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I thought AI was about one algorithm or something like that could do general thinking like a human. Its like you recognize images, characters, speech and then?
by kamaal 13y ago
I thought AI was about one algorithm or something like that could do general thinking like a human. Its like you recognize images, characters, speech and then? What will you do with that?
Of course you could argue a child can detect a cat is cat only because someone taught the child so. But the point is a human baby left in the jungle right after it was born without any outside help can do a lot of intelligent things. Can a machine do the same?
- arethuza 13y ago"I thought AI was about one algorithm or something like that could do general thinking like a human." I think that was the view until the early 90s or so (although this may be popular again - AI research does seem rather cyclical) - encode a sufficiently rich database of "knowledge" fire up your "inference engine" and general intelligence results. What "knowledge" you need to bootstrap an intelligence, how to represent it and what "inference engine" to use being the source of much debate (and even more funding). This didn't really deliver an awful lot - so things like multi-agent systems and neural network became popular (or in the case of neural networks, became popular again).