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Interesting post. The way I look at it is from the perspective of a human baby. How do they become intelligent? They have the "sensors" to detect features and w
by yogo 13y ago
Interesting post. The way I look at it is from the perspective of a human baby. How do they become intelligent? They have the "sensors" to detect features and will be able to recognize their parents. A lot of things are then learned, like touching a hot stove and from getting a formal education. For a machine to be artificially intelligent it would have to learn from its environment but also take formal instruction. That seems like a lot of ground to cover and this is what makes it unrealistic (for now).
You can have a machine read every book in existence but how long will it take for it to understand in the same way a human reading a lot of books would need to understand it somehow.
- yogo 13y agoNot sure what set off the down votes but we can teach a computer to recognize characters for application in OCR. We also learned those characters from being taught in school and reading bad handwriting. We teach computers the same way. How are they supposed to magically recognize them especially since they didn't invent whatever language it is? Note that I'm referring to artificial general intelligence[0]. 0. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_general_intelligence http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_general_intelligence
- beat 13y agoThis was back in the 1990s, but I worked in what was basically a data entry company, where the processing was a mixture of scanned forms (Scantron style) and human key entry. The project I was on was image scanning the forms for other purposes, so we had a neural net handwriting recognition system that we were comparing to human key entry at a large scale - millions of documents. What we found was that human key entry significantly outperformed the neural nets, even when the data was carefully handwritten in constrained boxes. Humans were so far ahead of the heavily trained neural nets that the software was basically unusable at that point. Of course, that was nearly 20 years ago, and things have probably moved on quite a bit. But you can still see the basic problem in Captcha-style validation on web pages. Computers just can't be trained to recognize distorted text that humans can read pretty easily.
- chegra 13y agohttp://www.kurzweilai.net/vicarious-ai-breaks-captcha-turing-test http://www.kurzweilai.net/vicarious-ai-breaks-captcha-turing... I think they have done that.
- signa11 13y agoiirc, yann-lecun's conolutional neural nets already ouperform humans at mnist digit recognition, most us mail is auto sorted by those machines...
- dcre 13y agoAbsolutely. A newborn has all the "programming" necessary for intelligence, but isn't really intelligent until its parents teach it how to be human, and it grows up. How long might an AI take to grow up and what will its parents teach it?