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I think the whole field of AI research lost credibility back when ANNs couldn't do XOR and therefore where not turing-complete. That is now solved and AI resear
by growt 17y ago
I think the whole field of AI research lost credibility back when ANNs couldn't do XOR and therefore where not turing-complete.
That is now solved and AI research is slowly gaining momentum again.
Also I think Kurzweil (and others like him) are a huge distraction. They mystify AI as something powerful, unpredictable and maybe harmful. But it's just a way of applying stochastics to computational problems. In other words: using guessing to solve complex problems.
Thats all just my personal point of view of course.
- joe_the_user 17y agoI don't think that the idea that once computers reach a certain level, they can be used to build more powerful computers should be discounted. If you define "the singularity" in this fashion, you don't need any concept of consciousness but you have to admit that there will be issues. Similarly, once there are robots that, say, guided by a few people, can take on many, many people in a conventional or irregular army, on a real battle field, then you'll have a situation which will influence real social and political decisions. You could call that "the singularity" too. And since these and other issues are approach, I Kurzweil does us a service point it out even if many of his formulations are indeed crude and simplistic.
- joe_the_user 17y agoHmm, Could you give some references on this?