markan

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by markan 9y ago
If you're talking about human-level intelligence, I think you're on to something. Old-fashioned AI was probably closer to the right track than we are now. > did attempts to generalize some of that research fail because the app
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by markan 9y ago
> There’s a funny blog post somewhere about the idea of a computer writing superhuman-level funny jokes; I wish I remembered where! Maybe this one? http://idlewords.com/talks/superintelligence.htm
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by markan 9y ago
Not the GP, but some examples are: (1) how do you get a computer to have a human-like train of thought? (2) how do you get a computer to acquire new concepts (e.g. "debt", "global warming", "weed") and then rea
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by markan 9y ago
Totally agree with you. You might be interested in basicai.org. We're trying to address those big fundamental problems you reference.
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by markan 9y ago
None of the problems you mention is actually solved though. They're all things that work sort of, some of the time, with caveats about how you define "work." They work well enough to be useful, but not well enough to argue
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by markan 9y ago
Yes and no. For safety of narrow AI systems, yeah, there's a lot of scope for research, and that's what your first link gets at. But for AGI (which is what Tegmark talks about), there's no good way to get a handle on safety
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by markan 9y ago
Yes, this is the problem with AI risk---there's a community pushing hard to gather resources to the cause, but little or no scientific work to be done. This is a rather pathological situation---among other things, the AI risk communit
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by markan 9y ago
An interesting read, but the conclusion that "the singularity is nowhere near" was reached by assuming that only neural modeling could get us there, and that assumption wasn't defended well. (In fact it looks rather dubious,
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by markan 9y ago
I second this recommendation! Here's some more reading for anyone interested in Hofstadter: http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a3278/why-watson-and... http://www.basicai.org/blog/ho
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by markan 9y ago
Great quote from Hinton. The biggest deficiency in AI is that we still don't have artificial systems which simulate human thought with any fidelity. Sooner or later that's bound to become a focus of attention.
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by markan 9y ago
The presentation briefly mentioned simulating the brain, but I think what's more likely to succeed is mimicking the mind at a high level of abstraction (i.e. a level we can study with introspective or even linguistic methods rather tha
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by markan 9y ago
Eventually I think AI safety will be solved through some mixture of design choices, supervision/monitoring, and human-administered "incentives" for good behavior (not unlike the reward signals in reinforcement learning). But
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by markan 16y ago
Exactly. The closest thing to a mathematical definition of intelligence is probably Marcus Hutter's AIXI model ( http://www.hutter1.net/ai/uaibook.htm ). But it's not widely accepted and not practical to measure.
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by markan 16y ago
My impression is that time banks are local. Is there some sort of central website you can use for time banking? Besides that, Goodwillbank is set up for exchanging time in ratios other than 1:1. What went wrong with your barter system? I
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3 points by markan 16y ago|5 comments
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by markan 17y ago
You might find this list helpful: http://markan.net/agilinks.html