Physicist proposes new way to think about intelligence
insidescience.org
Physicist proposes new way to think about intelligence
1–10 of 145 posts
Re: Physicist proposes new way to think about intelligence
#2Does anyone have an ungated copy of the paper?
Re: Physicist proposes new way to think about intelligence
#3Does anyone have an ungated copy of the paper?
Re: Physicist proposes new way to think about intelligence
#4Does anyone have an ungated copy of the paper?
Re: Physicist proposes new way to think about intelligence
#5http://www.entropica.com/ has a very nice, short, video demonstrating the AI.
Re: Physicist proposes new way to think about intelligence
#6Very interesting. The big idea, as I see it, is that intelligent systems try to maintain as many possible futures as they can - to keep their options open.
People often think that all living beings are driven by the need to reproduce, but the need to survive - to maintain homeostasis, to keep one's shape in a complex environment - is even more fundamental, I think.
If you extend the idea of living beings attempting to keep their own metabolism and structure fixed, you realise that if they have the capability, they'll also try and keep their environment fixed.
Re: Physicist proposes new way to think about intelligence
#7This is fascinating. It proposes that intelligence is about maximizing the control we have over future events, ie maximize the entropy of the system. Intuitively this aligns well with how I think about many strategic options or inflections in life/business - you try to take the path which maximizes future options. Lots of interesting applications, will be interested to see how well they manage to communicate this work across different disciplines.
Re: Physicist proposes new way to think about intelligence
#8Re: Physicist proposes new way to think about intelligence
#9This is a lot like the "efficient cross-domain optimization" definition from Eliezer Yudkowsky. It looks like they even use the same information-theoretic measure of optimization power across the distribution of possible futures. http://lesswrong.com/lw/vb/efficient_crossdomain_optimizatio...
Re: Physicist proposes new way to think about intelligence
#10I'm surprised they got through the whole article without mentioning Nietzsche's der Wille zur Macht (will to power), which seems to be qualitatively identical (or at least very similar) to this proposal. Not bad for a philosopher from the 1800s.