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Re: To create a super-intelligent machine, start with an equation

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Post by jkarni »

dwaltrip wrote: post #72
chongli wrote: post #39

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Yeah. Try sticking a more abstract game like Go in front of a random person and see how that works out. Without being taught the rules, a human will have absolutely no idea how to proceed. This would put a human in pretty much the same boat as a computer.

Secure the largest amount of territory and capture enemy groups? Seems pretty human :p

Not to Edward Lasker: "The rules of go are so elegant, organic and rigorously logical that if intelligent life forms exist elsewhere in the universe they almost certainly play go."

Re: To create a super-intelligent machine, start with an equation

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ccozan wrote: post #28

I highly recommend Markus Hutter's book: "Universal Artificial Intelligence: Sequential Decisions Based On Algorithmic Probability" ( http://www.amazon.com/Universal-Artificial-Intelligence-Algo... ) Beware, you need some serious maths and a board to follow him. In the end the book is quite rewarding. Now to AIXI: I don't belive that having a formula solves AI problem. Yes you can model it, but in real environment, I…

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Re: To create a super-intelligent machine, start with an equation

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Post by chongli »

dwaltrip wrote: post #72
chongli wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah. Try sticking a more abstract game like Go in front of a random person and see how that works out. Without being taught the rules, a human will have absolutely no idea how to proceed. This would put a human in pretty much the same boat as a computer.

Secure the largest amount of territory and capture enemy groups? Seems pretty human :p

You got all that from looking at a 19x19 grid?

Re: To create a super-intelligent machine, start with an equation

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Post by yetanotherphd »

dinkumthinkum wrote: post #76
yetanotherphd wrote: post #63

For those having trouble getting past the hype to the actual content of AIXI, lesswrong has a nice article [1]. From the article: "The AIXI formalism says roughly to consider all possible computable models of the environment, Bayes-update them on past experiences, and use the resulting updated predictions to model the expected sensory reward of all possible strategies." I will add that the prior over models comes fro…

I don't recommend reading anything on that website. That way madness lies.

I don't read lesswrong, but this article is worthy on its own merits. No memetic hazards are lurking in that particular article :-)

Re: To create a super-intelligent machine, start with an equation

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Post by vikiomega9 »

valtron wrote: post #51

Like others have said, this seems to be a generalization of the problem of reinforcement learning. For a good introduction to the subject, check out Reinforcement Learning by Sutton & Barto [1]. After reading the first few chapters, you'll be able to understand most of that equation. [1] http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~sutton/book/the-book.html

Yep, Hutter's website provides this book as reading material and to build up to the whole idea.

Re: To create a super-intelligent machine, start with an equation

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Post by 3rd3 »

Houshalter wrote: post #65
3rd3 wrote: post #32

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I like computational intelligence since we still don’t really know what intelligence is and whether our kind of intelligence can be reproduced artificially (although there are some hints that it can be done).

Ok there's no conclusive proof yet as no one has been able to do it yet, but as far as I know no one actually debates this anymore. It would be incredibly surprising, to say the least, if the brain turned out to work completely outside the known laws of physics.

We don't know whether physical reactions in our brains allow for and depend on calculation using real numbers, which can only be approximated using our current computing technology.

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Post by JohnHaugeland »

maaku wrote: post #69
SeanLuke wrote: post #64

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No. There is a perfectly good term which has been around for a very long time: Strong AI. In no context does this mean "ML + NLP" (which, by the way, AI itself hardly means). I think terms like AGI are just rebranding.

I don't think strong AI has quite the history you think it does. It's one of these later coinages. Also, it has separate quasi-related meanings in philosophy of the mind...

Strong AI is one of those hand-wavey things that makes you sound like you're talking about something well defined, when you actually aren't. Has always struck me as counter-productive.

Frustrating stuff.

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