Rethinking artificial intelligence

Post by Confusion » Tue, Dec 08, 2009, 12:32 PM UTC

yafujifide wrote: post #35

horseass wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How dictionaries circularly define words using other words, and how humans might learn by progressively expanding analogies starting with simple 'axioms' of body sensations like up vs. down (more on other pages): http://members.cox.net/deleyd/politics/cogsci5.htm

Wow, these three comments have just mirrored my own recent thoughts to the greatest extent I can remember. I present to you the Infinite Curiosity Loop: http://funnylogic.com/times/txt/2009-11-infinite-curiosity-l... And for what it's worth, the definition of intelligence has been on my mind a lot.

If you'd like to explore this subject in a structured way, then there's a large library of philosophical writings on the subject :). I think Hilary Putnam's essay on "Brains in a vat"[1] may be a nice starting point, from which can explore both earlier and later work.

[1] http://evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com/putnam05.htm

Post by Tim_M » Sun, Dec 13, 2009, 9:06 PM UTC

Confusion wrote: post #16

coffeemug wrote: post #11

I always welcome ambitious goals - the fact that a problem has not been solved for half a century is absolutely no reason to call it quits. However, in the interest of spending money wisely, it's worth it to at least sit back for a moment and think about what went wrong before, and what we can do to steer ourselves towards the right path. The article mentions revisiting fundamental assumptions, but doesn't mention a…

For one, to do things differently, I'd start without trying to define 'intelligence'. Nobody can define what a game is and still we learn, understand and say plenty of interesting things about games. Nobody can you define 'water' in a way that captures all the mental images people have when they hear that word and still we can say lots of relevant things about water. Trying to capture something like 'intelligence' wi…

intelligence is how great our ability to predict is according to this talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/jeff_hawkins_on_how_brain_...

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