Re: Towards true A.I.

Subject	Re: Towards true A.I.
From	curt@kcwc.com (Curt Welch)
Organization	NewsReader.Com
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Date	2012-04-05 01:00 +0000

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"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote:
> On 30 Mar 2012 15:56:05 GMT, Curt Welch wrote:
>
> > "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote:
> >>
> >> An intelligent system is able to maintain a model of the world in
> >> which things like relevance (as well as many other things) get
> >> defined. Unintelligent systems are bound to a method to measure
> >> relevance. An intelligent system does not need that, it already knows
> >> what is relevant, it is itself a measurement instrument.
> >
> > Unintelligent systems are bound to a method of measure relevance?  But
> > we are not?  That makes no sense to me at all.  The brain is very much
> > bound by genetics to it's innate measures of relevance.
>
> That is a theory, or rather a philosophical concept, which tells nothing
> about how intelligence works. Arguably, when (if) understood intelligence
> would become just another method.
>
> One way to define intelligence is as a way to solve problems, for which
> there is no "unintelligent" method known. Once method is found the
> problem is no more considered as requiring intelligence.
>
> > My brain is a reinforcement learning machine.
>
> It could be thought as such within certain model of intelligence. Alas,
> this model is as unproductive (weak? inadequate? wrong?) as any other.
>
> It is widely believed in that intelligence evolves "magically" per
> learning, once the structure of "brain" is set right, a damaging idea
> IMO. It is similar to the alchemists attempts to create gold.
>
> It is also interesting to observe that people who believe that
> intelligence is mechanical, is a kind of clockwork, also honestly believe
> that there is no better way to put the cogwheels in place than to kick
> the mechanism when it gives wrong answers. That would certainly rearrange
> the cogwheels properly...

It is also interesting to see how much ignorance there is in the world
about machine learning technology!  It has nothing to do with "kicking the
machine when it gives the wrong answer".  RL programs are continuous
optimization processes that learn with or without being "kicked".  Anyone
that thinks "reinforcement learning" just means "kicking the machine when
it gives the wrong answer" shows no understanding of the many subtle
complexities of the mathematics.

-- 
Curt Welch                                            http://CurtWelch.Com/
curt@kcwc.com                                        http://NewsReader.Com/

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