If google is solving problems with super-scientists, why can't they explain how their AI works anymore? It would seem like AI is beyond humans now. I think we're too focused on DNA as a means of evolution, and there may be better ways of evolving AI the computer. On Jan 17, 2014 5:12 AM, "Chris Warburton" <chriswa...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Martin McClure <martin.mccl...@gemtalksystems.com> writes: > > > On 01/16/2014 10:58 AM, John Carlson wrote: > >> What I was thinking was evolving space travel. If it is a physics > >> engine, could it evolve warp drive? Rockets? > > > > It'd be fun to see rockets evolve. Should be possible; we understand the > > physics involved. Warp drive -- well, if we simulate a universe in which > > this works, it should be able to evolve. Or teleportation, etc... > > Even with a bug-free, sophisticated-enough Physics simulation, > completely open-ended evolution is incredibly inefficient. This issue > comes up in AI circles, where the question is 'we know that intelligence > can evolve, since ours did, so why not evolve our programs the same > way?'. > > The problem is that we took billions of years to emerge from a > planet-wide search algorithm; and even so, we're still just a random > anomaly (evolution isn't 'trying' to make intelligence). Simulating this > would take so many resources that you'd be better off simulating a > virtual human brain atom by atom, with enough resources to spare that > you could increase its neuron count and processing speed by many orders > of magnitude. > > A similar argument would apply here; if you want advanced technology, > the most efficient way to get it is to spend your resources thinking > about the problem. If you have enough computing capacity to simulate its > evolution, you'd be better off using it to simulate an army of > super-scientists. > > Evolution can be a good approach to very targeted problems with a few > degrees of freedom, but it's terrible at anything else. It's only > managed to solve the problems of life via the law of large numbers. > > Regards, > Chris > _______________________________________________ > fonc mailing list > fonc@vpri.org > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc >
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