"Algorithms are very intelligent" is sorta like "Systems of nonlinear differential equations are good at flying" ;-p ...
Algorithms are mathematical abstractions, that can be used to guide development of software or hardware operating specific systems, which can then be set loose to interact with the world in various ways... The algorithms aren't intelligent, but system designed based on algorithms may in some cases be intelligent.. -- Ben G On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 9:04 PM, Mike Tintner <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, everyone here thinks that algorithms are v. intelligent - if not now, > then soon, with a little scaling and more sophisticated heuristics. Just a > bit more of the same, old. > > I agree that they are only slavish routines (no matter how complex) and will > never be more than a hyperspecialist form of low-level intelligence. But you > haven't persuaded me (or I suspect anyone else) that you're actually > offering anything different - not even *conceptually.* You *sound* like Pei > who was - perhaps still is - offering a "non-algorithmic" form of logic - > except that it turned out, when you pressed him, to be just another > algorithm after all. > > Perhaps there are others like y'all, recognising the limits of algo's, but > trying for magic sauce solutions. > > -------------------------------------------------- > From: "Sergio Pissanetzky" <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, July 16, 2012 1:51 PM > To: "AGI" <[email protected]> > > Subject: RE: [agi] Analog Computation > >> Alan, >> >> That's nonsense. A camera, or a person, can look at a black and white >> scene, >> light-on or light-off. A person will still recognize the image. How? You >> can't tell. You can only write a monstruous program that will do nothing >> but >> what you teach it to do. And you can't improve on that. Your robots are >> clumsy, and you can't improve on that. Your chess-playing machine can't >> play >> checkers, and can't even learn how. You need a human to improve on that. >> You >> can't do OO-analysis, you need a human to do that. Your semantic web ... >> where is it? You can't integrate systems, you need a human to do that. >> This >> is an AGI blog, and writing program is not AGI, it is using human slaves >> to >> row. >> >> Sergio >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Alan Grimes [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2012 5:46 PM >> To: AGI >> Subject: Re: [agi] Analog Computation >> >> Sergio Pissanetzky wrote: >>> >>> I'll use a camera instead of the retina. When light hits a pixel in >>> that camera, an electric signal is produced and travels to the brain, >>> I mean the computer. That's it, that's the causal relation, light + >>> pixel (and the pixel has a position, which is how spatial information >>> gets encoded) cause signal. Multiply that by 1 million pixels, and you >>> have a big causal set. From the signals alone, you can't tell that the >>> camera is looking at your mother's face (in Hofstadter's words). But >>> if you display the signals on a screen, your brain will immediately >>> recognize the image. That's EI. I did it on a small scale on my PC, >>> and I now want to do it on a larger scale. >> >> >> Do you have ANY idea how cameras work? >> >> For every pixel, for every scan interval, the sensor will be affected by >> tens of thousands to millions of photons... >> >> What you get is a number. Typically, in most applications between 0 and >> 255. >> We can abstract that to some floating point value between 0 and 1 where 0 >> is >> almost no light and 1 is sensor saturation. >> >> You are given a matrix of these, We will assume perfect pixels that are >> vertically aligned and there are no sensor artifacts. >> >> Your AI must find and encode the simplest possible theory of what objects >> must exist out in the world to have excited the sensors on your camera in >> such a way. >> >> That is visual perception. >> >> I'm getting sick and tired of reading this ignorant crap out of you. 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