No examples of these miracle sub-progs? Wotta surprise.

AI-ers generally abuse the word “novel” in their descriptions of what their 
programs can do – so much so  that the hype has become almost reflex. But these 
progs  never do meet true novel challenges. 

Ben made a similar claim to yours not so long ago re some kind of common 
mapping program. On analysis, he had to agree that it was not capable of 
finding new paths or territory it had not been primed to look for;. On 
analysis, these novel claims are always B.S.

From: Jim Bromer 
Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2012 9:17 PM
To: AGI 
Subject: Re: [agi] Internal Representation

On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Mike Tintner <[email protected]> wrote:


  You can only have an algo for a journey if you have already made the journey, 
and can predict the territory, – and have a route[s]-map. (That incl. “ 
replotting alternative ways of getting there” after meeting unforeseen 
obstacles). By extension, you can only have problems of complexity if you 
already have a known set of possible journeys/route-maps to consider (a la 
Travelling Salesman Problem)..
  That’s why algos only work in artificial controlled environments like 
factories, labs and warehouses, which are fully known and have been 
artificially structured to be predictable..


Sub programs are able to operate to deal with novel situations like finding new 
paths through territory which wasn't fully known pr artificially structured to 
be predictable.
Jim Bromer
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