Here's Alex Wissner-Gross's TED presentation - on the "maximizing options" theory of intelligence and "Entropica".
"Alex Wissner-Gross: A new equation for intelligence" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue2ZEmTJ_Xo It seems as though this is a redefinition of intelligence. Intelligence, conventionally, involves a broad-spectrum ability at achieving goals. Keeping your options open seems more like a common instrumental value. Go and chess playing are not, in fact, about "keeping your options open". They are all about winning the game. If that involves eliminating future options and bringing the game to an end, so be it. I'm actually a fan of the idea of a strong link between entropy generation and intelligence. Rather ironically, I see the link as going the other way - at least most of the time. As intelligence systems evolved, they have got better and better at seeking out energy gradients and dissipating them. That's why we developed nuclear fission, for instance. Such behaviour doesn't "keep future options open" - rather it accelerates universal heat death. Intelligent systems might *sometimes* conserve energy resources - in the way that Wissner-Gross suggests - but it is much more common for them to burn through them and convert them into offspring - and in those few cases where resources are conserved, it is *usually* to burn through them only *slightly* later on. The "keeping your options open" theory of intelligence seems silly to me. I'm concerned that the real intelligence-entropy link will be polluted by association with this daft idea. -- __________ |im |yler http://timtyler.org/ [email protected] Remove lock to reply. ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
