On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 05:14:46PM -0400, Brad Wyble wrote: > Another point to this discussion is that the problems of AI and cognitive > science are unsolvable by a single person. 1 brain can't understand > itself, but perhaps 10,000 brains can understand or design 1 brain.
Intelligence is not necessary to create intelligence. Case in point: us. The evolutionary process is a simple algorithm. > Therefore, these sciences depend on the interaction of communities of > scientists in a way that the physical sciences do not. AI is pretty physical. It's not a mathematical, or a logical problem. It's pretty close to a large-scale numerics problem. > And for this interaction to succeed, you need simplicity of theory above > all else, because the individual agents in the discipline need to be able > to communicate efficiently with one another, and that's the biggest > bottleneck in the scientific process. > > So unless one lone researcher can solve the problem in isolation, and it > is a mathematical fact that this is impossible, their long years of toil > will be in vain unless the ideas can be communicated. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE http://moleculardevices.org http://nanomachines.net ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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