On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 03:18:02PM +0100, Russell Wallace wrote: > It won't. Uncertainty is a necessary part of life in the real world; formal > logic just isn't a powerful enough tool by itself to deal with it.
Yeah, current systems which rely on proofs can't prove their way out of a paper bag. Natural intelligence is about making realtime decisions from incomplete, partially incorrect, noisy data. A lot of neural crunch in the processing pipeline (which is not really a strictly linear pipeline) is dedicated to extract higher-order representation. I don't think you can build a domain-specific yet an all-purpose intelligence. If you've been raised on reading text streams it won't help you much to navigate physical reality. Don't diss DARPA's Grand Challenge, this is where real AI work is. > Our intuitions have evolved over millions of years of testing; while > necessarily imperfect, they're proven powerful enough for survival, at > least. I expect any successful AGI will have to adopt those intuitions or Biology evolved all-purpose processing hardware, especially recently (neocortex). It can remap itself to fill in damage in older, specialized areas if lesioned. So it may be enough if you can reverse-engineer the neocortex -- of course, including its development, where lots of action occurs. > something similar to them, at least for awhile. Ultimately it may start > developing its own, better intuitions; but I see that as something for the > far future, beyond our prediction horizon. By definition, if AIs walk the Earth and roam the space, it's no longer our planet as we know it. > (An aside on the original topic: if you look at Marc's posts for the last > few years, the main thing wrong with them has been too much drift into > philosophy and intuition away from hard data and formal reasoning; so in > fairness, this switch to overemphasis on rigor, while not absolutely true, > may be something he needs to do at the moment.) -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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