Shane Legg wrote:
Would the following be possible with your notion of intelligence:
There is a computer system that does a reasonable job of solving
some optimization problem. We go along and keep on plugging
more and more RAM and CPUs into the computer. At some point
the algorithm sees that it has enough resources to always solve
the problem perfectly through brute force search and thus drops
its more efficient but less accurate search strategy.
As the system is now solving the optimization problem in a much
simpler way (brute force search), according to your perspective it
has actually become less intelligent?
It has become more powerful and less intelligent, in the same way that
natural selection is very powerful and extremely stupid.
--
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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