"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 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 I don't think this statement is true at all. If it looks at a problem, and determines it can get a better answer by doing a brute force search, and can do it given time constraints, it has made a more intelligent decision, and will outperform the other process every time. The actual algorithm in this case is less intelligent, but the AI is more intelligent because it has 2 algorithms to use, and knows enough to choose in between them. This is similar to the sorting problem... depending on how large a list of items you have to sort, and whether they are partially sorted already a different algorithm can be chosen. And over time, if you knew exactly which one to choose, you would have better performance, and hence be smarter. James Ratcliff --------------------------------- Need a vacation? Get great deals to amazing places on Yahoo! Travel. ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=231415&user_secret=e9e40a7e
