On Jun 11, 2008, at 5:56 AM, Mark Waser wrote:
It is an open question as to whether or not mathematics will arrive
at an elegant solution that out-performs the sub-optimal wetware
algorithm.
What is the basis for your using the term sub-optimal when the
question is still open? If mathematics can't arrive at a solution
that out-performs the wetware algorithm, then the wetware isn't
suboptimal.
Lack of an elegant solution, one that is more efficient than the
wetware methods in the broadest general case, does not imply that
mathematics does not already describe superior average case methods.
Wetware methods are general, but tend toward brute-force search
methods that can be improved upon. A number of recent papers suggest
that an elegant, general solutions may be possible; it is an active
area of DARPA-funded theoretical mathematics research.
None of which has anything to do with AI, except to the extent AI may
involve efficiently manipulating models of spaces.
Sloppy thinking and hidden assumptions as usual . . . .
The irony is rich.
J. Andrew Rogers
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