On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 5:22 PM, Russell Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If we step back and think about it, we really knew this already. In > every case where humans, machines or biological systems exhibit > anything that could be called an intelligence improvement - biological > evolution, a child learning to talk, a scientific community improving > its theories, engineers building better aeroplanes, programmers > improving their software - it involves feedback from the environment. > The mistake of trying to reach truth by pure armchair thought was > understandable in ancient Greece. We now know better. >
We are very inefficient in processing evidence, there is "plenty of room at the bottom" in this sense alone. Knowledge doesn't come from just feeding the system with data - try to read machine learning textbooks to a chimp, nothing will stick. Intelligence is, among other things, an ability to absorb the data and use it to deftly manipulate the world to your ends, by nudging it here and there. -- Vladimir Nesov [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://causalityrelay.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=106510220-47b225 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
