On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 2:22 AM, Trent Waddington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 8:24 PM, Vladimir Nesov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Current AIs learn chess without engaging in social activities ;-). >> And chess might be a good drosophila for AI, if it's treated as such ( >> http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/chess.html ). >> This was uncalled for. > > No, they don't. > > How to evaluate the board position is programmed into them. How to > prune the search space is programmed into them. > > Current chess playing programs don't learn how to play chess at all. >
If you consider programming an AI social activity, you very unnaturally generalized this term, confusing other people. Chess programs do learn (certainly some of them, and I guess most of them), not everything is hardcoded. -- Vladimir Nesov [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://causalityrelay.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=117534816-b15a34 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
