> On 8 May 2019, at 21:55, 'Cosmin Visan' via Everything List > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Since evolution is the evolution of consciousness, I wasn't programmed, but > consciousness by itself solved new and never before seen problems without > anyone telling her what to do.
But machines can do that too. There is an entire field of theoretical computational Learning theory. Most result result are negative, in the sense that we cannot even compute the gain in learning abilities when we weaken the identification criteria (to solve the inference inductive aspect of learning). A good book, which requires a bit familiarity in Recursion theory, is OSHERSON D.N., STOB M.and WEINSTEIN S., 1986, Systems that Learn, MIT press. (There has been a new edition, with some more authors). My favorite papers in this field: CASE J., 1989, The Power of Vacillation, COLT '88, Proceedings of the 1988 Workshop on Computational Learning Theory, pp. 196-205. CASE J. & NGO-MANGUELLE S., 1979, Refinements of inductive inference by Popperian machines. Tech. Rep., Dept. of Computer Science, State Univ. of New-York, Buffalo. CASE J. & SMITH C., 1983, Comparison of Identification Criteria for Machine Inductive Inference. In Theoretical Computer Science 25,.pp 193-220. CASE J., CHEN K., JAIN S., 1992, Strong Separation of Learning Classes, in Jantke (Ed.) 1992. Bruno > > On Wednesday, 8 May 2019 00:06:39 UTC+3, Brent wrote: > > They are programmed in specific ways for learning...just like you were > programmed, by evolution, to learn a language. > > Brent > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list > <https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/fdbde99d-51ed-41ed-a280-4f0af034db0c%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/fdbde99d-51ed-41ed-a280-4f0af034db0c%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/BCA4D5FD-5EE8-499C-9424-0E32368BDF62%40ulb.ac.be. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
