On 10/27/07, Lan Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, October 27, 2007 10:43 am, Darren New wrote: > > Chuck Esterbrook wrote: > >> here is some neat stuff about AI today: > > > > Does the "AI" in games count? Or is it still only stuff that doesn't > > work that gets counted as "AI"? > > > > There are some pretty sophisticated behaviors in modern gaming enemies. > > > > I used to dabble in AI, and remember a wonderful quote, although I can't > attribute it. "Whenever AI works, it stops being AI and becomes 'advanced > computing'."
I consider people to have general intelligence. As an example of what general intelligence can do, I can teach a person how to play chess by giving them instructions and examples. Furthermore, they can improve their game skill independent of me. But that's not all. When I teach them another 2-player, open information, deterministic game like checkers or go, they will learn such a game faster due to having learned chess. The cog sci folks call this transfer of learning. As if that weren't impressive enough, I can teach a person something entirely different, like driving a car. Even more impressive, they could even figure that out by themselves. Once a year I catch a news story about a grade school kid who joy rides his parents car or, in at least one case, heads for the candy store. **Even more impressive**, people exhibit meta-cognition which is the ability to think about themselves and to think about how they are thinking. This helps with problem solving and communication. The problem with AI-to-date is that it exhibits none of this (except self improvement in fixed/narrow domains). Deep Blue is a chess playing program. If you want it to play checkers you have to write almost all of the code from scratch and you must do so in a formal language as opposed to our natural, native tongue of English. I think advanced computing is great, but Deep Blue and other "AI" programs don't exhibit the capabilities that AI was originally aiming for: human-level, general purpose intelligence. -Chuck -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
