Hi Chirag, I think a lot of us look forward to a future with truly intelligent machines. Perhaps they'll beat us at basketball, perhaps not ;). But the truth is that we're a long way from that at this point. NuPIC, for example, is currently only modeling a very small sliver of one layer of the neocortex. As we build up this technology, the future holds very interesting developments for us. Also, as we understand more about how the brains works, it opens up more an more doors for us to reverse engineer it into software. It will be an interesting place here on Earth in another 20 years.
At our first hackathon, we had a hacker teach NuPIC how to plan a game of tic-tac-toe (http://numenta.org/blog/2013/06/25/hackathon-outcome.html#tom). So we are all thinking along similar lines. We're definitely looking for a compelling sample application for NuPIC to showcase its capabilities, so I suggest you read through our mailing list archive and our hackathon reports to see if you can learn more about what NuPIC can currently do. Let us know if you have any ideas for an interesting app we can build as a sample to draw in more contributors. That would be the best place you could help at this point. Searchable mailing list archives: http://nupic.markmail.org/ Last hackathon: http://numenta.org/blog/2013/11/06/2013-fall-hackathon-outcome.html Thanks for your thoughts, --------- Matt Taylor OS Community Flag-Bearer Numenta On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 6:36 PM, Chirag <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > My name is Chirag. I joined this group recently and am actually quite > excited about it. I think this is absolutely the right approach to > developing AI. My primary profession is another field but I am pretty > certain that AI will change the future. So I feel that by joining and > contributing to this group is the best thing I can do for myself (fairly > selfish view of life, I know). Given other obligations, I have limited time > to contribute fully right now but I think I can contribute via my > imagination and questions of what AI products could or should be created in > the future. Below our some questions I have. *Please let me know if I am > thinking about the end game of true artificial intelligence correctly or am > I selling AI short and there is more it will be able to do.* > > *Thinking part:* > When I immigrated to US as a youth, I had to learn a lot of > different thing. I learned to speak English, pass school, play basketball > and to buy appropriately styled clothes in the new culture(aka baggy pant > etc). As a youth, I picked all these things up very quickly and my teacher > said that I was smart to be able to pick up all cultural and academic > knowledge in such a short-time. I think fear of not fitting in forced me to > learn these things in a very short amount of time. But in any case, I was > able to fool the world so to speak by imitating mostly. So for me one mark > of intelligence is ability to learn anything/everything (via > imitation/practice) out of fear of not fitting in. I am pretty certain AI > products in future will contain these criterias of "What is not fitting > in". I can delve into that later. > > *Questioning part:* > So I think the question I have is > > Can the intelligent learning algorithms be used to learn anything? > > I think the simplest test can be > can it learn to play Tic/Tac/Toe on its own (via trial/error/prediction)? > and then can it play against me or a simulated computer? > can it learn to play any given video game for that matter? > Particularly, > Can it learn how to play need for speed or any racing games? > > *Product part:* > If our AI algorithms can learn to play video games (via > trial/error/predictions), it can likely play the games in physical world > too. > > Can the learning algorithm learn to drive a car (it's a game really, with > fitting in criteria)? > If it's figured out how to drive a car, can it pick me up at a given > location at a given time? > Can it learn to ride a bike? > Can it learn to use a scateboard to get around? > > *My favorite AI product of the future*: > A self learning robot which has figured how to play basketball. It can > play against you or with you as part of a team (in real life). I am pretty > certain this is the future we're headed towards at least of Artificially > intelligent gaming. > > > > Best Rgds, > Chirag > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Chirag > > _______________________________________________ > nupic mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.numenta.org/mailman/listinfo/nupic_lists.numenta.org > >
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