Re: The upper limit on the complexity of an algorithm that can learn to be intelligent

2017-06-10 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 2:09 AM, John Clark wrote: > On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 Telmo Menezes wrote: > > Thanks Telmo, very interesting post. > >> >> > >> It could also be that a complex kludge of 1Mb is beyond human >> >> cognitive power. In this case, I

Re: The upper limit on the complexity of an algorithm that can learn to be intelligent

2017-06-07 Thread John Clark
On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 Telmo Menezes wrote: ​Thanks Telmo, very interesting post.​ > ​> ​ > It could also be that a complex kludge of 1Mb is beyond human > ​ > cognitive power. In this case, I would say that our hope is to evolve > ​ > it somehow; > I agree that being a

Re: The upper limit on the complexity of an algorithm that can learn to be intelligent

2017-06-07 Thread Telmo Menezes
(Sorry for the bad formatting, gmail is getting worse at this. They must have sent all the smart people to the AlphaGO team..) > OK, lets > > put aside the question of > > consciousness and talk about intelligence. AI has made a lot of progress in > just the last few years, the most spectacular

The upper limit on the complexity of an algorithm that can learn to be intelligent

2017-06-06 Thread John Clark
Telmo Menezes wrote: > >> ​>​ >> all this hand wringing over consciousness is a waste of time because >> we already know as much as we're ever going to know about that. > > ​> ​ > Perhaps you're right, but on the other hand nobody is forcing you to have > the discussion.