(March 23, 2016 at 2:38 pm)Mathilda Wrote: Could you explain what you mean by describing it as a heuristic capability rather than intelligence? Surely any heuristics would either be evolved or learned through intelligence?Only that learning for oneself is a consequence of a number of facets of intelligence (e.g. memory, emotional development, resilience...).
Quote:I think debating whether it's a causal measure rather than an emergent property sends us down a never ending rabbit hole of definitions and am not sure why the distinction needs to be made.And that's fair enough. In practical terms, one's heuristic capability gives insight into levels of intelligence i.e. one who shows high levels of capability is likely to score highly in base measures of intelligence. It's interesting to understand the hierarchy of the facets of intelligence though I'm not going to get stuck in an argument about what comes before what when the applications are even more interesting!
Quote:Most AI research shies away from adapting to sequences because the search space explodes exponentially. Just talking about temporal sequence learning is a very vague term in itself, which is what I tried to get across with all the examples I gave. You do get a few examples in the literature though but they are limited in scope and application.And that's curious because the human brain is very good at it without needing masses of processing power. It seems to be the categorisation & organisation of information that's the key although we're only beginning to unlock how the brain does that. It's not surprising that we can't yet translate that in to practical developments in AI.
Sum ergo sum
