RE: The future of AI?
March 28, 2016 at 12:21 pm
(This post was last modified: March 28, 2016 at 12:23 pm by I_am_not_mafia.)
(March 28, 2016 at 12:08 pm)IATIA Wrote:(March 28, 2016 at 7:31 am)Mathilda Wrote: Or drowning in a very cold lake? Or has its wrists slit in a very hot bath?
A good programmer can overcome all these difficulties and specifically addressing the above quote, if the robot is doing it's job, the above scenarios should not happen in the first place. And ultimately, in the end, shit just happens.
In which case it's not AI if you're having to rely on the programmer to specify everything. That's the point I am trying to demonstrate. Intelligence is the ability to adapt to an unknown environment, otherwise you might as well use a lookup table. But how do we design desirable ways to adapt if we ourselves cannot know every environment that the agent could find itself in? And there are too many to specify. Whatever situation you specifically handle there will be a myriad of exceptions. This in a nutshell is why the top down approach does not work and why AI stagnated for 30 years. This is why we use the bottom up approach and start with something simple situated in an environment letting it discover itself how to adapt. But what this means is that you cannot then apply Isaac Asimov's top down rules.
