zep15

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   by zep15 12y ago

   Reasoning means things like this: suppose you are holding a ball and want to make it drop. A rule of inference tells you that if you release it, it will drop. You can then reason out that you should release it. Sure, the rule of inference
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   by zep15 12y ago

   Producing a simulated toddler is way beyond our current capabilities, no matter how much simulated experience we give it. We simply don't know (yet) how to program said toddler's brain.
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   by zep15 12y ago

   Do many "otherwise smart" people actually believe "superhuman machine intelligence is prima facie ridiculous"? I'd like to see some citations :-). I think smart people tend to have much more nuanced views.
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   by zep15 12y ago

   I find it odd that AI risk has become such a hot topic lately. For one, people are getting concerned about SMI at a time when research toward it is totally stalled---and I say that as someone who believes SMI is possible. Stuff like deep
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   by zep15 12y ago

   I think there's some truth to what you say about Chomskyan linguistics being dogmatic. But linguists aren't really playing the same game as the people in (e.g.) statistical machine translation, so it's hard to say the latter