As long as we're on AI and Math (whenever were we not) , recall that
the hard problems in AI are less matters of chess and more those of the
first five years of development. Here are some mathematicians
discussing same - Interesting to see how the conversation
unfolds.....got some Category Theory in thar too!
http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2009/12/can_fiveyearolds_compute_copro.html
Maybe we should be asking Miles and Reed about AI fundamentals.
BTW, does anyone have a copy of Drew McDermott's Critique of Pure
Reason, (ie a crisp semantics does not a logic make) which is in part a
critique of the Naive Physics Manifesto?
carl
Robert J. Cordingley wrote:
More on non-algorithmic computing from Penrose:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor's_New_Mind
but I don't see how the brain can use quantum mechanics since it's
biochemical and operates on a different scale. Has anyone read
Penrose's book and can recommend it or not (even tho' it was awarded a
prize by the Royal Society)?
Robert C
Robert J. Cordingley wrote:
Didn't it take an algorithm (an Inference Engine) to process the
heuristics? Also show me some silicon that doesn't use an algorithm
somewhere. So do you suppose the Mind Machine Project is a way to
break free of this computing/algorithmic model?
Robert C
Pamela McCorduck wrote:
Most of early AI was heuristics, not algorithms. Some
algorithms were incorporated into expert systems, in the belief that if
an algorithm could solve the problem, fine; if not, heuristics might.
But it was always *might*. True, computers can't solve all problems,
neither can humans.
P.
"A cold coming we had of it,
Just the worst time of the year
For a journey, and such a long journey;
The ways deep and the weather sharp.
The very dead of winter."
T.S.
Eliot
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