From: Matt Mahoney (matmahoney@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Nov 30 2009 - 18:52:54 MST
Natasha wrote:
> Do you think that AI has or can have goals?
A "goal" is a convenient way to describe an optimization process, but not the only way to describe programs in general. Does a linear regression program have the "goal" of fitting a straight line to a set of points? Does a thermostat "want" to keep the room at a constant temperature? Do individual neurons have goals?
It is my opinion that AI will emerge from the internet as a huge collection of narrow specialists and a distributed index for routing messages to the right experts. In http://mattmahoney.net/agi2.html I describe the goals of its human builders, but the AI itself is not described in terms of having goals.
-- Matt Mahoney, matmahoney@yahoo.com
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From: "natasha@natasha.cc" <natasha@natasha.cc>
To: sl4@sl4.org; John K Clark <johnkclark@fastmail.fm>
Cc: sl4 sl4 <sl4@sl4.org>
Sent: Mon, November 30, 2009 5:35:13 PM
Subject: Re: [sl4] Re: goals of AI
Quick question:
Do you think that AI has or can have goals? (Or are you saying that you are presuppoing goals for AI which are not AI's decided/determined goals?)
Natasha
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