Re: What is missing from AI ?




"JGCASEY" <jgkjcasey@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> Curt Welch wrote:
....
>> And any "goals" it seems to have, is just a
>> description of how it acts when it is turned on.
>> In general, the default behavior is to produce
>> all behaviors equally.
>
> But it doesn't produce all behaviors equally. It has
> its own internal emergent behaviors which make some
> i/o actions impossible and some almost a guarantee.
>
> Mind you I think a lot of the brains behavior
> is emergent in nature and *relies* on this being
> the case.
>
>
>> It's just as likely to send a pulse to the
>> "raise arm" output as it is to send a pulse to
>> the "lower arm" output. The odds of it sending
>> 100 pulses in a row the "raise arm" output is
>> very very small. But if you wait long enough,
>> it will happen.
>
> If this is how the brain worked it would never
> have had time to become intelligent. There are
> mechanisms and algorithms that evolution must
> have "discovered" that allow brains to quickly
> home in on a solution.

Although RL is an observed reality during the short life span of
individual organisms, it is mere speculation that this phonmenon is the
main evolutional engine spanning millions of years. I think a lot more
is "given" than "learned".


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