Re: How much intelligence?


Curt Welch wrote:
"JGCASEY" <jgkjca...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Imitation is more complex than it looks.


Or, Language behavior can be made to look
more complex than it is.


To quote from "The Blank Slate" by Steven Pinker:
Chpt4 Culture Vultures:

".. the robot has to be equipped with an ability
to see into the mind of the person being imitated,
so that it can infer the person's goals and pick
out the aspects of behavior that the person
intended to achieve the goal."


It's true that people can do this. But it's also
true that behavior like that is easilly explained
in terms of reinforcement learning. All langauge
behavior is easilly explained in terms of
reinforcement learning.

It depends what counts as an "explanation". If you
think RL easily explains language acquisition you
need to give a demonstration, you need to spell it
out, not just imagine it happening.

Another example Pinker makes reference to is the
imitative behavior of chimpanzee. One example was
a chimp that seemed to imitate the washing of
dishes but the dish wasn't necessarily any cleaner
after imitating the rubbing motion and this is
apparently typical. The chimp did not twig to the
purpose or goal of rubbing the dish was to clean it.


Autistic people apparently have a similar problem.


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JC

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