Re: How much intelligence?


Glen M. Sizemore wrote:
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Curt Welch wrote:

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If we can't find the machine, and the learning
algorithm to shape it, then we can't do it.
But that's not why people reject the idea that
Language can be learned by reinforcement.
They reject it because they simply don't
understand the true power of reinforcement
learning to shape complex behavior. They just
don't understand reinforcement learning.

Reinforcement learning is well understood.

The processes involved in real reinforcement learning (perhaps that's not
what you are talking about?), as currently understood are so vast that no
one person is an expert in every area. Further, no one involved in the
science will say that these processes are understood in any kind of complete
sense - that's why there is still a lot of ongoing research. Perhaps you
meant that the silly toy misrepresentations of these processes are well
understood by those that misrepresented the processes in the first place.

Perhaps you had better explain all this to Curt? Is his version
a silly toy misrepresentation? Implied in his statement that they
just don't understand reinforcement learning is that he does.
What area of RL is he an expert in?

--
JC

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