Re: Expert Systems: Is Human Competence Relevant?

The range of frequence is infinite.
A one-variable blackbox with a complete test suite will take infinite
time to teste it.

Most of "black boxes" of programming envolves dozens of variables,
altougth in binnary world there is no infinite, the possible number of
combinations of inputs and outputs turn's almost impossible to test all
the scenarios.

However, the black box concept apply where your problem is too complex
to be understood... for that we have genetic programming, neural
networks, decison tres and lots and lots of data classification
algorithms.

The real question is not to make the black box...
but put it into a context. The research part someone talked about.

A black box generator does not consist in a AI and does not take us
much more close to self-programming computers.

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However, I do believe that in AI.

I also have a long thread on another forum stating that it any kind of
higher inteligence will have feeling-like behavior.
Computers will be another form of life, like us... speaking, walking,
if we decide to build them.

But jeffs, getting back in the subject... even a AI Humanoid or
Specialist System will not able to do ** everything *** only what is
programmed to do ... and only what learn to do ... as us humans. Which
means that C3P0 can't pilot a starship, while R2D2 can. They are both
robots, specialist systems, but with different funcionalities.

Of course, small things like making the machines we have today more
complete is the natural step. Once we have the technology to do that,
we will say the destination and the machines will take us there...
there is no piloting, no skill envolved...
unless...of course... they broke... but I believe it will be a small
machine specialized on fixing the ship on the thrunk.

But the limitations could be ... the range.... and the area... it is
reasonable to assume that cheaper autopilots will serve only the
regions covered and well mapped througth GPS (for example).... so...
..the limitation can be that the plain malfunctioned.... and does not
know how to leave the island, simple becose its path is not mapped.

And of course, once the machines pilot themselves with a very good
skill.... there will be no human controls... and so... no human can
pilot the ship... unlesss..... it can rewire it.

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