Comment on Open Thread: July 2009

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 11:49:30 GMT

So what? If you get killed by an uFAI, you cannot appeal to reality and say "but the AI just used a brute-force search method with some minor algorithmic optimizations to prune the search space, together with enormous databases of weapons technology and science", so can you please unkill me?

The problem domain of chess happens to be one where brute-force search with some clever tricks actually works. Other domains are less like this, such as allowing a robot to walk (Asimo, Big Dog), where researchers are using other, more appropriate techniques such as machine learning.

What is your criterion for

deserve to be called intelligent

anyway?

Discuss