timtyler comments on Open Thread June 2010, Part 3 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: timtyler 15 June 2010 09:05:43PM *  2 points [-]

Re: "What does an average AI prof know that a physics graduate who can code doesn't know? I'm struggling to name even one thing. If you set the two of them to code AI for some competition like controlling a robot, I doubt that there would be much advantage to the AI guy."

A very odd opinion. We have 60 years of study of the field, and have learned quite a bit, judging by things like the state of translation and speech recognition.