IlyaShpitser comments on Some Heuristics for Evaluating the Soundness of the Academic Mainstream in Unfamiliar Fields - Less Wrong

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Comment author: IlyaShpitser 18 February 2011 07:58:27PM 3 points [-]

Modern AI is an odd combination of statistics, applied math, discrete math/combinatorics and logic. My theory is the only reason AI is a subfield of Computer Science at all is founder bias (Turing).

Comment author: Daniel_Burfoot 18 February 2011 09:24:07PM 1 point [-]

Totally agree. My slogan is that for AI to succeed it has to become an empirical science: it should use math, but only to the extent that the math is useful to describe reality. And it should be curiousity-driven and not application-driven like almost all modern research in computer vision and natural language processing.

Comment author: wedrifid 19 February 2011 02:49:04AM 1 point [-]

And it should be curiousity-driven and not application-driven like almost all modern research in computer vision and natural language processing.

I'm curious about how to not die (as an individual and a species). Would that count as curiosity or application drive? :P

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