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

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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