timtyler comments on Reframing the Problem of AI Progress - Less Wrong

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Comment author: timtyler 13 April 2012 01:01:43PM 0 points [-]

I think some people are too convinced of the AIXI approximation route and therefore believe that it is just a math problem that only takes some thinking and one or two deep insights

Inductive inference is "just a math problem". That's the part that models the world - which is what our brain spends most of its time doing. However, it's probably not "one or two deep insights". Inductive inference systems seem to be complex and challenging to build.

Comment author: XiXiDu 13 April 2012 02:38:41PM 0 points [-]

Inductive inference is "just a math problem". That's the part that models the world - which is what our brain spends most of its time doing.

Everything is a math problem. But that doesn't mean that you can build a brain by sitting in your basement and literally think it up.

Team Basement

Comment author: timtyler 13 April 2012 02:48:14PM 0 points [-]

A well-specified math problem, then. By contrast with fusion or space travel.

Comment author: Dmytry 13 April 2012 05:18:29PM *  0 points [-]

how is intelligence well specified compared to space travel? We know physics well enough. We know we want to get from point A to point B. The intelligence: we don't even quite know what do exactly we want from it. We know of some ridiculous towers of exponents slow method, that means precisely nothing.

Comment author: timtyler 13 April 2012 09:53:21PM *  0 points [-]

The claim was: inductive inference is just a math problem. If we know how to build a good quality, general-purpose stream compressor, the problem would be solved.