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

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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.

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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.