Comment author: KatjaGrace 16 September 2014 01:02:28AM 4 points [-]

What is the relationship between economic growth and AI? (Why does a book about AI begin with economic growth?)

Comment author: AshokGoel 16 September 2014 01:48:48AM *  3 points [-]

I havnt read the book yet, but based on the summary here (and for what it is worth), I found the jump from 1-5 under economic growth above to 6 a little unconvincing.

Comment author: KatjaGrace 16 September 2014 01:21:05AM 3 points [-]

Have you seen any demonstrations of AI which made a big impact on your expectations, or were particularly impressive?

Comment author: AshokGoel 16 September 2014 01:33:45AM *  3 points [-]

One demonstration of AI that I find impressive is that AI agents can now take and "pass" some intelligence tests. For example, AI agents can now about as well as a typical American teenager on the Raven's test of human intelligence.

Comment author: KatjaGrace 16 September 2014 01:11:13AM 3 points [-]

AI seems to be pretty good at board games relative to us. Does this tell us anything interesting? For instance, about the difficulty of automating other kinds of tasks? How about the task of AI research? Some thoughts here.

Comment author: AshokGoel 16 September 2014 01:31:40AM 5 points [-]

Thanks for the nice summary and the questions. I think it is worth noting that AI is good only at some board games (fully observable, deterministic games) and not at others (partially observable, non-deterministic games such as, say, Civilization).