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jtan
Profile Blog Joined April 2003
Sweden5891 Posts
November 01 2007 22:21 GMT
#21
Thank's a lot for the link's DrainX!

I'm very interested in the possibilites and limits of AI, and has been doing some simple programming with it.

HeadBangaa, your are right that computers can't be "smarter" than humans when they just follow instructions to perform computations, but there are other possibilities. The only one that I know of is "neural networking" where you simulate the connected cells in a brain.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_neural_network
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HeadBangaa
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
United States6512 Posts
Last Edited: 2007-11-01 22:50:36
November 01 2007 22:45 GMT
#22
On November 02 2007 07:21 jtan wrote:
Thank's a lot for the link's DrainX!

I'm very interested in the possibilites and limits of AI, and has been doing some simple programming with it.

HeadBangaa, your are right that computers can't be "smarter" than humans when they just follow instructions to perform computations, but there are other possibilities. The only one that I know of is "neural networking" where you simulate the connected cells in a brain.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_neural_network

Even then, it still seems like a paradox.

If a programmer designed a mechanism which produces better-than-human results, then the moment the design was completed, the mechanism loses that attribute. Human knowledge was increased, and it's still just a really fast human-mind. An inductive proof seems appropriate here.

I don't see how a virtual neural network could be instantiated without being completely deterministic, unless modern computing itself was turned on its head.
People who fail to distinguish Socratic Method from malicious trolling are sadly stupid and not worth a response.
jtan
Profile Blog Joined April 2003
Sweden5891 Posts
November 01 2007 23:01 GMT
#23
On November 02 2007 07:45 HeadBangaa wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 02 2007 07:21 jtan wrote:
Thank's a lot for the link's DrainX!

I'm very interested in the possibilites and limits of AI, and has been doing some simple programming with it.

HeadBangaa, your are right that computers can't be "smarter" than humans when they just follow instructions to perform computations, but there are other possibilities. The only one that I know of is "neural networking" where you simulate the connected cells in a brain.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_neural_network

Even then, it still seems like a paradox.

If a programmer designed a mechanism which produces better-than-human results, then the moment the design was completed, the mechanism loses that attribute. Human knowledge was increased, and it's still just a really fast human-mind. An inductive proof seems appropriate here.

I don't see how a virtual neural network could be instantiated without being completely deterministic, unless modern computing itself was turned on its head.

yeah but that's just the thing! It is essentially deterministic, but we could never predict what structure will evolve inside the network in practice.

Imagine that you plug in a camera that films my handwriting. You check the output of the system and when the system output's the right letters, you give a positive signal backwards strengthening the connections used for coming up with that letter. This way the system will keep rearranging itself and improve over time.
Here is an example of pretty much what I described, it really works: http://www.codeproject.com/library/NeuralNetRecognition.asp

Also, beeing a materialists and I think that the human mind also is a deterministic in the exact same way.
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Funchucks
Profile Joined June 2007
Canada2113 Posts
November 01 2007 23:03 GMT
#24
On November 02 2007 07:45 HeadBangaa wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 02 2007 07:21 jtan wrote:
Thank's a lot for the link's DrainX!

I'm very interested in the possibilites and limits of AI, and has been doing some simple programming with it.

HeadBangaa, your are right that computers can't be "smarter" than humans when they just follow instructions to perform computations, but there are other possibilities. The only one that I know of is "neural networking" where you simulate the connected cells in a brain.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_neural_network

Even then, it still seems like a paradox.

If a programmer designed a mechanism which produces better-than-human results, then the moment the design was completed, the mechanism loses that attribute. Human knowledge was increased, and it's still just a really fast human-mind. An inductive proof seems appropriate here.

I don't see how a virtual neural network could be instantiated without being completely deterministic, unless modern computing itself was turned on its head.

By including true random numbers in its inputs.

True randoms (at least based on quantum randomness) aren't hard to generate with the proper hardware. Some CPUs have them. Randomness is injected by "noisy" inputs such as microphones and cameras as well.

Anyway, I don't see determinism as relevant. Predictability and power to reach useful conclusions are the relevant considerations in comparing a machine intelligence to a human intelligence.
I serve my houseguests slices of butter.
HeadBangaa
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
United States6512 Posts
Last Edited: 2007-11-01 23:16:58
November 01 2007 23:13 GMT
#25
^ I think the distinction between true randomness and predictability is important theoretically, if not pragmatically.
edit: I didn't know that "true randoms" could be generated programmatically..
edit2: oh snap, physics to the rescue
People who fail to distinguish Socratic Method from malicious trolling are sadly stupid and not worth a response.
jtan
Profile Blog Joined April 2003
Sweden5891 Posts
Last Edited: 2007-11-01 23:18:16
November 01 2007 23:16 GMT
#26
On November 02 2007 08:13 HeadBangaa wrote:
^ I think the distinction between true randomness and predictability is important theoretically, if not pragmatically.
edit: I didn't know that "true randomness" had been achieved.

"true randomness" through quantum mechanics is very much in the use and development, but there's still some discussion whether it is truly random or if it depends on local variables. There are some solid counterarguments vs the local variable theory, but some still defend it etc.
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Funchucks
Profile Joined June 2007
Canada2113 Posts
November 01 2007 23:43 GMT
#27
Computers and brains alike can only be as inwardly non-deterministic as their component particles allow.

If the universe is deterministic, then so is the human brain.
I serve my houseguests slices of butter.
Jyvblamo
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
Canada13788 Posts
Last Edited: 2007-11-01 23:59:25
November 01 2007 23:59 GMT
#28
Read the most recent Hugo-Award Winning Novel:
http://vrinimi.org/rainbowsend.html
Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge (He's awesome)
It deals with several interesting issues with a society approaching technological singularity.
jtan
Profile Blog Joined April 2003
Sweden5891 Posts
November 02 2007 00:02 GMT
#29
Omg these videos are good. Just ordered some of the recommended readings.
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DrainX
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
Sweden3187 Posts
November 02 2007 02:58 GMT
#30
http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/faculty/vinge/misc/singularity.html

The Coming Technological Singularity:
How to Survive in the Post-Human Era



Vernor Vinge
Department of Mathematical Sciences
San Diego State University


(c) 1993 by Vernor Vinge
Hippopotamus
Profile Blog Joined October 2004
1914 Posts
Last Edited: 2007-11-02 03:39:40
November 02 2007 03:29 GMT
#31
It always boggles me how exactly the machines will be learning everything. I've been bothered by the idea that they can continually increase their own capability and I'm always wondering why people think we're so close to creating a computer of intelligence comparable to humans. It's not that it is impossible, but there're some things the computer will have to do that I'm not sure we're clear on. To be truly able to advance itself the computer will have to "understand". But how will it "understand"? It has to have some sort of paradigm by which to interpret information. Where will it get that if not from humans? But our interpretations aren't ideal, they're limited by who we are biologically. Can you come up with a superior method of interpreting data from only taking an inferior method to its limits?
potchip
Profile Joined October 2004
Australia260 Posts
November 02 2007 03:37 GMT
#32
Currently the number of processing units in the best computers are nowhere near that is in a human brain. But that is taking human brain celluar function as a model. Intelligent computers is foreseeable however because the capacity of computers can increase indefinately with new designs how electronics is scalable, whereas human brain power is limited biologically. I agree though it nothing 'around the corner'.
noob4ever
Profile Joined April 2005
Denmark59 Posts
November 02 2007 16:33 GMT
#33
"AI" in the future will just be incredible fast machines, to the point of appearing intelligent. But if they do something we dont want, it will just be a system failure. I think they will still need some programming. Makes me wonder, what the hell is thought proccesing in the bio-world? Is it programmed or some kind of "as we go along" selfprogramming? Someone mentioned magic. I think its magic how some billions of stupid braincells with chemical signalling, somehow via cooperation can produce thoughts, its just so weird I really cant see us humans make a simular system. I might add, Im neigher a believer or atheist but an agnostic, meaning I realise I dont know shit and never will, so might as well quit thinking about it. Lol.
yisun518
Profile Joined August 2004
Canada480 Posts
Last Edited: 2007-11-02 18:48:32
November 02 2007 18:46 GMT
#34
With the "Evolution of Clock" topic posted, I think its quite possible that a fast computer in the future can run a simulation combining millions of variables in the world with "survival of the fittest" conditions on vehicles, machines, intelligent beings, buildings.... eventually forseeing the evolutions in the future on almost everything.

This could play a part in technology singularity, an exhaustion method in "evolution simulation" to increase its own "intelligence"
jtan
Profile Blog Joined April 2003
Sweden5891 Posts
Last Edited: 2007-11-02 19:33:20
November 02 2007 19:32 GMT
#35
On November 03 2007 01:33 noob4ever wrote:
"AI" in the future will just be incredible fast machines, to the point of appearing intelligent. But if they do something we dont want, it will just be a system failure.

Not necessarily.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_neural_network
It might take a while to understand, but it's possible for computers to work in about the same ways as brains. It has been done, and a lot of research is going on. The main problem right now is to make networks big and fast enough. A human brain has ~10^11 neorons with ~7000 connections each.

I think they will still need some programming. Makes me wonder, what the hell is thought proccesing in the bio-world? Is it programmed or some kind of "as we go along" selfprogramming? Someone mentioned magic. I think its magic how some billions of stupid braincells with chemical signalling, somehow via cooperation can produce thoughts, its just so weird I really cant see us humans make a simular system.

The brain is an extremely complex system, but it's not as hard as you might think to create. The DNA-code that builds the brain is not very long, it basicy describes how to build and connect one neuron and then "build 67482959432 more of those". And what you call selfprogramming is essentially connections between neurons being strengthend weakend or destroyed as a consequence of the strength of the signals passing through them.

I might add, Im neigher a believer or atheist but an agnostic, meaning I realise I dont know shit and never will, so might as well quit thinking about it. Lol.

I find that to be a pretty pessimistic world view
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Mindcrime
Profile Joined July 2004
United States6899 Posts
Last Edited: 2007-11-02 19:42:06
November 02 2007 19:37 GMT
#36
On November 03 2007 01:33 noob4ever wrote:
I might add, Im neigher a believer or atheist but an agnostic, meaning I realise I dont know shit and never will, so might as well quit thinking about it. Lol.


Agnosticism is not a third way. You're either a theist or an atheist.
That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.
cava
Profile Blog Joined November 2002
United States1035 Posts
November 02 2007 19:44 GMT
#37
On November 02 2007 04:21 Eniram wrote:
You cannot stop judgement day.. Only delay it.
cava!
jtan
Profile Blog Joined April 2003
Sweden5891 Posts
November 02 2007 19:53 GMT
#38
On November 03 2007 04:44 cava wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 02 2007 04:21 Eniram wrote:
You cannot stop judgement day.. Only delay it.

Actually the great day of the singularity sounds pretty much like an armageddon when the people in the videos speaks of it. Maybe they can get some research funding from the religios right haha
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betaben
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
681 Posts
November 02 2007 19:56 GMT
#39
this verges on the turing machene thread, and whether a machine can replicate a human, "Shadows of the Mind" by Penrose is good for this.

As for artificial neural networks (ANN), I at least know they are used in high energy physics and out perform anything there (including humans).

Apparently, there are some stages Kurtwiel gives for replicating brains with computers, and a step before a human brain is a mouse brain. IBM have done this, making a computer big enough to simulate all the connections of a mouse brain.
jtan
Profile Blog Joined April 2003
Sweden5891 Posts
November 02 2007 19:59 GMT
#40
Interesting. What exactly is the application in physics are are talking about? Got any source?
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