RE: AlphaGo Zero Mastered Chess in Just Four Hours of Self-study
Great points. I agree that, all else being equal, there’s an advantage to general intellectual capabilities, such as the ability to recognize patterns. But I’m not convinced that a general artificial intelligence competing against a narrow artificial intelligence optimized to a single purpose would always win going head-to-head on the same problem. The article I linked to makes some excellent points about how intelligence is situational and depends on the context. It also points out that people with exceptional IQs (assuming this actually measures intelligence) can actually be at a disadvantage, and don’t outperform, as a whole, people with lower IQs in the game of life. Perhaps a modular design, where a general intelligence can choose to turn on or off specific modules optimized to a purpose, combines the best of both worlds. And in fact, the brain seems to contain many such specialized modules.
I read the article. I agree that using a hypothetical general AI instead of a narrow AI to solve a problem wouldn't always be the best choice. And yes, the brain really has different brain areas specialized in different particular tasks.
I'd say that recent advances in deep convoluted neural networks have allowed for the development of astonishingly capable narrow AI systems. Developing artificial minds capable of independent existence and goal setting seems very far off at this stage, however.
Agreed. Good chat. So rare to have productive, respectful dialogue in social media. I wonder if this is sustainable here in the long-term. I hope so.
On Steem, thoughtful conversations have an advantage of monetary worth on top of sentimental and utilitarian worth. I would say that since the platform rewards us to have such interactions we will eventually get conditioned to have more of them.
I certainly hope so. I think if you look at the hierarchy of conversations in social media, quality goes from Twitter (anonymity allows abuse), to Facebook (social repercussions keep people in line, but conversation is light), to LinkedIn (indirect financial reward for seeming intelligent). Perhaps Steem is the next level: direct financial reward for valuable contributions.