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Re:Why 2015 Was a Breakthrough Year in Artificial Intelligence by colordrops on Saturday January 02, 2016 @03:35AM (#10825546)
I've read elsewhere that they trained in whether the score went up. For it to really be a general game playing AI, it should be able to figure out the goals of games without scoring systems, such as adventure games.
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Re:Why 2015 Was a Breakthrough Year in Artificial Intelligence by Houshalter on Saturday January 02, 2016 @12:15PM (#10826814)
That is, unfortunately, impossible. All AIs need some kind of reward function, an incentive to do things. Without that they have no reason to do anything.
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Re:Why 2015 Was a Breakthrough Year in Artificial Intelligence by colordrops on Sunday January 03, 2016 @11:52PM (#10834070)
So your thesis is that AIs will never reach human intelligence, which can indeed figure out goals of video games on its own?
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Re:Why 2015 Was a Breakthrough Year in Artificial Intelligence by Houshalter on Monday January 04, 2016 @10:23AM (#10836017)
It might be able to figure them out, though it has no reason to care.

Certainly, a new born baby given a video game controller would not be able to figure it out.

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