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Re:Google achieves AI 'breakthrough' by beating Go champion by meric on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @05:18PM (#10983978)
Perhaps postrationalizaton is still useful? Could empathy and mirror neurons help transfer some of that deep learning? Two weeks later the student faces a similar situation, and they get the same gut feeling their teacher did, and that helps them play better than if their teacher didn't postrationalize?
Re:Google achieves AI 'breakthrough' by beating Go champion by jameshart on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @05:27PM (#10984044)
Absolutely! My point is that human intelligence doesn't actually have any deep insight into how it makes decisions, so we shouldn't be that disappointed that an AI doesn't, either. Humans can postrationalize - explore how they think they make decisions - but they can't tell you how they actually decided. Doing the same for an AI is interesting, but I don't think it's a necessary component of making good decisions in the first place to be able to explain why you made it.
Re:Google achieves AI 'breakthrough' by beating Go champion by cgio on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @07:37PM (#10984888)
On the other hand, not all actions are decisions. There is plenty of actions we would classify as decisions which are application of rules instead. There is a clear rational path in application of rules. To clarify terminology, for me decisions are actions in response to intractable computationally challenges, e.g. will that couch fit in my living room (when I am in a store, where size calculations are hard in an unfamiliar context) etc. This could mean that your action is my decision if we are not equally capable of calculating based on rules.
Re:Google achieves AI 'breakthrough' by beating Go champion by robbrown451 on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @08:24PM (#10985301)
Although, when looking at the Deep Dream images that come as a by product (more or less) of image recognition AI, I get the impression that there ARE ways of communicating things about what a computer is "thinking" when trying to solve problems in areas where humans are traditionally better.
Re:Google achieves AI 'breakthrough' by beating Go champion by jibalt on Sunday January 31, 2016 @01:46AM (#11005528)
Your point is completely and utterly wrong when it comes to chess.