Re:AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol 3-0 [video]
by eggy on Saturday March 12, 2016 @08:25AM
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I agree somewhat, but then what is your gauge for superhuman if not some type of competition? How do you evaluate it?
On another note, Rocky Marciano had the mafia behind him. Harry Haft fought him and was knocked out, and later claimed the mafia told him he had to throw the fight [1].
There's also a good graphic novel about this. Maybe the AI's goons have threatened Sedol or kin ;)
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Re:AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol 3-0 [video]
by YeGoblynQueenne on Saturday March 12, 2016 @08:46AM
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>> what is your gauge for superhuman if not some type of competition?
To be honest- I don't have one. My intuition is that we can't have a good definition of "superhuman intelligence" because having one would require us to demonstrate superhuman intelligence ourselves. Which is obviously a contradiction.
Intuitively, a calculator is not superhuman.
A person who could do mental arithmetic as well as a calculator? That would seem to be superhuman.
If you find out that they were using a calculator under the table the whole time, they're not superhuman any more.
So I think the word "superhuman" must imply a fair competition, in the sense that the participants are competing using comparable approaches. For some definition of comparable.