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Re:AI Beats Four Top Poker Players by arnarbi on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @04:53PM (#13535600)
> It's almost like we've uncovered ways to automate our intelligence very much like we've been automating human and animal labor in the past couple centuries.

Actually, a lot of mental work isn't based on intelligence but rather training in pattern recognition, thinking faster, translation of information between different coding systems, and developing instincts about the behavior if complex systems. This isn't very different from manual labor when you think about it.

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Re:AI Beats Four Top Poker Players by brilliantcode on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @05:00PM (#13535673)
hmmm interesting way to put things. I often held such cynicisms about "intelligent" and "professionals". At the end of the day it's still labor, white collared, but none the less value is trapped in the blackbox which are humans.

Now it appears the essence of that is being distilled into parameters for AI algorithms which can produce superior output by teaching it with decades of professional human knowledge which maybe dumbed down with simple machine learning.

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