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Re:SHRDLU (1971) by Darthy on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @01:36AM (#14355909)
So what was the problem? Why couldn't we add more and more more things to build it slowly into a more general AI?
Re:SHRDLU (1971) by Sharlin on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @03:18AM (#14356292)
For the same reason we still need classical physics and chemistry and biology and psychology and sociology even though in principle it should be possible to model everything ab initio with just quantum mechanics. In practice we can just barely do that with single molecules before the complexity grows insurmountable.
Re:SHRDLU (1971) by anentropic on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @08:28AM (#14357727)
If I recall... the complexity of the program/system scaled exponentially with the complexity of the universe it had to support. something like that