Artificial intelligence pioneer says we need to start over

Re:Artificial intelligence pioneer says we need to start over by function_seven on Friday September 15, 2017 @03:06PM (#15259839)

Language acquisition. Sure, parents will point at an object and say, "Ball", "Chair", "Food", etc. But they don't do this for the conjunctions and interjections and prepositions. Nor for most of the 10,000 words a child will learn in the first few years of life.

Children learn the rules of grammar long before they realize there are any rules at all. Tenses and plurals, etc.

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Re:Artificial intelligence pioneer says we need to start over by eanzenberg on Friday September 15, 2017 @04:07PM (#15260336)

It's amazing how little people on this site know or understand intelligence, artificial and human.

You would be surprised how much infants learn from listening around them and how long it takes to learn that language, and how a brain interprets language was formed through so many years of evolution to be highly tuned to learn language fast.

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Re:Artificial intelligence pioneer says we need to start over by function_seven on Friday September 15, 2017 @04:22PM (#15260469)

We're arguing past each other then. I have no doubt that evolution is the essential thing that made us capable of unsupervised learning. That's not the central point of the debate for me. What I'm talking about is the problem of replicating that ability (unsupervised learning) in AI systems. We don't have the luxury of billions of years of evolution to do it. So we need to engineer another way.

I understood your previous comments as diminishing the sheer amount of unsupervised learning we do as humans.

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Re:Artificial intelligence pioneer says we need to start over by sctb on Saturday September 16, 2017 @02:16PM (#15265824)

This comment seriously violates the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. Please stop and re-read them.

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