Re:Artificial intelligence pioneer says we need to start over
by snowwrestler on Friday September 15, 2017 @10:15PM
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Having just raised a human from newborn to walking, talking kid, I have to say that her life so far has been chock full of oracles guiding her learning.
Long before language, babies spend hours every day just interacting with the physical environment, which is "true": the toy is here, not there. The body weighs a certain amount. If you move the head this way, you'll roll over. If you move it that way, no rolling. Etc.
And parents provide a different kind of guidance. We react differently to different sounds, actions, movements of child. Even if these are not "truth" philosophically, they represent for the child emotional truth.
I'm just a guy who reads things about AI on the Internet, but I have to say it sometimes seems to me like AI folks have funny ideas of what "intelligence" is, and how it develops. The description of "unsupervised" learning above doesn't comport with any human experience I recognize. IME, humans receive constant immediate feedback on everything we do in life.
Long before language, babies spend hours every day just interacting with the physical environment, which is "true": the toy is here, not there. The body weighs a certain amount. If you move the head this way, you'll roll over. If you move it that way, no rolling. Etc.
And parents provide a different kind of guidance. We react differently to different sounds, actions, movements of child. Even if these are not "truth" philosophically, they represent for the child emotional truth.
I'm just a guy who reads things about AI on the Internet, but I have to say it sometimes seems to me like AI folks have funny ideas of what "intelligence" is, and how it develops. The description of "unsupervised" learning above doesn't comport with any human experience I recognize. IME, humans receive constant immediate feedback on everything we do in life.