Greedy, Brittle, Opaque, and Shallow: The Downsides to Deep Learning

Re:Greedy, Brittle, Opaque, and Shallow: The Downsides to De... by lsc on Saturday February 10, 2018 @08:43PM (#16350694)

You could, of course, do machine checks of some subset of "can generate syntactically correct English" -and that would cut out a whole lot more bad programs than 'can you write MacBeth.'

but- even when you pass that test, you will have a nearly infinite number of marcov-chain generators and similar programs to sort through.

My point is that if you want to solve a program by generating random code, you need machine-executable fitness test.

We don't have a machine-executable test for consciousness. The Turing test relies on the intuition of humans, and we have a very finite supply of that.

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Re:Greedy, Brittle, Opaque, and Shallow: The Downsides to De... by thaumasiotes on Sunday February 11, 2018 @01:23AM (#16351468)

> even when you pass that test, you will have a nearly infinite number of marcov-chain generators and similar programs to sort through

Not really relevant to your point, but Markov chain generators aren't able to generate syntactically correct English.

(Or, they are able to generate it, but they aren't able to stop themselves from generating syntactically invalid English, and almost all of their output will in fact be invalid.)

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