Re:Why Self-Taught Artificial Intelligence Has Trouble with ...
by pixl97 on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @02:08PM
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>Why doesn't the universe doesn't follow something that might be described as an algorithm?
I would say the universe follows algorithms just fine! Example
(H) + (O) + 'ignition source' = H2O.
The problem isn't algorithms, the problem is 'problem space'.
4 billion or so years ago, life forms were likely pretty easy to follow algorithmically. Then one evolved slightly and got an edge on the other ones, then another evolved and took the requirements to survive further. A random change here protected one life form this way, another that way.
Fast forward 4 billion and you see that the number of different algorithms is in the trillions. And we don't have nice code classes either. This is spaghetti. One change here affects something over there. Move that and you die. Move this and you can eat poison and surive.
I would say the universe follows algorithms just fine! Example
(H) + (O) + 'ignition source' = H2O.
The problem isn't algorithms, the problem is 'problem space'.
4 billion or so years ago, life forms were likely pretty easy to follow algorithmically. Then one evolved slightly and got an edge on the other ones, then another evolved and took the requirements to survive further. A random change here protected one life form this way, another that way.
Fast forward 4 billion and you see that the number of different algorithms is in the trillions. And we don't have nice code classes either. This is spaghetti. One change here affects something over there. Move that and you die. Move this and you can eat poison and surive.