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Re:Ray Kurzweil: AI is still on course to outpace human inte... by pgodzin on Monday January 21, 2019 @04:19PM (#18963723)
What is the baseline? How well does a mouse perform when placed in an "unrelated" task for the first time? The mouse also gets an explicit reward function (food, pain, etc) - does the "unrelated" task use the same reward function as what the AI was optimized for?

Also, is it ever really the "first time" for a mouse when behavior has been ingrained and tuned over millions of years of evolution? Is this different than training an algorithm?

My point is just that it's really hard to define these tasks and how to evaluate performance for a machine and a mouse.

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Re:Ray Kurzweil: AI is still on course to outpace human inte... by jononor on Monday January 21, 2019 @04:28PM (#18963784)
The baseline performance would be whatever a set of mice would do in the same situation. What constitutes an "unrelated" task is quite a difficult question, we would probably need to iterate a lot on that. If we are to have "hidden" tasks available we need to come up with a lot of new task formulations/variations anyway.

I think that replicating mouse-level adaptability in an intelligent agent while allowing 'inherited' behavioral traits will already be an achievement. And probably take us quite a while.

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