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Re:AI Sports Journalist Covers Every Division I College Bask... by JonnieCache on Wednesday November 17, 2010 @11:35AM (#1914740)
Surely strong AI is by definition such a paradigm shift that it cannot be achieved with lots of little steps of weak AI? I thought that was kind of the point of the strong/weak AI dichotomy.
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Re:AI Sports Journalist Covers Every Division I College Bask... by jerf on Wednesday November 17, 2010 @12:49PM (#1914983)
A definition has no power to change the engineering feasibility of a task. If it is possible to build a strong AI from a series of weak AI steps, which is certainly not out of the question (one can argue that's how human brains work), no amount of definition will change that.
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Re:AI Sports Journalist Covers Every Division I College Bask... by JonnieCache on Wednesday November 17, 2010 @03:01PM (#1915496)
However if we accept the definition, then it is surely meaningless (pointless?) to discuss AI progress in those terms.

EDIT: what i really mean is that I reject the strong/weak AI dichotomy. I really need to resist the urge to play pointless semantic games. Guess thats an occupational hazard of programming all day long.

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Re:AI Sports Journalist Covers Every Division I College Bask... by joshes on Wednesday November 17, 2010 @02:07PM (#1915309)
This takes us back to the problem of emergence (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence), something that AI researchers, entomologists, economists, et al. have been struggling with for some time.
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Re:AI Sports Journalist Covers Every Division I College Bask... by cryptoz on Wednesday November 17, 2010 @11:38AM (#1914747)
Sure, and that's why I phrased that suggestion as a question. Maybe we're not walking towards strong AI with weak AI steps. But...with AI writing sports articles now, it seems logical to wonder if perhaps small progressions in the capabilities of weak AI systems will result in real, full AGI.
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Re:AI Sports Journalist Covers Every Division I College Bask... by abstractbill on Wednesday November 17, 2010 @12:08PM (#1914849)
Maybe we're not walking towards strong AI with weak AI steps.

Just a random thought, but even if all of our weak AI systems don't directly result in us being able to build a strong AI, maybe they will do so indirectly. We might be able to use all of these weak AI systems to train a more general-purpose strong AI system.

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