Re:Ask HN: Best book you read in 2010 and briefly why
by arethuza on Monday December 06, 2010 @05:36AM
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Daemon and Freedom are very good. The only problem I had (at it is pretty minor) is that for an AI that keeps asserting that it is just a canned set of production rules (i.e. wait until <something> happens then do <stuff>) it seems to possess a remarkable degree of general intelligence.
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Re:Ask HN: Best book you read in 2010 and briefly why
by dmoney on Monday December 06, 2010 @06:55AM
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I chalked that up to the billionaire supergenius creator, which also hurts the plausibility a bit.
Re:Ask HN: Best book you read in 2010 and briefly why
by arethuza on Monday December 06, 2010 @07:35AM
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Yeah - I think that was the intention of the author. I used to work in AI research so I'm probably being a bit harsh.
Re:Ask HN: Best book you read in 2010 and briefly why
by smallhands on Monday December 06, 2010 @09:08AM
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mind sharing why you no longer work in ai research
Re:Ask HN: Best book you read in 2010 and briefly why
by arethuza on Monday December 06, 2010 @10:29AM
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It's a long time ago now (late 80s early 90s), but reasons include:
- I hated the politics/game-playing that seem to be a huge component of getting on in academic research
- It was clear to me that we are unlikely to see any fundamental breakthroughs in general AI during my career
- I had been doing work on the Web since '92 and it was clear to me by '95 that this had a much brighter future than "classical" AI
- I co-founded a Web/Java startup in '95