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Re:John Carmack: I’m going to work on artificial general int... by visarga on Thursday November 14, 2019 @02:01AM (#21533390)
There are lots of ideas floating around. Everyone who has studied the field has ideas. Ideas are cheap, results matter. The problem is we don't know if any of these ideas would work, and proving an idea requires lots of data, simulations and compute.

Being good at grasping the theory is just the first step in a thousand mile journey. The problem of AI is not going to be solved with a neat math trick on paper, but with lots of experiments. Nature has taken a similar path towards intelligence.

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Re:John Carmack: I’m going to work on artificial general int... by Scarblac on Thursday November 14, 2019 @03:03AM (#21533656)
The field of statistical inference is about mathematically proving how good various statistical ideas are. It's possible to do better than just throw trial and error on a new idea.
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