Re:John Carmack: I’m going to work on artificial general int...
by visarga on Thursday November 14, 2019 @12:47PM
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> intelligence is mostly about getting through the next 10-30 seconds of life without screwing up
This is probably a variant of Andrew Ng's affirmation that ML can solve anything a human could solve in one second, with enough training data.
But intelligence actually has a different role. It's not for those repeating situations that we could solve by mere reflex. It's for those rare situations where we have no cached response, where we need to think logically. Reflex is model-free reinforcement learning, and thinking is model-based RL. Both of them are necessary tools for taking decisions, but they are optimised for different situations.
This is probably a variant of Andrew Ng's affirmation that ML can solve anything a human could solve in one second, with enough training data.
But intelligence actually has a different role. It's not for those repeating situations that we could solve by mere reflex. It's for those rare situations where we have no cached response, where we need to think logically. Reflex is model-free reinforcement learning, and thinking is model-based RL. Both of them are necessary tools for taking decisions, but they are optimised for different situations.