Re:Pac-Man recreated with a GAN trained on 50k game episodes
by plutonorm on Friday May 22, 2020 @03:25PM
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What makes you think the pile of if-else statements isn't conscious?
Re:Pac-Man recreated with a GAN trained on 50k game episodes
by 101404 on Friday May 22, 2020 @08:18PM
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Because it's a pile of if-else statements shuffled until it was able to perform a single specialized thing. Any housefly would by a thousand times as "conscious".
Re:Pac-Man recreated with a GAN trained on 50k game episodes
by bobly_today on Friday May 22, 2020 @08:51PM
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What makes you so certain a house fly doesn’t have a form of rudimentary consciousness? It might be a spectrum.
Re:Pac-Man recreated with a GAN trained on 50k game episodes
by collyw on Saturday May 23, 2020 @07:01AM
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I assume that a housefly does have a basic form of consciousness. It's not going to write Shakespeare but it probably wants to mate. (I know people who's life goals don't appear to extend much further).
It just means some people poked a pile of a bazillion if-else statements long enough, until the desired result came out. I believe everyone here knows the xkcd I am referring to.
Still, I think it's an interesting result. But, as someone on Fridman's podcast said the other day: recent advances in AI have all been thanks to advances in computing power, not any new ideas. The future if AI seems to depend on Moore's Law, more than anything.