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Re:Understanding Causality Is the Next Challenge for Machine... by Animats on Thursday October 29, 2020 @02:45PM (#24933993)
It's good to see people working on this. They're focusing on the right part of the problem, too - predicting a few seconds ahead in a physical environment. Basic survival is about not really screwing up in the next 10 seconds. (People who do robotics are very aware of this.)

Don't get tangled up in the philosophy of causality. That's not the immediate problem.

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Re:Understanding Causality Is the Next Challenge for Machine... by ganzuul on Thursday October 29, 2020 @04:09PM (#24935125)
As someone thoroughly tangled up in said philosophy, I concur. Here be dragons.
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Re:Understanding Causality Is the Next Challenge for Machine... by ljw1001 on Thursday October 29, 2020 @05:24PM (#24936103)
Species survival requires looking much farther ahead, but it’s harder to do, and even harder to monetize.
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Re:Understanding Causality Is the Next Challenge for Machine... by e_y_ on Thursday October 29, 2020 @09:56PM (#24938302)
Focusing on the short term also seems like it'd make paperclip/Skynet scenarios less likely.
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