Top Artificial Intelligence system is as smart as a 4-year-old

Re:Top Artificial Intelligence system is as smart as a 4-yea... by capkutay on Tuesday July 16, 2013 @12:18AM (#6050009)

I'm not an expert in algorithms involving AI, but the ones I've been exposed share the characteristic of being brute force with giant if-then-else trees of possible decisions for the computer to make. It seems like any possible outcome a human can't for see will not be picked up by a computer either.

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Re:Top Artificial Intelligence system is as smart as a 4-yea... by saosebastiao on Tuesday July 16, 2013 @12:21AM (#6050017)

Which ones are you talking about? I have only a superficial exposure to them (mostly Expert Systems, Machine Learning, and Optimization contexts) but none of the ones I have seen come anything close to if-then-else trees. Okay...maybe Random Forests, but they are only if-then-else trees in the evaluation/prediction stage.

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Re:Top Artificial Intelligence system is as smart as a 4-yea... by capkutay on Tuesday July 16, 2013 @12:47AM (#6050086)

I meant search trees such as the ones used in minimax. I think of it as "if-then-else" in more of a colloquial sense, may be an incorrect description.

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