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Re:Probabilistic AI can't be AI by therobot24 on Saturday February 08, 2014 @01:16PM (#7201967)
TL;DR: "I'm not an AI/ML anything by any stretch of imagination"
Re:Probabilistic AI can't be AI by middayc on Saturday February 08, 2014 @01:17PM (#7201970)
good one, I accept it :)

edit: so you think human intelligence is mainly a probability machine?

Re:Probabilistic AI can't be AI by nabla9 on Saturday February 08, 2014 @03:45PM (#7202614)
Something to read:

Hierarchical Bayesian Modeling of Human Decision-Making Using Wiener Diffusion http://gandalf.psych.umn.edu/users/schrater/schrater_lab/cou...

Decision Theory and Human Behavior http://www.umass.edu/preferen/Class%20Material/Bounds%20of%2...

Beyond Accuracy: How Models of Decision Making Compare to Human Decision Making http://fileadmin.cs.lth.se/cs/Personal/Carl_Christian_Rolf/c...

Forgetful Bayes and myopic planning: Human learning and decision-making in a bandit setting http://papers.nips.cc/paper/5180-forgetful-bayes-and-myopic-...

>Our result shows that subjects’ choices, on a trial-to- trial basis, are best captured by a “forgetful” Bayesian iterative learning model [21] in combination with a partially myopic decision policy known as Knowledge Gradient [7].

Re:Probabilistic AI can't be AI by chomsky on Saturday February 08, 2014 @01:37PM (#7202044)
I don't really want to discourage teenagers from public writing, but if you're really confused about why this is being negatively received...

The most glaring thing: your three argumentative points could be simultaneously true and the assertion "Probabilistic AI can't be AI" could still be false.

Re:Probabilistic AI can't be AI by mindcrime on Saturday February 08, 2014 @01:31PM (#7202018)
My personal suspicion is that it's an ensemble approach involving both probabilistic and symbolic methods. But I think that human intelligence is largely driven by probabilistic methods.

But, I also "am not an AI/ML anything", I just read a lot on the subject and think about it a lot.