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Re:Probabilistic AI can't be AI by sieisteinmodel on Saturday February 08, 2014 @03:39PM (#7202595)
> Brains work probabilistically at least in the sense that the underlying biomechanics have some statistical distribution.

No, it's us that use these distribution to model them. Reality might be deterministic after all (no proof of the contrary), and then brains are not working probabilistic at all.

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Re:Probabilistic AI can't be AI by wlievens on Saturday February 08, 2014 @03:56PM (#7202689)
I would think even entirely deterministic systems need to be treated probabilistically if you don't have perfect information.
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