Re:Elon Musk: With artificial intelligence we are summoning ...
by erikpukinskis on Monday October 27, 2014 @12:46AM
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> Why would we/it make every generation start from scratch the way a human brain does?
Intelligent agents optimize to be good at solving the problems of the past. But different problems require a different training window. There are some problems that are best solved by an agent that is looking at data across 30 years. Other problems are best solved by agents that are only looking at data from the last 30 seconds.
It's not true that more old data is always better.
> The "child" of an AI is going to come out being immediately as good at math, for instance, as its "parent".
That's just not true. If that were true, why are there 25 year olds making mathematical discoveries that 40 year olds miss? It's not because they are somehow mechanically better, it's because the slate was wiped clean and they began from a different starting point.
Intelligent agents optimize to be good at solving the problems of the past. But different problems require a different training window. There are some problems that are best solved by an agent that is looking at data across 30 years. Other problems are best solved by agents that are only looking at data from the last 30 seconds.
It's not true that more old data is always better.
> The "child" of an AI is going to come out being immediately as good at math, for instance, as its "parent".
That's just not true. If that were true, why are there 25 year olds making mathematical discoveries that 40 year olds miss? It's not because they are somehow mechanically better, it's because the slate was wiped clean and they began from a different starting point.