Dan Fabulich wrote:
>
> We AI people have a problem. People say: "You can't make a computer
> 'learn.'" Then we make them learn. They respond to things in their
> environment in an interesting and useful way. And people say: "THAT'S
> not really learning! THIS is learning!" So we make them do that, and
> they say "THAT'S not really learning! THIS is learning!"
I feel obligated to point out that a series of incorrect definitions by
"other people" does not necessarily mean that the "AI people" have
produced real learning. It could just mean that the laymen are just as
bad at defining learning as the academics, but have a better ability to
recognize flat failure when they see it.
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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