Re: Just a hunch...

Rodrick Campbell wrote:
. Although it
> is true that computers anr faster at sequential logic processing, I
> haven't found one yet that can play a hunch or gets a gut feeling
about
> things. It will be a long time before any AI can make intuitive leaps
of
> logic.

Well, you can fake it fairly well. Just use a genetic algorithm using
sexual reproduction, feed in all the scenarios that are plausible or
even possible, wait for a zillion generations and pick the survivors.

They work pretty well at faking intuition, insasmuch as they will, for
no apparent reason, occasionally do exactly the right thing at the right
time.. often not the very-best-possible, but always pretty close. It's
not perfect optimization, but it has no Achilles Heel, which is what you
want in an automated system. 
 
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