Re: AI in FT (was Re: Be gentle...)

At 01:22 PM 7/13/97 -0400, you wrote:
>On Sun, 13 Jul 1997, Sutherland wrote:
>
>> The AI will almost always win the first encounter/engagement against
human
>> opponents.  The problem comes when there are engagements after the
first.
>> The AI has no imagination and therefore has a hard time predicting
what a
>> human will learn from the first encounter.  The win/loss ratio gets
worse
>
>You know, as someone that actually works with AI in the real world, I'm
>going to have to take issue with the implication that its incapable of
>learning new responses or even creativity.  The application of neural
>networks, genetic algorithms and other modern techniques allow software
to
>come up with new, even novel solutions to situational environments.
>Whether the learning occur as a result of neural reinforcement paths or
>because the less successful code dies and the winners survive to breed
>variants, experience gets encoded into the matrix of rules the software
>uses to make decisions.
>
>Given, what, a thousand or more years of development, AI that can
interact
>meaningfully in human terms should find learning things based on that
>patterning near-trivial.  This won't require recoding it after every
>encounter or any such manual intervention, it'll happen as a natural
>consequence of the way the system generates its responses.
>
>For a paper on a realworld application of something you'll have some
>connection to, do an Infoseek search for 'Amalthea MIT'.  The Amalthea
>project used a GA to learn your preferences in mail filtering.

I never said it was incapable of learning.  My only point is that unless
the tech increases drasticly in a totally new way it is improbable that
machines could duplicate the intuition of a human mind.  I have seen
some
amazing things done with learning algorythims.	But still nothing that
shows that it could be dropped in the middle of a jungle with a mission
goal and be able to handle it as well as a human.  Not yet anyway.

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