Re: New AI Prize

An AI can only be a complex as its environment, an artificial world will be
useful for getting an AI up and running but then it would need to be brought
into the real world (robot) to really learn and do anything useful. After
all, you could put a human child on a far off planet by themselves and they
would be lucky to grow up to be any better than a monkey. We'll always be
potentially much brighter than monkeys, but what really makes us smart is
our ability to learn from others and use the tools that others have created.
With the knowledge I have now I could never build a computer myself, I
wouldn't have a bloody clue but this doesn't prevent me from using a
computer to try and create something as ambitious as AI.

The reason why creating AI in artificial worlds is such an attractive idea
for AI programmers is because they just can't afford the time and money or
don't have the knowledge to build robots themselves. Maybe the programmer
that eventually creates AI could pass it onto the engineers at Honda so they
can upload it into their robots. Their robots will be able to really dance
then.


The human race is smart but a human being is stupid. (Sounds like something
a character in a kung fu movie would say)


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