On 05/05/17 14:03, Martin Gregorie wrote:
> On Fri, 05 May 2017 13:14:44 +0100, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
>
>>  So the one that is currently the world's best Go player doesn't
>> qualify ?
>>
> Definitely not. Just as chess programs and IBM's Watson do not - the
> latter has to be trained specifically for whatever you want it to do.
>
> I'd agree that Watson and equivalent frameworks count as Expert Systems,
> but not as AIs.
>
> Try this for size: to pass as an AI, a system must:
>
> 1) pass the Turing Test in more than one domain
>

many usenet posters would fail that.

> 2) when asked a question in a domain it has learned it must be able to
>    (a)give a correct answer and (b) explain how it arrived at it
>
A majorette of usenet posters would fail that.

> 3) be able to learn how to play a game or to understand a technology by
>    reading a book or manual (chess, go, C) or the game's instructions
>    (monopoly, D&D)

Few people can do that these days.

>
> 4) be able to absorb more than one knowledge domain without getting
>    confused.
>
No one in politics would pass that.

> Current systems can do 1 and 2a though I don't think anything can do
> both, and no current neural net-based system can do 2b. AFAIK nothing
> currently comes even close to tackling 3 or 4.
>
The Rise of the Machines looms doesn't it?


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