On Fri, 5 May 2017 13:03:03 -0000 (UTC)
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
>
> 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
>
> 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)
>
> 4) be able to absorb more than one knowledge domain without getting
>    confused.

 Ah these things are called general Artificial Intelligence these
days. Hot research topic.

> 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.

 There is definitely progress being made on 3 and as a result 4,
nothing by way of products but a good many papers and results.

> > Or the ones that learn languages and are currently being
> > used to try and learn dolphin language ?
> >
> Are these just neural networks or something better and more flexible?

 Neural networks with memory and some fancy self training AFAICT.

> > Passing a Turing test calls for either something designed for
> > conversation or an artificial general intelligence.
> >
> Quite and IMHO thats what the term should be reserved for.

 Trouble is that leaves no term for things like the above which are
not general AI but are also not programmed explicitly.

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