On Fri, 5 May 2017 17:28:00 -0000 (UTC)
Martin Gregorie  wrote:

> On Fri, 05 May 2017 16:04:54 +0100, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
>
> >  Ah these things are called general Artificial Intelligence these
> > days. Hot research topic.
> >
> That doesn't surprise me at all, though I don't like that term much as is
> sounds more than slightly premature.

 AFAICT the term has arisen to acknowledge that it's something
that's not yet possible but being worked at and to distinguish it from the
various flavours of single task AI which are getting pretty sophisticated
these days.

> I think you have to use different names because whether an algorithm can
> explain itself should be a major factor when you're deciding how much you
> trust its output. After all, that's no different to how you decide
> whether to trust what a human tells you.

 This is true - although sometimes you trust a human based on
experience of success rather than explanations, I expect the same will hold
for general AI if/when it happens.
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