Re: The A.I. Project
- Posted by tone.skoda at gmx.net
Nov 07, 2002
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From: "C. K. Lester" <cklester at yahoo.com>
> No problem- "maintain a high number" is just a less-fatal version of
> "avoid death." I guess I was thinking that "fear of death" would be a
> great motivator.
For biological creatures avoiding death is sure main motivator, but for AI
creature living in simulated enviroment it can be anything. It's not
important at all what it is. Later if
Ai creature will be put into real world it will ofcourse need survival
motive.
> But what if those feelings are necessary for intelligence? I hate to
> keep repeating myself, but "fear of death" might be REQUIRED just to get
> the creature functioning to survive.
Why would it have to worry to survive if it won't be able to die? :)
I would look at AI this way: sensory information is very important to
achieve intelligence.
Sensory information forms AI brain.
If we look at the nature there is a lot of different kind of visual, audio,
chemical etc sensory information available to be processed by the brains,
any brains, not just human. So the brains are just very well adjusted to the
type of sensory information that they receive. You could look at sensory
information as a very large data which looks random at first, but it's not
and it has some complicated pattern. We're just figuring pattern from
sensory information.
We should just concentrate on how the sensory information forms neural net
and ignore other thoughts what should AI creature feel and what should its
motive be.
One more important thing about sensory information: complication of it
really comes of SEQUENCE and COMBINATION of sensory information we recieve.
To me discussions what are simulations, what are expert systems and what is
true AI are not really leading anywhere. If you are looking at it that way
then all AI available today are just expert systems. The border is not
clear.
Discussions about feelings, consciousnes and such things also seem boring to
me. They are maybe some side effect of the brain, but main task of brain is
to choose right decision/action among many available. Brain constantly tunes
itself to be able to cope with complex and changing enviroment around it.
That's why brain was invented by evolution :)
Our brain gets just the right balance of fixed intelligence from our genes
as it's neccesary. If it was more our bran would be less adjustable.
Evolution would be able to produce realy intelligent "expert system" brain
which would be born intelligent and would do only one thing really good and
have less abilities to change its structure. But it wouldn't be able to
adjust to new things and that creature would die.
I wonder how would look brain of human which would have no senses right from
birth:
no vision, hearing, touch, smell, taste.
Good approach would be if sensory information would in different random ways
form connections in neural net.Then the best way by which neural net is
modified from sensory information
is selected with evolution algorithm.
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