Structure of AI (was: Re: [extropy-chat] COMP: Distributed Computing)

Samantha Atkins samantha at objectent.com
Sun Nov 21 19:43:09 UTC 2004


On Nov 20, 2004, at 12:21 PM, J. Andrew Rogers wrote:
>
> Most AI research is still thinking in terms of computation, or at the 
> very least they view computational power as the limit on intelligence. 
>  If you look at the models used by most researchers, you can see why 
> they might come to that conclusion.  Newer foundational mathematical 
> models based in algorithmic information theory would strongly suggest 
> that this view is quite incorrect.
>
> I actually may have been the first hardcore theorist in the field of 
> AI to assert that there is almost no "computation" in "intelligence", 
> something which is considered less controversial and outlandish today 
> than when I started publicly making such assertions five years ago.  
> Still, old ideas die hard.  As one of the first people to take a 
> serious stab at defining intelligent systems and AI in terms of 
> algorithmic information theory, it became obvious to me that the 
> pervasive view that intelligence is bound by computational power was 
> not supportable in the mathematics.  As a foundational mathematical 
> model of intelligence, this general area has done very well; there are 
> far more reasons to think it is correct today than when it was first 
> proposed, and it has generated the first really new directions in 
> ages.
>
>

Interesting.  Please provide some citations to the relevant work.  
Googling I find a great deal by GJ Chaitin and others on "Algorithmic 
Information Theory".   Can you point out what you believe is the most 
accessible and AI relevant material?   Such pointers would be much 
appreciated.

- s




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