[ExI] An AI program that teaches itself

[John Clark]

On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 9:23 PM, Adrian Tymes <atymes at gmail.com> wrote:

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>> It seems to me the next logical step would be to switch the program's interest
>> from getting better at the game of GO to improving computer code,
>> ​ ​
>> including its own. I wonder where that could lead.
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> Who judges whether the result is an improvement?  In go, there is an
> objective standard it can assess repeatedly, with no need for human
> supervision.


​A computer program ​that does the same thing as another but is smaller and
executes faster is objectively better.

John K Clark
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