[ExI] An AI program that teaches itself

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From: extropy-chat [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of John Clark
Subject: Re: [ExI] An AI program that teaches itself

 

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

 

​> >…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

 

Always there is the obvious metric: the program which sells the most or makes the most money is the best one.  This leads to the observation that sales are a combination of the appeal of the product and the effectiveness of the marketing strategy.  We can imagine software-generated advertisement strategies.

 

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