[ExI] Science or Science

[William Flynn Wallace]

Well, I think we are as close to agreement as we are going to get.  bill w

On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 8:42 PM John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 3:17 PM William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> >>If you're playing chess with a brilliant chess AI you won't be able to
>>> predict what its next move will be, if you could you'd be as good at chess
>>> at it is and you're not,  but after it made its move you can easily see
>>> that it wasn't random and was in fact pretty damn smart. You can't predict
>>> what Stephen King's next novel will be but when it come out and you
>>> read it you can be pretty sure it was not made by a monkey banging on a
>>> keyboard.
>>>
>>
>> *> I disagree strongly with all of that.  What you can predict with a
>> great deal of accuracy is the moves the AI won't make, as they would be
>> stupid and self-defeating. *
>>
>
> Intelligent or non-intelligent you can always predict something a system
> won't do but that's a long way from predicting what it will do. And
> besides, the the AI's chess move could look stupid to you at first, in fact
> it probably would and that's why you wouldn't make it yourself, only after
> several more moves do you understand that it wasn't a stupid move at all,
> it was brilliant.
>
> John K Clark
>
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