<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 7:40 PM, William Flynn Wallace <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com" target="_blank">foozler83@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">1 - If you don't understand the problem how do you know you have a solution? What I think you mean is that the algorithm is more useful than you thought - serendipity. I don't think this is what you mean.</span></div><div style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">2 - Or reading your sentence another way, you know the problem, you created an algorithm, and the answers you got you don't understand. Then how do you know the solution is correct? Maybe the algorithm is flawed - that is, it does things you did not intend. (I am betting on 2)</span></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>### There are many problems where finding the solution is very difficult but verifying it is trivial. Factoring a very large number might take hundreds of years by hand but verifying that a set of numbers are factors of that number is easy.</div><div>-----------</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">I know I am out of my league here, and I have no trouble giving credit to AI if that is due. But the AI has to follow the programming, right? How does that earn credit? </span></div><div style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div></div></blockquote><div>### If a bulldozer digs a hole, is it the operator's achievement, or the bulldozer's?</div><div><br></div><div>If an autonomous bulldozer digs a hole, is it the manufacturer's achievement, or the bulldozer's?</div><div><br></div><div>If an autonomous, superintelligent, nanotechnological, time-traveling, faster-than-light bulldozer built by luminous, ethereal robots designed by godlike AI designed by simpler AI designed by yet simpler AI.... invents a way of digging holes into other universes, does Sergey Brin get the credit?</div><div><br></div><div>Rafał</div></div>
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