[ExI] AIG Bail out

Damien Sullivan phoenix at ugcs.caltech.edu
Wed Sep 24 02:44:31 UTC 2008


On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 04:56:36AM -0700, Lee Corbin wrote:
> Damien S. writes

> >I find it interesting that people who would admire top-down/bottom-up
> >hybrids in other complex systems -- AI models, for example -- are
> >allergic to them in society. :)
> 
> It may not always be the same people. I, for one, who believe
> that a top-down design for an AI will probably not turn out
> to be as successful as systems based upon evolutionary praxis,

Note I said top-down/bottom-up hybrid, like Hofstadter models, not pure
top-down, which hardly anyone is into anymore.

-xx- Damien X-) 



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