[ExI] Whistling past the graveyard

Adrian Tymes atymes at gmail.com
Wed Apr 6 20:09:31 UTC 2016


On Apr 6, 2016 11:15 AM, "William Flynn Wallace" <foozler83 at gmail.com>
wrote:
>  Isn't that what the programmers expected it to do?

No.

Or more specifically: they expected it to be good at go.  They did not
expect several of the specifics that it came up with.

That may seem a trivial, semantic difference, but it's really not.  It is
the core of the distinction between what your teachers (programmers) taught
you (programmed you with), and what you have done with that knowledge.

These specifics, which the programmers did not have, can then be analyzed
or otherwise used to develop more knowledge.

Unless you want to claim that we are all automatons - including and
especially yourself - with no original thoughts ever.  What it did is at
least as original to itself as any human go player has done.
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