[ExI] An AI program that teaches itself

[Dave Sill]

On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 9:42 PM, John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:
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> ​A computer program ​that does the same thing as another but is smaller
> and executes faster is objectively better.
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Smaller is better, all other things being equal. So is faster. But those
are two different things. Maybe the fastest possible program to do X is ten
times larger than the smallest. Memory is cheap these days but time is
always precious. For any but the most trivial tasks, though, the quality of
the output is likely to be far more important than executable size or speed
of execution. And for programs that have to deal with raw input, robustness
might be more important than anything except getting the right answer.

The bottom line is that real-world problem solving is vastly more
complicated than evaluating board game playing ability.

-Dave
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