Re^7: How will Artificial Intelligence change the way we code?

> I think your implication that animals can not be conscious is specious.

That's not what I said. Animals know curiosity and boredom. Both are related to stimulus.

> Do you not distinguish between "being bored" and deciding "I'm bored and I'm going to do something about it."?

For instance: Bored cats "creating their own version of stimulation." *

Over-training - one of the problems of machine learning - sounds pretty much like something best solved by defining and minimizing a "boredom" factor.

Cheers Rolf
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update

*) "Bored cats sometimes create their own entertainment—such as playing with toilet paper rolls, climbing the curtains or engaging in other unappreciated behaviors."

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Re^8: How will Artificial Intelligence change the way we code? by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Jun 13, 2018 at 17:55 UTC
I was hovering over this thread with the following. Your boredom insight galvanized me. :P The problem with a boredom factor, as good an idea as it is, is the problem with any and all training and configuration parameters. If they are artificial—human chosen, without ongoing and cascading feedback from all the other factors—they only represent a refinement, acceleration, or automatization of problem solving a human can achieve. The answer to jumping out of this cage is not artificial intelligence but artificial life. The boredom factor, the rewards, the punishments, the breeding cycle, and even the choice of the problem to solve must be a function of the environment and the domain. Humans have a terrible track record of managing nature, even when having the best intentions, and that is what the attempts at AI are, management.	[reply]

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Re^8: How will Artificial Intelligence change the way we code?
by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Jun 13, 2018 at 17:55 UTC

I was hovering over this thread with the following. Your boredom insight galvanized me. :P

The problem with a boredom factor, as good an idea as it is, is the problem with any and all training and configuration parameters. If they are artificial—human chosen, without ongoing and cascading feedback from all the other factors—they only represent a refinement, acceleration, or automatization of problem solving a human can achieve. The answer to jumping out of this cage is not artificial intelligence but artificial life. The boredom factor, the rewards, the punishments, the breeding cycle, and even the choice of the problem to solve must be a function of the environment and the domain. Humans have a terrible track record of managing nature, even when having the best intentions, and that is what the attempts at AI are, management.

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