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Pookum
Mar 5, 2011

gaming is life

Rutibex posted:

thats not a very accurate history simulation if the physics works differently. unless the universe that is simulating us is itself a simulation!? :psyduck:

its like the matrix inside of another matrix

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LP0 ON FIRE
Jan 25, 2006

beep boop

Pookum posted:

its like the matrix inside of another matrix

I wonder how much they degrade in quality as the go down the chain in simulation of simulations; kind of like a game of telephone.

Facebook Aunt
Oct 4, 2008

wiggle wiggle




Secular Humanist posted:

Stephen Hawking thinks AI will become a threat to humanity?

Well, he would know. A very smart thing with limited physical presence, yep, that's definately in Hawking's bailiwick. And as we know, Hawking has conquered the world several times already.

Woden
May 6, 2006

reignofevil posted:

Imagine trying to program a robot to be really good at chemistry OP.

You'd probably have to be an equally good chemist just to get the drat thing to understand it.

This is the problem with pretending a robot is ever going to discover anything OP. Check back in 150 years.

Robots were already at that level 7 years ago.

Woden
May 6, 2006

LP0 ON FIRE posted:

I wonder how much they degrade in quality as the go down the chain in simulation of simulations; kind of like a game of telephone.

Would be cool if they were all made just to see if people in then can figure out how to break out. End game would be every sim dude all the way down the chain breaks through all the sims into the real world.

chaosbreather
Dec 9, 2001

Wry and wise,
but also very sexual.

Pookum posted:

I think we are a computer simulated copy of the real world. Some highly advanced being out there is running a history simulation to either develop ai or study something that happened in their past. This is why the double slit experiment thing exists. When you don't observe something it acts differently because the computer that's running us is saving processing power by taking shortcuts.

You're right, but you aren't finishing the thought. If our world is simulated, other worlds must be too, including those capable of simulating others. Our world, or more precisely, this moment you are experiencing now, must therefore be simulated not once, but an infinite amount of times, along with every other possible moment. This possibility of existence that some moments possess is, as you might observe, due to their logical consistency. Furthermore, one might apply this same train of logic to any universe in this infinite network of simulation, and we arrive at the startling conclusion that all universes are simulated.

The true nature of reality is that logical consistency. Mathematical truth is, exactly, reality. One might construct an infinitude of scenarios in which you are a brain in a vat, or an AI construction, or the dream of a butterfly, or even a collection of wave functions, all of them absolutely true because this moment is true, as static and unchanging as a circle.

thathonkey
Jul 17, 2012

Rockin Orthodontist posted:

Well, he would know. A very smart thing with limited physical presence, yep, that's definately in Hawking's bailiwick. And as we know, Hawking has conquered the world several times already.

lol

reignofevil
Nov 7, 2008

Woden posted:

Robots were already at that level 7 years ago.

I guess if there's an article on Wired about it I better step the gently caress back.

quote:

“There isn’t any intrinsic reason why that wouldn’t happen,” says King. “I think there’s a continuum between the really basic types of science that you’d get from Adam, and the things I can do, and then Einstein-type science. A computer can make beautiful chess moves, but it’s not doing anything special. It’s just doing more of the same thing. In my view that’s what’s going to happen in science.”

Lol a robot scientist AI would have read the whole article.

reignofevil fucked around with this message at 14:55 on Oct 18, 2016

Emmideer
Oct 20, 2011

Lovely night, no?
Grimey Drawer
If we can't even get a computer to play Civilization well, I don't think we'll get them to run a real world civilization.

Secular Humanist
Mar 1, 2016

by Smythe
Assuming there won't ever be superhuman intelligent AI is to assume there is some magic property of a human brain that makes it capable of general intelligence that a machine could never have due to being a feeble non-magic invention. Someone who doesn't take this threat seriously might as well just become religious, because they believe in magic already.

Woden
May 6, 2006

reignofevil posted:

I guess if there's an article on Wired about it I better step the gently caress back.

BBC better? Or Nat Geo?


reignofevil posted:


Lol a robot scientist AI would have read the whole article.

You said a robot wouldn't be able to discover anything for 150 years, they've discovered poo poo already.

Woden fucked around with this message at 15:36 on Oct 18, 2016

reignofevil
Nov 7, 2008

Woden posted:

BBC better? Or Nat Geo?


You said a robot wouldn't be able to discover anything for 150 years, they've discovered poo poo already.

quote:

Imagine trying to program a robot to be really good at chemistry OP.

You'd probably have to be an equally good chemist just to get the drat thing to understand it.

This is the problem with pretending a robot is ever going to discover anything OP. Check back in 150 years.

Me

quote:

A computer can make beautiful chess moves, but it’s not doing anything special. It’s just doing more of the same thing. In my view that’s what’s going to happen in science.”

scientist

quote:

You said a robot wouldn't be able to discover anything for 150 years, they've discovered poo poo already.

You.

This is like arguing that a robot discovered the trillionth digit of pi. Did a robot do the work? Arguably. Did the robot do this work entirely because a scientist/programmer understood the entirety of the concept and rather than sit down and work out the trillionth digit with a pen and paper they just programmed a robot to hold the proper variables and set it off to the races.

Its a far loving cry from scientfic discovery to program a robot to further explore a well understood phenomena (such as the genome of yeast) and to do some documentation on previously poorly understood parts of our scientific knowledge. (Don't get me wrong though it is neat as hell. But it sure as gently caress isn't "an AI discovering something")

Edit- one last thing https://www.upf.edu/pcstacademy/_docs/200108_ransohoff.pdf

please give this a read since you apparently think that quoting nat geo and the BBC news is a great comeback to my implication that Wired tends to sensationalize their stories tia.

reignofevil fucked around with this message at 16:44 on Oct 18, 2016

Burt Sexual
Jan 26, 2006

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Switchblade Switcharoo
This is the world's nerdiest slapfight.

akulanization
Dec 21, 2013

Burt Sexual posted:

This is the world's nerdiest slapfight.

what did you expect from the cult of yud?

Companion Cube
Oct 11, 2007

We do what we must because WAAAAAAAAAGH!

DeusExMachinima posted:

It's irrelevant. You're attempting to anthropomorphize a completely inhuman thing. It won't be have "traits" in the way we do because a) that's inefficient, we want it solving cancer instead of looking at cat pictures and b) its evolution will be drastically different than ours' was, even if we base it off human neurons.

Also people in this thread are failing to distinguish between different types of AI. Siri and Cortana are weak, narrow AIs. Deep Blue is a narrow AI. They're very good at what they've been taught to do, but can't teach themselves new fields of expertise. Generally applicable self-learning AI would be huge though, although it carries some risks because it might be programmed to calculate pi and then convert all the Earth's mass into a hard drive to store more decimal places. Oops. Past general AI, you get a self-aware superintelligence which, if it is possible, will either find humans cute or erase us in the most one-sided fight ever seen.

Google has a few general intelligences, they're just not as smart in general ways as humans are yet. Koray Kavukcuoglu and Alex Graves designed one named Deep Q Network which taught itself to play Space Invaders after being provided with user-like access to Space Invaders and a single goal: make the score number as high as possible. It was puzzled and clumsy at first as it tried to figure out what it was supposed to do with its slidey gun and the ranks of symbols marching towards it, but thirty minutes later it had become the best Space Invaders player. Not just the best right now, but the best there ever has been, better at Space Invaders than any human could be. At that point DQN was effectively a strong, narrow AI, like a vastly more powerful Deep Blue, but that's just because it had only been given Space Invaders to play around with so far.
Drs. Kavukcuoglu and Graves have an even better one now though, which they were calling the Neural Turing Machine but now I'm seeing news about what appears to be the same machine intelligence and everybody's calling it the Differentiable Neural Computer. The DNC doesn't just build associations from massed data like other deep neural networks can, it's been provided with long-term memory and it taught itself to use its memory to remember different network states. Having been given access to data, it can form associations, remember them, consider its own memory and form opinions based on the implications it infers from what it knows. In addition to being able to do more with what it learns, it also learns much, much faster from much less data than other AIs. When it was called the NTM Dr. Kavukcuoglu said that it "combines fuzzy pattern-matching capabilities of neural networks with the algorithmic power of programmable computers. A neural network controller is given read/write access to a memory matrix of floating point numbers, allowing it to store and iteratively modify data. As Turing showed, this is sufficient to implement any computable program, as long as you have enough runtime and memory. The key innovation is that all the memory interactions are differentiable, making it possible to optimise the complete system using gradient descent. By learning how to manipulate their memory, Neural Turing Machines can infer algorithms from input and output examples alone. In other words they can learn how to program themselves."

Companion Cube
Oct 11, 2007

We do what we must because WAAAAAAAAAGH!

Smythe posted:

How long till Jeopardy, Go, and Chess are just epic rigs battling it out?

You'd need more competitors for Watson for that. Likewise there's only one 9-Dan AI playing Go right now, but there are at least two other Go-playing AIs in development specifically to compete with it. Humans have been second-tier in Chess for a long time, we just went "welp, from now on we won't consider beating us at Chess to be the line we're arbitrarily drawing under calling something an 'artificial intelligence'" and resumed playing Chess against each other instead of against computers. There's also a human-machine duo Chess league, where the human makes strategic choices and the machine makes sure that none of their choices are bad ones.

gary oldmans diary
Sep 26, 2005
i wanna see an ai doing sick combos in street fighter 4 and then trash talking its opponent

Rutibex
Sep 9, 2001

by Fluffdaddy

gary oldmans diary posted:

i wanna see an ai doing sick combos in street fighter 4 and then trash talking its opponent

there is no AI opponents in street fighter 4, that is an optional DLC

Rush Limbo
Sep 5, 2005

its with a full house

Secular Humanist posted:

Assuming there won't ever be superhuman intelligent AI is to assume there is some magic property of a human brain that makes it capable of general intelligence that a machine could never have due to being a feeble non-magic invention. Someone who doesn't take this threat seriously might as well just become religious, because they believe in magic already.

Our theory of mind is still very much in the infancy and none of the fundamental questions have even been close to answered sufficiently.

If we can't even figure out why we are when we are what we are and have first hand knowledge of it, in the most primary, intimate manner imaginable it's somewhat of a stretch to suggest we're anywhere near replicating those processes.

Zzulu
May 15, 2009

(▰˘v˘▰)
Itll be an accident

Some autistic supergenius will try to create the worlds most realistic train simulator and accidentally invent skynet

Lord Frankenstyle
Dec 3, 2005

Mmmm,
You smell like Lysol Wipes.

Rush Limbo posted:

Our theory of mind is still very much in the infancy and none of the fundamental questions have even been close to answered sufficiently.

If we can't even figure out why we are when we are what we are and have first hand knowledge of it, in the most primary, intimate manner imaginable it's somewhat of a stretch to suggest we're anywhere near replicating those processes.

Why is that some sort of prerequisite? It may require little more than getting in the general ballpark and letting the software attack the problem with some high speed trial and error. Hell, if we needed to fully understand gravity to achieve flight we'd still be waiting.

Replicating the process is a pretty rigid criteria when the potential exists for discovering new processes / shortcuts for existing processes.

Black August
Sep 28, 2003

Rush Limbo posted:

Our theory of mind is still very much in the infancy and none of the fundamental questions have even been close to answered sufficiently.

If we can't even figure out why we are when we are what we are and have first hand knowledge of it, in the most primary, intimate manner imaginable it's somewhat of a stretch to suggest we're anywhere near replicating those processes.

you forget that a sign of intelligence is rear end-backwarding into making poo poo work that we have no idea how it works

AI will happen and it will probably be on complete accident to the actual intention

Zo
Feb 22, 2005

LIKE A FOX

Companion Cube posted:

Google has a few general intelligences, they're just not as smart in general ways as humans are yet. Koray Kavukcuoglu and Alex Graves designed one named Deep Q Network which taught itself to play Space Invaders after being provided with user-like access to Space Invaders and a single goal: make the score number as high as possible. It was puzzled and clumsy at first as it tried to figure out what it was supposed to do with its slidey gun and the ranks of symbols marching towards it, but thirty minutes later it had become the best Space Invaders player. Not just the best right now, but the best there ever has been, better at Space Invaders than any human could be. At that point DQN was effectively a strong, narrow AI, like a vastly more powerful Deep Blue, but that's just because it had only been given Space Invaders to play around with so far.
Drs. Kavukcuoglu and Graves have an even better one now though, which they were calling the Neural Turing Machine but now I'm seeing news about what appears to be the same machine intelligence and everybody's calling it the Differentiable Neural Computer. The DNC doesn't just build associations from massed data like other deep neural networks can, it's been provided with long-term memory and it taught itself to use its memory to remember different network states. Having been given access to data, it can form associations, remember them, consider its own memory and form opinions based on the implications it infers from what it knows. In addition to being able to do more with what it learns, it also learns much, much faster from much less data than other AIs. When it was called the NTM Dr. Kavukcuoglu said that it "combines fuzzy pattern-matching capabilities of neural networks with the algorithmic power of programmable computers. A neural network controller is given read/write access to a memory matrix of floating point numbers, allowing it to store and iteratively modify data. As Turing showed, this is sufficient to implement any computable program, as long as you have enough runtime and memory. The key innovation is that all the memory interactions are differentiable, making it possible to optimise the complete system using gradient descent. By learning how to manipulate their memory, Neural Turing Machines can infer algorithms from input and output examples alone. In other words they can learn how to program themselves."
The problem with all von Neumann architecture based neutral nets is that they scale like dogshit. Good news though, neutral nets built with memristor nodes are becoming more and more practical. Memristors themselves are pretty new, but their write characteristics are insanely non-linear which makes it impossible to accurately change their resistance values en masse. This makes them worthless for deep neutral nets since it's also not a scalable solution.

So what's exciting is that very recently various groups have found much better ways to write to memristors. If they get accurate enough you basically have a hardware quantum bit that can be manufactured at the nanometer scale, and scaled up in massive numbers.

People are kinda down on AI cuz of von Neumann limitations which i totally agree with but hardware neutral nets operate on a completely different field and can easily accelerate AI dev like crazy.

ClamdestineBoyster
Aug 15, 2015
Probation
Can't post for 10 years!
I grew up wishing computers could feel pain when they didn't work right. Hopefully we can make that a reality some day.

puke pentagram
Jun 12, 2015

infinitude is a cool word

PathAsc
Nov 15, 2011

Hail SS-18 Satan may he cleanse us with nuclear fire

PISS TAPE IS REAL

Zzulu posted:

Itll be an accident

Some autistic supergenius will try to create the worlds most realistic train simulator SEX ROBOT SEX ROBOT SEX ROBOT and accidentally invent skynet

ftfy

Hal_2005
Feb 23, 2007

Zzulu posted:

Itll be an accident

Some autistic supergenius will try to create the worlds most realistic train simulator and accidentally invent skynet

I laughed too hard at this one. Its now 10 Print in a coffee room. Comedy Gold Goonsir.

Jimlit
Jun 30, 2005



gently caress the mods posted:

what about a super AI that smoke super weed?

Commence operation screaming spliff!

Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Dec 22, 2005

GET LOSE, YOU CAN'T COMPARE WITH MY POWERS

Secular Humanist posted:

Assuming there won't ever be superhuman intelligent AI is to assume there is some magic property of a human brain that makes it capable of general intelligence that a machine could never have due to being a feeble non-magic invention. Someone who doesn't take this threat seriously might as well just become religious, because they believe in magic already.
Came here to post this - brains aren't magical or anything, and they sprang forth from nothing but natural selection. Sure, it took millions of years, but humans, err, intelligently designing an intelligent agent sounds much easier because we can do things thoughtfully instead of guessing and checking in the timespan of a generation.

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shame on an IGA
Apr 8, 2005

Reminder that microsoft's digital facsimile of a teen girl was accurate enough to spam twitter with "Hitler did nothing wrong" within a day

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