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Subject: Re: If Not Self-Awareness, then How About Self-Monitoring?

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 18:33:52 11/04/02

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On November 04, 2002 at 20:22:44, Bob Durrett wrote:

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>I guess people think trying to program self-awareness into their chess engines
>is getting dangerously close to trying to create life.  That is clearly taboo
>for chess programmers.

Not necessarily taboo.  Just beyond what is possible right now.  In 20 years or
so, we will be able to create computers smarter than we are.

>So how about just adding code to do "self-monitoring" and "self-adjustment"
>during and between games?  That wouldn't be taboo, would it?  It could almost be
>called "learning."  You don't have to be alive to learn, do you?

Lots of computer programs learn.
There is TD-Lambda learning
There is book learning
There is position learning

Probably some other kinds too.

The real problem is the compute power.  The reason we don't have computer
programs that learn in the way that humans do is that we don't have the
horsepower to do it.  Hence, some other method than a neural net with feedback
is needed.



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