{"id":1645,"date":"2013-01-30T19:39:50","date_gmt":"2013-01-30T23:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=1645"},"modified":"2013-01-30T19:41:24","modified_gmt":"2013-01-30T23:41:24","slug":"in-search-of-strong-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=1645","title":{"rendered":"In Search of Strong AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While trying to work on my novel, my mind sometimes turns to mush and I can&#8217;t think creatively, at least not in the way that novel-writing calls for.  So I began a journal with which to chronicle my thoughts and explorations as I search for Strong AI.  I would <em>love<\/em> to live to see Strong AI achieved; who wouldn&#8217;t?<\/p>\n<p>My short term goal, however, is to create a computer program that can teach itself to play chess (or any rule-based game) in such a way that we can observe the rules that it learns.  As far as I know, no one has achieved this.  Chess engines focus on number-crunching algorithms, using the computer&#8217;s ability to calculate quickly to its advantage rather than trying to simulate how a human would learn things.  But if we can figure out how a human learns the game, I think the algorithms involved would be far more useful to advancing human knowledge than number-crunching algorithms created specifically for the game.  I want an algorithm that <em>creates<\/em> algorithms.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I have written up my explorations so far in my new little journal.  You can download a <a href=\"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/docs\/InSearchOfStrongAI-Part01.pdf\">PDF of the journal here<\/a>.  It&#8217;s a bit too long and clunky to post as a blog entry.  I hope that as I continue to explore the subject, I will write and upload more journal entries.<\/p>\n<p>Not sure anybody else out there is interested in the subject, but I&#8217;ll put it out there in case anyone is curious.  Join me, and together we will rule the world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/docs\/InSearchOfStrongAI-Part01.pdf\">InSearchOfStrongAI-Part01.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While trying to work on my novel, my mind sometimes turns to mush and I can&#8217;t think creatively, at least not in the way that novel-writing calls for. So I began a journal with which to chronicle my thoughts and explorations as I search for Strong AI. I would love [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[19,57,661],"tags":[344,617,662,618],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7gI4B-qx","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}