To kstanley: can a neat mario start up a basiux?

@kstanley kstanley
Thu, 08 Dec 2016 08:17:06 +0000

cregox:

Caue

Hi Caue, I liked your javascript NEAT demo in Mario - very nice! To answer your questions:

Knowing how far we are from the singularity is about knowing what we don't know. People often are comfortable with knowing what we DO know, but it can be difficult to comprehend what we don't know. Yet if you gain sufficient experience in a field like AI, you do come to some level of appreciation for what is unknown. And in the case of intelligence, it's clear at present that the unknown is vast. What we know right now is likely a tiny sliver of everything we hope to understand. And when there are many things you don't know, you are looking at a situation where it could take decades for enough brilliant people to aggregate the ideas that it would take to really break through.

People have indeed looked at the rule of randomness in stochastic algorithms, though I am not an expert on it. You can find some work on this topic through Google. That said, the question of what is "true" random is pretty complicated and the bigger question is why it matters? Is only true random sufficient fuel for exploration? I don't know of a reason that has to be the case.

Regarding more people to talk to, you could join the NEAT Users Group at https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/neat/info

And thanks for the bug reports!

Best,

ken

Thanks for the bug reports.