Ai :: Rambling

Artificial intelligence seems to have a loose meaning. To me, a machine has artificial intelligence when its actions are considered intelligent with in its virtual environment. The realm of war craft or a mathematical representation of a checker board are classics examples of a virtual environment. In contrast some would use Ai only when there favorite appliance befriends them.

When we call somthing true, I think of it as being natural, not artificial(fo false). When we program bots to learn, there intelligence is based on our own knowlage of natural laws. Relative to our own intelligence I would call programed intelligence natural. By the same logic, equations humans use to model the world is based on our flawed perceptions and thus would argue that our own intelligence is an artificial one.

Intelligent programs can be made to compete in a virtual medium. This environment should be defined for the program to act upon. The definition of the intelligent programs environment should be based on rules that define the goal of the program. A way of optimizing an intelligent program could be to allow the program to have a life span and to have multiple variations or a population. If its the programs effectiveness can be quantified, statistics can be taken and a mathematical “natural relative to its creator” selective force can be applied to the programs population. The program will need to mutate inorder for the competition to be meaningfull. I would propose to create data collecting programs that attempt to predict some user interaction.

A second layer of mutating for the mutating algorithm. So on recursively I must sound like a crazzy crazzy….

It is when we alowing these creations to learn that a more traditional notion of Ai will be derived. Ai like this would still be a far step from achieving human like social interaction but its a start.