Well in Kurzweils’ case, you’d look at the source code and debug it to make sure it’s doinjg everything it’s supposed to, because he’s no dealing with a meat brain.
I guess my real point is that language learning should not be tacked on to the problem of reverse engineering the brain, If he makes something that is as capable of learning, that’s a win for him. (Hopefully he also reverse engineers all of human morality.)
You are assuming the program found via the reverse engineering process is human understandable.… what if it is a strange cellular automata with odd rules. Or an algorithm with parameters you don’t know why they are what they are.
Language is an important part of learning for humans. Imagine trying to learn chess if no one explained the legal moves. Something without the capability for language isn’t such a big win IMHO.
I think we might have different visions of what this reverse engineering would entail, By my concept, if you don’t understand the function of the program you wrote, you’re not done reverse engineering.
I do think that something capable of learning language would be necessary for a win. but the information content of the language does not count towards the complexity estimate of the thing capable of learning langauge.
Well in Kurzweils’ case, you’d look at the source code and debug it to make sure it’s doinjg everything it’s supposed to, because he’s no dealing with a meat brain.
I guess my real point is that language learning should not be tacked on to the problem of reverse engineering the brain, If he makes something that is as capable of learning, that’s a win for him. (Hopefully he also reverse engineers all of human morality.)
You are assuming the program found via the reverse engineering process is human understandable.… what if it is a strange cellular automata with odd rules. Or an algorithm with parameters you don’t know why they are what they are.
Language is an important part of learning for humans. Imagine trying to learn chess if no one explained the legal moves. Something without the capability for language isn’t such a big win IMHO.
I think we might have different visions of what this reverse engineering would entail, By my concept, if you don’t understand the function of the program you wrote, you’re not done reverse engineering.
I do think that something capable of learning language would be necessary for a win. but the information content of the language does not count towards the complexity estimate of the thing capable of learning langauge.