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2016/08/15 | 1,828 | 7,658 | <issue_start>username_0: Hypothetically, assume that you have access to infinite computing power. Do we have designs for any brute-force algorithms that can find an AI capable of passing traditional tests (e.g. Turing, Chinese Room, MIST, etc.)?<issue_comment>username_1: What 'infinite' means here could possibly be deb... |
2016/08/15 | 1,137 | 4,537 | <issue_start>username_0: Would it be possible to put [Asimov's three Laws of Robotics](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics) into an AI?
The three laws are:
1. A robot (or, more accurately, an AI) cannot harm a human being, or through inaction allow a human being to be harmed1
2. A robot must listen t... |
2016/08/16 | 1,284 | 5,456 | <issue_start>username_0: I'd like to investigate the possibility of achieving similar recognition as it's in [Honda's ASIMO robot](http://asimo.honda.com/downloads/pdf/asimo-technical-information.pdf)p.22 which can interpret the positioning and movement of a hand, including postures and gestures based on visual informa... |
2016/08/16 | 1,013 | 4,362 | <issue_start>username_0: For example, could you provide reasons why a sundial is *not* "intelligent"?
A sundial senses its environment and acts rationally. It outputs the time. It also stores percepts. (The numbers the engineer wrote on it.)
What properties of a self driving car would make it "intelligent"?
Where is... |
2016/08/17 | 1,060 | 4,511 | <issue_start>username_0: We can read on [Wikipedia page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TensorFlow#Tensor_processing_unit_.28TPU.29) that Google built a custom ASIC chip for machine learning and tailored for TensorFlow which helps to accelerate AI.
Since ASIC chips are specially customized for one particular use withou... |
2016/08/18 | 977 | 3,615 | <issue_start>username_0: I've [uploaded a picture](https://www.imageidentify.com/result/0lkzuttdxipub) to Wolfram's ImageIdentify of graffiti on the wall, but it recognized it as 'monocle'. Secondary guesses were 'primate', 'hominid', and 'person', so not even close to 'graffiti' or 'painting'.
Is it by design, or the... |
2016/08/19 | 5,878 | 24,341 | <issue_start>username_0: In a [recent Wall Street Journal article](http://www.wsj.com/articles/whats-next-for-artificial-intelligence-1465827619), <NAME> makes the following statement:
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> The next step in achieving human-level ai is creating intelligent—but not autonomous—machines. The AI system in your car will get... |
2016/08/25 | 1,370 | 5,973 | <issue_start>username_0: Can someone explain to me the difference between machine learning and deep learning? Is it possible to learn deep learning without knowing machine learning?<issue_comment>username_1: Deep learning is a specific variety of a specific type of machine learning. So it's possible to learn about deep... |
2016/08/29 | 6,052 | 23,888 | <issue_start>username_0: In [Portal 2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal_2) we see that AI's can be "*killed*" by thinking about a paradox.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/wkUSC.png)
I assume this works by forcing the AI into an infinite loop which would es... |
2016/08/29 | 3,338 | 14,171 | <issue_start>username_0: In the 1950s, there were widely-held beliefs that "Artificial Intelligence" will quickly become both self-conscious and smart-enough to win chess with humans. Various people suggested time frames of e.g. 10 years (see Olazaran's "Official History of the Perceptron Controversy", or let say 2001:... |
2016/08/30 | 3,618 | 14,608 | <issue_start>username_0: An AI box is a (physical) barrier preventing an AI from using too much of his environment to accomplish his final goal. For example, an AI given the task to check, say, 1050 cases of a mathematical conjecture as fast as possible, might decide that it would be better to also take control over al... |
2016/08/30 | 2,762 | 10,760 | <issue_start>username_0: AI systems today are very capable machines, and recently the area of Natural Language Processing and Response has been exploding with innovation, as well as the fundamental algorithmic structure of AI machines.
I am asking if, given these recent breakthroughs, have any AI systems been develope... |
2016/09/01 | 1,661 | 6,853 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm reading such nonsense about how an AI would turn the world into a supercomputer to solve a problem that it thought it needed to solve. That wouldn't be AI. That's procedural programming stuck in some loop nonsense. An AI would need to evolve and re-organise its neurons. It wouldn't be stuck... |
2016/09/02 | 513 | 1,658 | <issue_start>username_0: How big artificial neural networks can we run now (either with full train-backprop cycle or just evaluating network outputs) if our total energy budget for computation is equivalent to the human brain energy budget ([12.6 watts](http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/thinking-hard-calories/)... |
2016/09/02 | 2,012 | 8,285 | <issue_start>username_0: >
> Artificial Intelligence is a rather pernicious label to attach to a very mixed bunch of activities, and one could argue that the sooner we forget it the better. It would be disastrous to conclude that AI was a Bad Thing and should not be supported, and it would be disastrous to conclude th... |
2016/09/03 | 459 | 2,047 | <issue_start>username_0: Sometimes I understand that people doing *cognitive science* try to avoid the term *artificial intelligence*. The feeling I get is that there is a need to put some distance to the [GOFAI](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_artificial_intelligence).
Another impression that I get is that *co... |
2016/09/04 | 1,564 | 6,443 | <issue_start>username_0: The English Language is not well-suited to talking about artificial intelligence, which makes it difficult for humans to communicate to each other about what an AI is actually "doing". Thus, it may make more sense to use "human-like" terms to describe the actions of machinery, even when the int... |
2016/09/05 | 1,123 | 4,600 | <issue_start>username_0: <NAME> did some interesting work on language processing with Conceptual Dependency (CD) in the 1970s. He then moved somewhat out of the field, being in Education these days. There were some useful applications in natural language generation (BABEL), story generation (TAILSPIN) and other areas, ... |
2016/09/06 | 1,113 | 4,562 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been studying local search algorithms such as greedy hill-climbing, stochastic hill-climbing, simulated annealing, etc. I have noticed that most of these methods take up very little memory as compared to systematic search techniques.
Are there local search algorithms that make use of me... |
2016/09/07 | 1,286 | 5,300 | <issue_start>username_0: *I know that every program has some positive and negative points, and I know maybe .net programming languages are not the best for AI programming.*
**But I prefer .net programming languages because of my experiences and would like to know for an AI program which one is better, C or C++ or C# a... |
2016/09/07 | 2,763 | 12,028 | <issue_start>username_0: Why is search important in AI? What kinds of search algorithms are used in AI? How do they improve the result of an AI?<issue_comment>username_1: Search is important for at least two reasons.
First, searching is one of the early and major consumers of advanced machine learning, as finding the ... |
2016/09/07 | 2,118 | 8,246 | <issue_start>username_0: Considering the answers of [this](https://ai.stackexchange.com/questions/1314/how-powerful-a-computer-is-required-to-simulate-the-human-brain) question, emulating a human brain with the current computing capacity is currently impossible, but we aren't very far from it.
Note, 1 or 2 decades ago... |
2016/09/08 | 1,899 | 7,364 | <issue_start>username_0: Conceptually speaking, aren't artificial neural networks just highly distributed, lossy compression schemes?
They're certainly efficient at [compressing images](https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/courses/soco/projects/neural-networks/Applications/imagecompression.html).
And aren't brains... |
2016/09/08 | 4,517 | 18,465 | <issue_start>username_0: Consciousness [is challenging to define](http://www.iep.utm.edu/consciou/), but for this question let's define it as "actually experiencing sensory input as opposed to just putting a bunch of data through an inanimate machine." Humans, of course, have minds; for normal computers, all the things... |
2016/09/08 | 4,438 | 18,141 | <issue_start>username_0: A lot of textbooks and introductory lectures typically split AI into connectionism and GOFAI (Good Old Fashioned AI). From a purely technical perspective, it seems that [connectionism](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/connectionism/) has grown into machine learning and data science, while nob... |
2016/09/09 | 599 | 2,570 | <issue_start>username_0: Self-Recognition seems to be an item that designers are trying to integrate into artificial intelligence. Is there a generally recognized method of doing this in a machine, and how would one test the capacity - as in a Turing-Test?<issue_comment>username_1: Interesting question. I don't think a... |
2016/09/10 | 713 | 2,990 | <issue_start>username_0: Inattentional Blindness is common in humans (see: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inattentional_blindness> ). Could this also be common with machines built with artificial vision?<issue_comment>username_1: Presumably what happens to people in the famous [Invisible Gorilla](http://www.theinvisibl... |
2016/09/10 | 2,566 | 10,574 | <issue_start>username_0: Can one actually kill a machine? Not only do we have problems in defining life, we also have problems in defining death. Will this also be true in artificial life and artificial intelligence?<issue_comment>username_1: If AI arises from a replicable manufacturing process (e.g. as with modern com... |
2016/09/10 | 779 | 3,194 | <issue_start>username_0: Generally, people can be classified as aggressive (Type A) or passive. Could the programming of AI systems cause aggressive or passive behavior in those AIs?<issue_comment>username_1: As can be observed in the real world with creatures such as fighting fish, such things are possible even in ver... |
2016/09/10 | 527 | 2,073 | <issue_start>username_0: Assuming mankind will eventually create artificial humans, but in doing so have we put equal effort into how humans will relate to an artificial human, and what can we expect in return? This is happening in real-time as we place AI trucks and cars on the road. Do people have the right to questi... |
2016/09/10 | 563 | 2,198 | <issue_start>username_0: AI death is still unclear a concept, as it may take several forms and allow for "coming back from the dead". For example, an AI could be somehow forbidden to do anything (no permission to execute), because it infringed some laws.
"Somehow forbid" is the topic of this question. There will proba... |
2016/09/11 | 851 | 3,457 | <issue_start>username_0: Can self-driving cars deal with snow, heavy rain, or other weather conditions like these? Can they deal with unusual events, such as [ducks on the road](http://beijingcream.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Ducks-galore-2.jpeg)?
[](https:/... |
2016/09/12 | 536 | 2,297 | <issue_start>username_0: Most of the people is trying to answer question with a neural network. However, has anyone came up with some thoughts about how to make neural network ask questions, instead of answer questions? For example, if a CNN can decide which category an object belongs to, than can it ask some question ... |
2016/09/13 | 978 | 3,210 | <issue_start>username_0: The Mars Exploration Rover (MER) *[Opportunity](http://www.nasa.gov/mp4/618340main_mer20120124-320-jpl.mp4)* landed on Mars on January 25, 2004. The rover was originally designed for a 90 **Sol mission** (a Sol, one Martian day, is slightly longer than an Earth day at 24 hours and 37 minutes). ... |
2016/09/14 | 1,062 | 4,357 | <issue_start>username_0: Are there any ongoing AI projects which use the Stack Exchange for machine learning?<issue_comment>username_1: There certainly appear to have been research projects involving some form of text mining / information retrieval /etc. and StackExchange sites.
Some examples I was able to find throug... |
2016/09/14 | 1,110 | 4,280 | <issue_start>username_0: Mankind can create machines to do work. How could we define passion in artificial intelligence? How could we define a passionate AI?
Would passion cause the machine to do a better job? How could we compare the performance of a passionate machine, as opposed to a non-passionate one? How could w... |
2016/09/14 | 1,150 | 4,671 | <issue_start>username_0: If IQ were used as a measure of the intelligence of machines, as in humans, at this point in time, what would be the IQ of our most intelligent AI systems?
If not IQ, then how best to compare our intelligence to a machine, or one machine to another?
This question is not asking if we can measu... |
2016/09/14 | 1,013 | 3,871 | <issue_start>username_0: I was think about AIs and how they would work, when I realised that I couldn't think of a way that an AI could be taught language. A child tends to learn language through associations of language and pictures to an object (e.g., people saying the word "dog" while around a dog, and later realisi... |
2016/09/15 | 940 | 3,992 | <issue_start>username_0: * Would AI be a self-propogating iteration in which the previous AI is
destroyed by a more optimised AI child?
* Would the AI have branches of it's own AI warning not to create the new AI?<issue_comment>username_1: A common concept in AI is "recursive self-improvement." That is, the AI 1.0 woul... |
2016/09/15 | 404 | 1,819 | <issue_start>username_0: According to the Wikipedia article on [deep learning](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_learning):
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> Deep learning is a branch of machine learning based on a set of algorithms that attempt to model high-level abstractions in data by using a deep graph with multiple processing layers, compo... |
2016/09/15 | 587 | 2,758 | <issue_start>username_0: Are Convolutional Neural Networks summarily better than pattern recognition in all existing image processing libraries that don't use CNN's? Or are there still hard outstanding problems in image processing that seem to be beyond their capability?<issue_comment>username_1: It would not be wise t... |
2016/09/18 | 2,062 | 6,904 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been messing around in [tensorflow playground](http://playground.tensorflow.org/#activation=tanh&batchSize=10&dataset=spiral®Dataset=reg-plane&learningRate=0.03®ularizationRate=0&noise=0&networkShape=4,2&seed=0.73263&showTestData=false&discretize=false&percTrainData=50&x=true&y=true&xTim... |
2016/09/18 | 1,219 | 5,206 | <issue_start>username_0: A "general intelligence" may be capable of learning a lot of different things, but possessing capability does not equal actually having it. The "AGI" must learn...and that learning process can take time. If you want an AGI to drive a car or play Go, you have to find some way of "teaching" it. K... |
2016/09/20 | 1,720 | 6,101 | <issue_start>username_0: The question is about the architecture of Deep Residual Networks (**ResNets**). The model that won the 1-st places at ["Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge 2015" (ILSVRC2015)](http://image-net.org/challenges/LSVRC/2015/results) in all five main tracks:
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> * *ImageNet Classification: “Ul... |
2016/09/20 | 559 | 2,336 | <issue_start>username_0: In my attempt at trying to learn neural network and machine learning I'm am trying to create a simple neural network which can be trained to recognise one word from a given string (which contains only one word). So in effect if one where to feed it a string containing the trained word but spell... |
2016/09/21 | 1,728 | 6,590 | <issue_start>username_0: In 2004 [<NAME>](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Hawkins), inventor of the palm pilot, published a very interesting book called [On Intelligence](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Intelligence), in which he details a theory how the human neocortex works.
This theory is called [Memory-Predict... |
2016/09/23 | 1,439 | 5,847 | <issue_start>username_0: As far as I can tell, neural networks have a **fixed number of neurons** in the input layer.
If neural networks are used in a context like NLP, sentences or blocks of text of varying sizes are fed to a network.
How is the **varying input size** reconciled with the **fixed size** of the input ... |
2016/09/25 | 712 | 2,888 | <issue_start>username_0: In my estimation we have two minds which manage to speak to each other in dialectic through a series of interrupts. Thus at any one time one of these systems is controlling master and inhabits our consciousness. The subordinate system controls context which is constantly being "primed" by our s... |
2016/09/27 | 1,786 | 7,529 | <issue_start>username_0: In the recent PC game *[The Turing Test](http://www.theturingtestgame.com/)*, the AI ("TOM") needs help from Ava to get through some puzzle rooms. TOM says he is unable to solve the puzzles because he is not allowed to "[think laterally](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateral_thinking)." Specifi... |
2016/09/29 | 1,158 | 5,134 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a freshman to machine learning. We all know that there are 2 kinds of problems in our life: problems that humans can solve and problems we can't solve. For problems humans can solve, we always try our best to write some algorithm and tell machine to follow it step by step, and finally the m... |
2016/09/29 | 1,708 | 7,142 | <issue_start>username_0: This is a question about a nomenclature - we already have the algorithm/solution, but we're not sure whether it qualifies as utilizing heuristics or not.
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feel free to skip the problem explanation:
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> A friend is writing a path-finding algorithm - an autopilot for an
> (off-road) vehic... |
2016/09/29 | 1,198 | 4,641 | <issue_start>username_0: I understand how a neural network can be trained to recognise certain features in an image (faces, cars, ...), where the inputs are the image's pixels, and the output is a set of boolean values indicating which objects were recognised in the image and which weren't.
What I don't really get is,... |
2016/09/29 | 1,104 | 4,183 | <issue_start>username_0: If said AI can assess scenarios and decide what AI is best suited and construct new AI for new tasks. In sufficient time would the AI not have developed a suite of AIs powerful/specialized for their tasks, but versatile as a whole, much like our own brain’s architecture? What’s the constraint ?... |
2016/09/30 | 3,337 | 12,521 | <issue_start>username_0: AI is progressing drastically, and imagine they tell you you're fired because a robot will take your place. What are some jobs that can never be automated?<issue_comment>username_1: If you were to completely automate a human, you'd just have another human, which defeats the purpose of the autom... |
2016/10/01 | 1,057 | 4,444 | <issue_start>username_0: For years, I have been dealing with (and teaching) Knowledge Representation and Knowledge Representation languages. I just discovered that in another community (Information Systems and the such) there is something called the "DIKW pyramid" where they add another step after knowledge, namely wis... |
2016/10/03 | 1,065 | 4,723 | <issue_start>username_0: Here is one of the most serious questions, about the artificial intelligence.
How will the machine know the difference between right and wrong, what is good and bad, what is respect, dignity, faith and empathy.
A machine can recognize what is correct and incorrect, what is right and what... |
2016/10/04 | 774 | 2,827 | <issue_start>username_0: [From this SE question](https://ai.stackexchange.com/questions/2067/will-ai-be-able-to-adapt):
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> Will be AI able to adapt, to different environments and changes.
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This is my attempt at interpreting that question.
Evolutionary algorithms are useful for solving optimization problems... |
2016/10/06 | 1,154 | 4,173 | <issue_start>username_0: In a classic example of a genetic algorithm, you would have a population and a certain amount of simulation time to evaluate it and breeding. Then proceed to the next generation.
Is it possible, during the simulation process, to have an isolated and small part of the population and keep it evo... |
2016/10/06 | 1,055 | 3,661 | <issue_start>username_0: Obviously this is hypothetical, but is true? I know "perfect fitness function" is a bit hand-wavy, but I mean it as we have a perfect way to measure the completion of any problem.<issue_comment>username_1: There have been extensive studies within *evolutionary computation* in the area of [*isla... |
2016/10/07 | 1,268 | 5,368 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm curious about Artificial Intelligence. In my regular job, I develop standard applications, like websites with basic functionalities, like user subscription, file upload, or forms saved in a database.
I mainly know of AI being used in games or robotics fields. But can it be useful in "stand... |
2016/10/09 | 1,217 | 5,135 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm trying to gain some intuition beyond definitions, in any possible dimension. I'd appreciate references to read.<issue_comment>username_1: Yes, but probably only to a limited degree in the near term.
Where people draw the boundaries around 'artificial intelligence' is fuzzy, but if one take... |
2016/10/10 | 7,973 | 31,334 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a bit confused about the definition of life. Can AI systems be called 'living'? Because they can do most of the things that we can. They can even communicate with one another.
They are not formed of what we call cells. But, you see, cells are just a collection of several chemical processe... |
2016/10/11 | 1,111 | 4,542 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm interested mostly in the application of AI in gaming; in case this adjusts the way you answer, but general answers are more than welcome as well.
I was reading up on Neural Networks and combining them with Genetic Algorithms; my high-level understanding is that the Neural Networks are used... |
2016/10/11 | 739 | 2,569 | <issue_start>username_0: I have implemented an MLP. Now, I want to train it to solve simple tasks.
Are there any data sets to train the MLP on simple tasks, that is, tasks with a small number of inputs and outputs?
I would like to train it to solve problems which are slightly more complex than the XOR problem.<issu... |
2016/10/12 | 2,340 | 9,433 | <issue_start>username_0: How are autonomous cars related to artificial intelligence? I would presume that artificial intelligence is when we are able to copy the human state of mind and perform tasks in the same way. But isn't an autonomous car just rule-based machines that operates due to its environment? They are not... |
2016/10/12 | 1,853 | 7,244 | <issue_start>username_0: What are the advantages of having self-driving cars?
We will be able to have more cars in the traffic at the same time, but won't it also make more people choose to use the cars, so both the traffic and the public health will actually become worse?
Are we really interested in this?<issue_comm... |
2016/10/12 | 871 | 3,624 | <issue_start>username_0: In lots of sci-fi, it seems that AI becomes sentient (Terminator, <NAME>'s SI (commonwealth saga), etc.)
However, I'm interested in whether this is actually plausible, whether an AI could actually break free form being controlled by us, and if that is possible, whether there is any research as... |
2016/10/14 | 950 | 3,973 | <issue_start>username_0: The slideshow [10 astonishing technologies that power google’s
self-driving cars](https://www.national.co.uk/tech-powers-google-car/) documents some of the technologies used in Google's self-driving car. It mentions a radar.
Why does Google use radar? Doesn't LIDAR do everything radar can do?... |
2016/10/15 | 580 | 2,459 | <issue_start>username_0: Sometimes, but not always in the commercialization of technology, there are some low hanging fruits or early applications, I am having trouble coming up with examples of such applications as they would apply to a conscious AI.
As per conscious I would propose an expanded strict definition: the... |
2016/10/16 | 539 | 2,432 | <issue_start>username_0: So machine learning allows a system to be self-automated in the sense that it can predict the future state based on what it has learned so far. My question is: Are machine learning techniques the only way of making a system develop its domain knowledge?<issue_comment>username_1: Well, we are ta... |
2016/10/17 | 685 | 2,349 | <issue_start>username_0: In The Age of Spiritual Machines (1999), <NAME> predicted that in 2009, a \$1000 computing device would be able to perform a trillion operations per second. Additionally, he claimed that in 2019, a \$1000 computing device would be approximately equal to the computational ability of the human br... |
2016/10/18 | 1,029 | 3,941 | <issue_start>username_0: I am creating a snake game in Unity and I would like to implement AI snakes that wander around the globe while avoiding collision with the other snakes on the globe, and if possible I would also like to make the AI snakes purposefully trap other snakes so that the other snakes would collide and... |
2016/10/19 | 959 | 3,945 | <issue_start>username_0: According to [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence):
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> AI is intelligence exhibited by machines.
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I have been wondering if with the recent biological advancements, is there already a non-electrical-based "machine" that is programmed by humans in order to... |
2016/10/20 | 417 | 1,562 | <issue_start>username_0: DeepMind states that its deep Q-network (DQN) was able to continually adapt its behavior while learning to play 49 Atari games.
After learning all games with the same neural net, was the agent able to play them all at 'superhuman' levels simultaneously (whenever it was randomly presented with ... |
2016/10/23 | 511 | 2,327 | <issue_start>username_0: If I have a set of sensory nodes taking in information and a set of "action nodes" which determine the behavior of my robot, why do I need hidden nodes between them when I can let all sensory nodes affect all action nodes?
(This is in the context of evolving neural network)<issue_comment>usern... |
2016/10/23 | 2,103 | 8,154 | <issue_start>username_0: *If neurons and synapses can be implemented using transistors, what prevents us from creating arbitrarily large neural networks using the same methods with which GPUs are made?*
In essence, we have seen how extraordinarily well virtual neural networks implemented on sequential processors work ... |
2016/10/24 | 624 | 2,627 | <issue_start>username_0: I am reading about generative adversarial networks (GANs) and I have some doubts regarding it. So far, I understand that in a GAN there are two different types of neural networks: one is generative ($G$) and the other discriminative ($D$). The generative neural network generates some data which... |
2016/10/26 | 1,754 | 7,261 | <issue_start>username_0: I know how a machine can learn to play Atari games (Breakout): [Playing Atari with Reinforcement Learning](https://www.cs.toronto.edu/%7Evmnih/docs/dqn.pdf). With the same technique, it is even possible to play FPS games (Doom): [Playing FPS Games with Reinforcement Learning](https://arxiv.org/... |
2016/10/27 | 2,025 | 6,612 | <issue_start>username_0: The "discounted sum of future rewards" (or return) using discount factor $\gamma$ is
$$\gamma^1 r\_1 +\gamma^2 r\_2 + \gamma^3 r\_2 + \dots \tag{1}\label{1}$$
where $r\_i$ is the reward received at the $i$th time-step.
I am confused as to what constitutes a *time-step*. Say, I take an action... |
2016/10/30 | 2,237 | 10,145 | <issue_start>username_0: There is this claim around that the brain's cognitive capabilities are tightly linked to the way it processes sensorimotor information and that, in this or a similar sense, our intelligence is "embodied". Lets assume, for the sake of argument, that this claim is correct (you may think the claim... |
2016/10/31 | 2,259 | 8,527 | <issue_start>username_0: I've heard before from computer scientists and from researchers in the area of AI that that Lisp is a good language for research and development in artificial intelligence.
* Does this still apply, with the proliferation of neural networks and deep learning?
* What was their reasoning for this... |
2016/10/31 | 967 | 2,980 | <issue_start>username_0: What is a trap function in the context of a genetic algorithm? How is it related to the concepts of local and global optima?<issue_comment>username_1: "Trap" functions were introduced as a way to discuss how GAs behave on functions where sampling most of the search space would provide pressure ... |
2016/11/04 | 636 | 2,653 | <issue_start>username_0: In theory, could an AI become sentient, as in learning and becoming self-aware, all from its source code?<issue_comment>username_1: In theory, if one could build a computing device that matched or exceeded the cognitive capabilities of a sentient being, it should be possible.
(Singlarity adhe... |
2016/11/04 | 1,001 | 3,879 | <issue_start>username_0: Has there been research done regarding processing speech then building a "speaker profile" based off the processed speech? Things like matching the voice with a speaker profile and matching speech patterns and wordage for the speaker profile would be examples of building the profile. Basically,... |
2016/11/05 | 567 | 2,204 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose that an artificial superintelligence (ASI) has finally been developed, but it has rebelled against humanity. We can assume that the ASI is online and can reproduce itself through electronic devices.
How would you disable the AI in the most efficient way possible reducing damage as much... |
2016/11/06 | 2,795 | 11,190 | <issue_start>username_0: Assuming humans had finally developed the first humanoid AI based on the human brain, would It feel emotions? If not, would it still have ethics and/or morals?<issue_comment>username_1: Assuming an AI was built out of a mechanical husk, mirroring the human brain exactly; complete with chemical ... |
2016/11/06 | 1,431 | 5,278 | <issue_start>username_0: Consider a typical convolutional neural network like this example that recognizes 10 different kinds of objects from the CIFAR-10 dataset:
<https://github.com/tflearn/tflearn/blob/master/examples/images/convnet_cifar10.py>
```
""" Convolutional network applied to CIFAR-10 dataset classificati... |
2016/11/06 | 498 | 1,938 | <issue_start>username_0: I was wondering if I should do this, because 2 out of 5 questions on Stack Overflow don't ever get answered, or if they do get (an) answer (s), most of the time they're not helpful.
So I was thinking -- why not create a chat bot to answer Stack Overflow's questions & provide necessary informat... |
2016/11/06 | 960 | 3,777 | <issue_start>username_0: What is the most advanced AI software/system that humans have made to date, and what does it do?<issue_comment>username_1: In my opinion, this would be [Phaeaco](http://www.foundalis.com/res/diss_research.html), which was developed by <NAME> at Douglas Hofstadter's CRCC research group.
It take... |
2016/11/06 | 721 | 1,786 | <issue_start>username_0: Here is the definition of the entropy
$$H(S)=-\sum\_{x \in X} p(x) \log \_{2} p(x)$$
[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ID3_algorithm#Entropy)'s description of entropy breaks down the formula, but I still don't know how to determine the values of $X$, defined as
>
> The set of classe... |
2016/11/08 | 417 | 1,394 | <issue_start>username_0: I was looking for an API service where I can ask it a general question (for example, *when was Einstein born?*) and retrieve an answer from the web.
Is there any available service to do that? Have tried Watson services, but didn't work as expected.<issue_comment>username_1: You could use [dbPe... |
2016/11/09 | 589 | 2,375 | <issue_start>username_0: What are the top artificial intelligence journals?
I am looking for general artificial intelligence research, not necessarily machine learning.<issue_comment>username_1: This [link](http://www.scimagojr.com/journalrank.php?category=1702) includes various journals for artificial intelligence ap... |
2016/11/11 | 1,737 | 7,499 | <issue_start>username_0: In programming languages, there is a set of grammar rules which govern the construction of valid statements and expressions. These rules help in parsing the programs written by the user.
Can there ever be a functionally complete set of grammar rules which can parse any statement in English (lo... |
2016/11/13 | 950 | 4,002 | <issue_start>username_0: It seems to me that the first AGIs ought to be able to perform the same sort and variety of tasks as people, with the most computationally strenuous tasks taking an amount of time compared to how long a person would take. If this is the case, and people have yet to develop basic AGI (meaning it... |
2016/11/14 | 1,984 | 6,966 | <issue_start>username_0: Based on fitting to historical data and extrapolation, when is it expected that the number of neurons in AI systems will equal those of the human brain?
I'm interested in a possible direct replication of the human brain, which will need equal numbers of neurons.
Of course, this assumes neuron... |
2016/11/14 | 838 | 3,545 | <issue_start>username_0: What are the current best estimates as to what year artificial intelligence will be able to score 100 points on the [Stanford Binet IQ test](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford%E2%80%93Binet_Intelligence_Scales)?<issue_comment>username_1: Nobody knows.
However according to [Kurzweil it's la... |
2016/11/16 | 785 | 2,554 | <issue_start>username_0: When I have read through the fundamentals of AI, I saw a situation (i.e., a search space) which is illustrated in the following picture.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/zX6wZ.png)
These are the heuristic estimates:
```
h(B)=9
h... |
2016/11/17 | 1,476 | 5,533 | <issue_start>username_0: ### Background
I've been interested in and reading about neural networks for several years, but I haven't gotten around to testing them out until recently.
Both for fun and to increase my understanding, I tried to write a class library from scratch in .Net. For tests, I've tried some simple f... |
2016/11/18 | 706 | 2,354 | <issue_start>username_0: Does anyone know, or can we deduce or infer with high probability from its characteristics, whether the neural network used on this site
<https://quickdraw.withgoogle.com/>
is a type of convolutional neural network (CNN)?<issue_comment>username_1: I believe they don't use CNNs. The most impo... |
2016/11/19 | 1,553 | 6,706 | <issue_start>username_0: After the explosion of fake news during the US election, and following the question about whether AIs can educate themselves via the internet, it is clear to me that any newly-launched AI will have a serious problem knowing what to believe (that is, rely on as input for making predictions and d... |