On Fri, 23 Jul 1999 01:15:01 GMT, Bloxy's at hotmail.com (Bloxy's) wrote:
>In article <37ac6f14.44643483 at news.demon.co.uk>, malcolm at pigsty.demon.co.uk (Malcolm McMahon) wrote:
>>On Thu, 22 Jul 1999 13:30:24 -0400, "Ken Collins" <KPaulC at email.msn.com>
>>wrote:
>>>>it's not 'AI' if it cannot direct its own learning in creative ways... as
>>>soon as the machines are imbued with such, they're on their own.
>>>Learning, like all inteligent activity, is goal directed. And we set the
>>goals.
>>Pure illusion.
>
Expand a little. You don't think learning is goal directect. So what
actually motivates it?
Why do we learn? To better serve our fundamental goals, I'd say. So an
AI learns the better to serve the purpose for which it was directed just
as we learn the better to pursue the goals that society and our genes
have set for us.
There are no goals inherent in pure inteligence. They have to be
supplied from outside.
