Comment on Sergey Brin says AGI is within reach if Googlers work 60-hour weeks
jenesaisquoi@feddit.org 5 weeks agoYour argument can be reduced to saying that if the algorithm is comprised of many steps, it is AI, and if not, it isn’t.
A chess engine decides nothing. It understands nothing. It’s just an algorithm.
Opinionhaver@feddit.uk 5 weeks ago
That’s not my argument at all. I never said an algorithm is AI just because it has many steps. The key difference isn’t complexity - it’s the nature of what the algorithm does. A Tic-Tac-Toe AI can be extremely simple yet still counts as AI where as something like a game physics engine is extremely complex yet it doesn’t simulate intelligence, just physics. Bubble sort follows a fixed sequence with no decision-making. A chess engine, on the other hand, evaluates different moves, predicts outcomes, and optimizes decisions based on a strategy. That’s not just ‘many steps’ - it’s a process of selecting the best action based on the current situation. If you think my argument is about complexity rather than decision-making, you’ve misunderstood my point.
jenesaisquoi@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
If the decision making in the game is based on a deterministic formula, then it is no different than the decision of selecing which two items in the container to compare next.