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Re: [RT] What computers can't do (yet!)



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On Tuesday, February 26, 2002, 10:29:37 AM, topos8 wrote:

t> Computer software is not yet very "creative" in the sense that we
t> humans understand this term.

t> What the computer can't do is come up with a model that the
t> developer hasn't imagined yet. In other words it doesn't come up
t> with "new  ideas" in the sense we typically use this phrase.

There are already examples of 'intelligent' computers that do "new"
human-competive things in which:

(A) The result was patented as an invention in the past, is an
improvement over a patented invention, or would qualify today as a
patentable new invention.

(B) The result is equal to or better than a result that was accepted
as a new scientific result at the time when it was published in a
peer-reviewed scientific journal.

(C) The result is equal to or better than a result that was placed
into a database or archive of results maintained by an internationally
recognized panel of scientific experts.

(D) The result is publishable in its own right as a *new* scientific
result - independent of the fact that the result was mechanically
created.

(E) The result is equal to or better than the most recent
human-created solution to a long-standing problem for which there has
been a succession of increasingly better human-created solutions.

(F) The result is equal to or better than a result that was considered
an achievement in its field at the time it was first discovered.

(G) The result solves a problem of indisputable difficulty in its
field.

(H) The result holds its own or wins a regulated competition involving
human contestants (in the form of either live human players or
human-written computer programs).

In many of these cases, the computer was given only 'first
principles', essentially what a human would get in school, and it
worked out the result from those.

Not bad for a 'dumb' computer. :-)

ztrader



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