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posted by takyon on Thursday July 30 2015, @01:01PM   Printer-friendly
from the it-depends-what-"it"-is dept.

In this wide ranging interview, Steven Wolfram [creator of Mathematica and Wolfram Alpha] talks about what he's been thinking about for the last 30+ years, and how some of the questions he's had for a long time are now being answered.

I looked for pull quotes, but narrowing down to just one or two quotes from a long interview seemed like it might send the SN discussion down a rabbit hole... if nothing else, this is a calm look at the same topics that have been all over the press recently from Hawking, Musk and others.

One interesting topic is about goals for AIs -- as well as intelligence (however you define it), we humans have goals. How will goals be defined for AIs? Can we come up with a good representation for goals that can be programmed?


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  • (Score: 2) by ikanreed on Thursday July 30 2015, @04:19PM

    by ikanreed (3164) Subscriber Badge on Thursday July 30 2015, @04:19PM (#215920) Journal

    Oh, let's head down this road, I guess.

    Define intelligence.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 30 2015, @04:48PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 30 2015, @04:48PM (#215932)

    No, let's not. But I concede, adaptation occurs without *conscious* goals.