13 Nov
2022
13 Nov
'22
7:36 p.m.
On Nov 13, 2022, at 2:31 PM, Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
That's a good description.
AI, not so clear. In my view, AI is a catch-all
term for "software whose properties are unknown and probably unknowable".
Someone recently on Hacker News talked about the possibility of neural net
models to translate code for other architectures. The best response to this
idea described it as a "turbo SIGILL generator." The mental image of a CPU ramming into a silicon brick
wall, reversing and
doing it again, over and over, possibly infinitely (the halting problem) comes
irresistibly to mind.
I see all too many "inventions" that can be summarized as "use prior art
solution X to well known problem Y by executing X in an AI (or "machine
learning") system." Sigh.
paul