I would not want to be in the "bury what you don't want to be" camp. And I know that computer systems can do x-ray reading remarkably well - far exceeding human capacity; just due to enhanced pattern recognition capacity; but that's clearly a case of "augmentation". The GO package does seem to challenge "my" skeptic model (I hope not me…
I would not want to be in the "bury what you don't want to be" camp. And I know that computer systems can do x-ray reading remarkably well - far exceeding human capacity; just due to enhanced pattern recognition capacity; but that's clearly a case of "augmentation". The GO package does seem to challenge "my" skeptic model (I hope not merely my ego); at a minimum, I take it, the computer did not devise the game of GO and did not devise the purpose (i.e what counts as winning) or rules of the game; - but then, the claim is, the computer did independently devise wholly innovative and beyond-human-capacity methods to win. That impresses me (Big Blue results as I understand it were more in the way of number crunching). The IBM Cancer package is a true story; the NYC MDs may have been "better"; the hospitals that dropped the package may have done so for "we want to do it the way we've always done it" purposes.
I would not want to be in the "bury what you don't want to be" camp. And I know that computer systems can do x-ray reading remarkably well - far exceeding human capacity; just due to enhanced pattern recognition capacity; but that's clearly a case of "augmentation". The GO package does seem to challenge "my" skeptic model (I hope not merely my ego); at a minimum, I take it, the computer did not devise the game of GO and did not devise the purpose (i.e what counts as winning) or rules of the game; - but then, the claim is, the computer did independently devise wholly innovative and beyond-human-capacity methods to win. That impresses me (Big Blue results as I understand it were more in the way of number crunching). The IBM Cancer package is a true story; the NYC MDs may have been "better"; the hospitals that dropped the package may have done so for "we want to do it the way we've always done it" purposes.