/lit/ - Literature

>it's a "who was the better writer" thread

Hi /lit/. Need advice on how to put myself in a better environment to read. Can only get about an hour in on work days and 3 hours in on days off. I'm too distracted w screens or I'm jackin off or I'm contemplating the priority problem for hours on what to read next or I'm browsin this fuckin page. Need some help, thanks

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I have recently begun studying A.I. and am very fascinated by the field. I never was so naive as to be sure human-like or even better-than-human machines would be developed through the process of formalizing everything. However, in my heart, the burning desire to build such an intelligent agent still resides.

The article was a nice read. It seems to me more like Dreyfus had a strobg intuition (just like almost anybody during that time) that the process was faulty. However, his arguments are unsubstantiated and improper. Everything he argued could be reduced to "yeah, but do you REALLY think we can be represented through such simple symbols?" or "Do you think it's really THAT easy?"

And I'd like to ask you - what do you think about the current statistical and probabilistic approach to A.I?