“Norvig is taking the engineering approach - artificial intelligence needs only to pass the Turing test.”
Passing the Turing test and the simulation of intelligence are supposed to be the same thing. Turing came up with the test to sidestep the definition of intelligence.
I’m not sure what you mean by “but in order to have real intelligence you need an analytical engine (or brain, if you will) that can prioritize data without fiddling with bits. In the Norvig solution, someone will always have to be fiddling with the bits”.
Do you mean bits as in pieces or as in ones and zeros ? If the former, haven’t Chomsky’s models required the addition of new parameters as exceptions to his rules are found ? If you mean the latter, how is a computer to prioritize data if it can’t look at bits ?
There seems to be the misconception that Norvig does not use simple models. He does, just ones that use statistics for training and to learn. His approach strikes me as elegant, simple and more robust to changes in language over time than Chomsky’s.
Passing the Turing test and the simulation of intelligence are supposed to be the same thing. Turing came up with the test to sidestep the definition of intelligence.
I’m not sure what you mean by “but in order to have real intelligence you need an analytical engine (or brain, if you will) that can prioritize data without fiddling with bits. In the Norvig solution, someone will always have to be fiddling with the bits”. Do you mean bits as in pieces or as in ones and zeros ? If the former, haven’t Chomsky’s models required the addition of new parameters as exceptions to his rules are found ? If you mean the latter, how is a computer to prioritize data if it can’t look at bits ?
There seems to be the misconception that Norvig does not use simple models. He does, just ones that use statistics for training and to learn. His approach strikes me as elegant, simple and more robust to changes in language over time than Chomsky’s.