A New Force In The Universe! AI has arrived.

seem you came back too :-p

Getting "intoxicated" by these subjects - is better than getting "drunk" on alcohol.
That's my take on it.  For me. 
Also - this website is for people who have enough spare time.  To be here.
Again - that's my take on it - for me.
Chess and chess websites are just great - for filling up time ...    

I don't think this is really to the point, alpha 0 algorithm doesn't really need to evaluate millions of posiotions because is strenght lies, in cutting the branches of the tree, so it seemengly works like human mind where you make tryes, you gather your data you make your hypothesys and you reach your conclusion, and repeat... 

I saw some of the victories alfa 0 scored against stockfish, it really seemed that alpha 0 was playing against a patzer, stockfish was playing up in material but with his pieces undeveloped and clogged up, to a human sight it looked like stockfish couldn't assess what was going on... IDK if it's really sensible speking about an engine understanding what's going on but it's clear to me that the difference (being stockfish nerfed or not) is all about the algorithm and not the number of moves per second...

The games seem surprisingly entertaining!

I agree with you about the advantage AlphaZero has.

You just said the other 90% is _used_.

It's an even worse myth than the "tongue map".

I agree its not a myth.
But "use" and "used"  are meant to refer to "useful" probably.
In other words - is the other 90% being used usefully?
And regarding the 10% "conscious" operations - is that all being used "usefully"?
Unfortunately (or fortunately) - the answer to the question "what is useful and what is not?"
would depend on who is asked. 

The unconscious brain is stupendously important. While many organisms rely entirely on it, it is important enough to humans to invest a large energy budget in it.

For example, you use it a lot when you stand up and walk. Almost any often repeated activity becomes largely subconscious (typing is another example).

@Elroch  You're correct on those points.
A point that might be missed - is that consciousness itself -
is simply a subset and consequence of the unconscious.  Consciousness is a "sensation".
Another way to say this:  Its a mistake (of unreality) to put conscious and subconscious -
in "separate boxes".  For several reasons.  I could get into those -
but I might need an invitation from anybody here - to do that ...  
Anyway - the separate terms are used to serve semantics and communication -
which are to serve us.  People get that one wrong too ...  but worse things happen.

It learned Chess in 4 hours oh wow!! driveless cars, pilotless planes soon the great technological divide, between the Haves and Have nots ..then thinking AI

Birth of Skynet ..  and they argue about Semantics 

Prof Stephen Hawking told the BBC:"The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race."

Kyle Reese: Defense network computers. New... powerful... hooked into everything, trusted to run it all. They say it got smart, a new order of intelligence. Then it saw all people as a threat, not just the ones on the other side. Decided our fate in a microsecond: extermination.

AI isn't taking over the world anytime soon. It will try to steal your credit card info on Russian chat sites, though. 

very true.. but all little steps, little changes, the march of progress

and before you know it another chip at our loss of humanity, an age of Facebook, Amazon, faceless with out accountability, faster and quicker

for all what we have gained, what do we lose? our soul our humanity

 Albert Einstein:

"I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots."

This is a rather slippery slope. It seems truly unwise to create anything that is capable of getting to a point where it could destroy you, and that's exactly where this is headed. Google is playing God and doing a horrid job of it. What will it take for the techies to realize new isn't always good, that forward progress is forward progress whether you're scaling a mountain or jumping off a cliff, and you can't just plow forward without the risk of learning which one you were doing while you look up at the sky, mangled, broken, and semi-conscious? Creating robots as citizens, trusting them to think for us, its just nuts. 

And that's not counting the fact that if they actually create a robot that solves chess, the game I love will be relegated to the same level as tic tic toe, with no point in playing at all because ill know who wins simply by the color of their pieces. 

Good luck finding a source for that Einstein "quote".

I saw a documentary the other day regarding driverless cars.
They were found to be hopeless.
Can you imagine the lawsuit if somebody was killed by that kind of AI?
Regarding machines "taking over" - and time travel stories about same -
there's much more of a threat by the People using such machines - Taking Over -
and that already goes on ...  

Please don't procreate, ever.

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Thanks, Optimissed: very interesting.

Regarding time needed, I am sure there will be specific standard advice from the OU. Took me a while to get what you meant about the maths - you mean he has done a lot of this already. I am sure the OU will explain to him what he can skip, and work out a schedule for what is left.

Hardware in AI is surely important in several ways. One is specialised computing hardware such as google's TPUs, but also GPUs, which serve a similar purpose for most deep learning specialists (because they can be faster than CPUs for the big matrix calculations.  Working with parallel hardware of other types is also useful. He may be interested in robotics, which has a lot more varied hardware requirements than most AI work: interfaces in both directions are important. I would see the role of a hardware specialist as complementary to those working on the software and algorithms.

As an amusing coincidence, long, long ago, after I had deserted academia for microcomputers I got interested enough in electronics to do a few modules in it  where I could, and found use for that experience later when building automated experiments in applied physics research. An MSc would have been a choice with more potential, but I wasn't so committed to that area. Mostly, I have stuck to working with software, which is more my metier.