[HN Gopher] Programming Cognitive Robots
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Programming Cognitive Robots
 
Author : i_don_t_know
Score  : 47 points
Date   : 2022-08-31 18:13 UTC (4 hours ago)
 
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| civilian wrote:
| I love the idea of cognitive AI. I've dabbled with OpenCog
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCog , and in my youth I read
| "Artificial General Intelligence (2005)" by Ben Goertzel and I
| was really convinced.
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| But it seems like... cognitive AI hasn't paid off? Big & deep
| Neural Nets are the type of ML/AI that are achieving milestones
| in learning, gameplay and tasks.
| 
| If someone has a strong case to make for cognitive programming,
| I'd love to hear it. But right now it seems like it's a
| heuristics-based system that's destined to lose to NNs.
| 
| (And before the nitpickers arrive, I totally grant that using
| heuristics for toy robots makes sense, and is a good way to
| expose people to programming.)
 
  | mtlmtlmtlmtl wrote:
  | FWIW, classical algorithms(with a small neural net for eval) is
  | still the strongest approach for chess, consistently beating
  | out more heavily NN based approaches in TCEC. And I'm not an
  | expert, but I'm pretty sure the strongest AIs for various
  | complex games like Starcraft 2 have a strong cognitive
  | component while using neural nets for particular subtasks.
 
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