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Narrow_Exam_6555 t1_j6o84cu wrote

Reply to comment by LizardWizard444 in AI Has Successfully Imitated Human Evolution—and Might Do It Even Better by AdGroundbreaking1870

If I have learned anything during my CS degree it's that random bullshit can produce desired outcomes, if you are astronomically lucky (see start of life on Earth). However, in some situations making intelligent and careful use of random decisions can help guide our search processes to find solutions to difficult and complex problems in a way that is provably, mathematically efficient.

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LizardWizard444 t1_j6obgy6 wrote

I can't argue with that but still people who touted evolutioni's genius also fail to understand it's blindness and idiocy.

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Narrow_Exam_6555 t1_j6oczps wrote

It's like a blind man in an old timey cartoon. Comically wandering obliviously through his environment, evading dangers everywhere he goes in close call after close call. By sheer luck he accidentally fumbles about and saves a baby and puts a gang of criminals in jail.

The whole city cheers for him and gives him all kinds of awards and he's just like:

"Eh-excuse me good sir, I am looking for Johnson's pharmacy, on the corner of 9th street and 6th avenue. Could you offer some guidance please?"

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LizardWizard444 t1_j6oh4o2 wrote

Yeah, ultimately evolution's true achievement is the fact it managed to optimize in the first place. The fact that random chunk of chemicals got together and make more of itself and then make more of other stuff and so on and so forth till the world got covered in thos carbon nanostructreal iterative mesh making directed optimized processes is the cool part. All taking advantage of the fact if there's more of something that can make itself than that something will increase in number.

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Narrow_Exam_6555 t1_j6oink1 wrote

The probability of life emerging in the universe is quite low, but it's definitely higher than 0.

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LizardWizard444 t1_j6ole3w wrote

I know that, rudementry life is largely just a matter of getting the right chemicals in place. But the truely interesting part is that it continues and iterates. Statistical laws and higher mathmatical patterns pushing innert chemicals into rudimentary life is amazing, the complexity that emerged is so incredibly fascinating and the fact an animal born of this motion with a sophisticated enough mind to refine the underlying math purely and susinctly is miraculous.

The real crazy stuff is all around is happening even as i type this and most people go they're whole lives never really thinking about even three fourths the phenomenon they encounter on a daily basis. The true marvel of AI is that it must calculate from the simplest math into the more complicated. A human brain may be good enough to identify "tiger" and "danger" afew precious seconds to keep us alive but a machine has ti run the tiger through math and comes to a more complete picture in milliseconds w4the processing we pack nowadays.

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