[gurps] Failing autopilots and RVO

[Zan Lynx]

David Scheidt wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Zan Lynx <zlynx at acm.org> wrote:

>> I am thinking that a computer which rewrites its own programs based on
>> experience or predictions of opponents future actions is no longer just
>> running a program; at that point it is at least an LAI (in my opinion).  And
>> that is a whole new thing than a Skill 17 piloting program.
> 
> It's state of the art AI.  For 1975.  Pretty routine today, used in
> all sorts of stuff.

Obviously you aren't thinking what I am thinking.  I have personal 
experience with some AI code and I have read about a lot more, and I 
know what the public state of the art generally is in 2008.

Admittedly, the theories don't seem a whole lot better than 1975, there 
is just more computer power and storage available now.

So computers have been rewriting their own rules since 1975.  Sure.  But 
not the rules for writing those rules, or the rules for the rules for 
the rules, etc.

Humans can even decide not to play the game.
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Zan Lynx
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