[gurps] Failing autopilots and RVO

[Onno Meyer]

Douglas replied to me:
> > Part of intelligence are creativity and intuition. Those
> > are hard to define and hard to test, and not every human
> > displays them in equal measure, but when ONE AI brings a
> > paradigm shift in science (on the level of Einstein or
> > Darwin) or wins a Literature Nobel Prize, we are there.
> 
> By that measure most of humanity including you (I would guess), don't
> qualify as intelligent. Also creativity is a lot like the monti carlo
> random function that fits the model. Intuition is just thinking that
> you are not consciously aware of, nothing special.

Monte Carlo is just one way to enumerate possible choices. If
we assume that the monte carlo machine guesses right with the 
first try, it is a nondeterministic turing machine. Those can 
are equivalent to a deterministic turing machine as far as 
computability goes, and there are problems which TMs cannot 
solve (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem). 

I don't know if there is a human who CAN "solve the halting 
problem" with pen and paper, but there are fundamental reasons 
why computers as we know them can't. 
 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem