Posted: Aug 26, 2017 5:43 pm
romansh wrote:scott1328 wrote:romansh wrote:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaGo
Google's Go player
I want you to tell me what it is about an alphaGo that made you mention it. (Socratic reductio?) What are its capacities and capabilities? Why didn't you ask me if my dog has free will? (He does to a limited extent)
it seems to me to meet these criteria:regularity in the world,
an ability to create a model,
ability to evaluate consequences of enacting a component of that model,
ability to enact a choice.
I don't believe the alphaGo has the capacities you attribute to it. It has no model. It does not evaluate outcomes. It is,at best, a situatuation reaction machine; an expensive thermostat.
Better, that you should have asked me about my dog's free will.