From: Robin Lee Powell (rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org)
Date: Wed May 19 2004 - 12:22:08 MDT
On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 05:57:21PM +0100, Michael Wilson wrote:
> 'That Don't Impress Me Much' - SL4 version
>
> I've been meaning to post this for a while; for some reason every time
> Eliezer criticises someone else's AI theory I imagine him singing this
> at an SIAI karokee night. Yes, it's based on an awful piece of
> hypercommercial pop, but it seemed to fit. With apologies to Shania
> Twain.
Edited for rhyme. Your meter is excellent, that's very rare.
Congratulations.
I admit I used an online rhyming dictionary.
> I've known a few researchers who thought they had a clue,
I've known a few researchers who thought that they were smart,
> But you've got toy problems down to an art,
> You think you're AI's Eienstien; you drive me up the wall,
> You're a regular wishful thinker, another Newell.
>
> Oh-oo-oh, you think you know the secret,
> Oh-oo-oh, you think you can code it.
Oh-oo-oh, you think you'll have the code
(for meter and stress)
> Okay, so you've got an agent system,
> That don't impress me much,
> So you've got layering but where's the cognitive work?
So you've got layering but where's the cognitive touch?
> Don't get me wrong, yeah I'm sure you'll have apps,
Don't get me wrong, sure you're apps will come through,
> But that won't save the world from the advance of grey goo,
> That don't impress me much.
>
> I never knew a coder who who didn't bother to design,
> And just put loads of neurons... into nets,
> And all that directed evolution supposed to sort it out,
> 'Cause Heaven forbid that AI should be transparent.
And all that managed evolution oughta be so fine
'Cause Heaven forbid you should lose that bet
> Oh-oo-oh, you think you know the secret,
> Oh-oo-oh, you think you can code it.
>
> Okay, so you've got a neural net,
> That don't impress me much,
> So you've made it spiking but can you train it?
Spking?
So you've got some nets but where's the cognitive touch?
> Don't get me wrong, yeah I'm sure you'll have apps,
> But that won't save the world from the advance of grey goo,
> That don't impress me much .
>
> You're one of those coders who actually likes PROLOG,
> You make me write a formal spec before I touch your IDE,
I don't see how that's an insult. :-)
You make me try to read code that's lookin' like symbol fog
> I can't believe you think AIXI is a good model,
I can't believe you dream hex at night
> C'mon baby tell me; you must be unFriendly, right!
>
> Oh-oo-oh, you think you know the secret,
> Oh-oo-oh, you think you can code it.
>
> Okay, so you know Solomonoff,
> That don't impress me much,
> So you got the maths but is it tractable?
So you got the maths but where's the cognitive touch?
> Don't get me wrong, yeah I'm sure you'll have apps,
> But that won't save the world from the advance of grey goo,
> That don't impress me much .
>
> You think you're smart but have you got Bayes?
> Don't get me wrong, yeah I think you're alright,
> But that won't save the world from all the Un... Friendly... AIs.
> That don't impress me much.
>
> Okay, so what do you think you're Turing or something...
> Whatever,
> That don't impress me...
-Robin
-- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** I'm a *male* Robin. "Many philosophical problems are caused by such things as the simple inability to shut up." -- David Stove, liberally paraphrased. http://www.lojban.org/ *** loi pimlu na srana .i ti rokci morsi
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