Python from Wise Guy's Viewpoint
Pascal Bourguignon
spam at thalassa.informatimago.com
Tue Oct 21 19:53:22 EDT 2003
"Andrew Dalke" <adalke at mindspring.com> writes:
> [...]
> Nor have you given any sort of guideline on how to implement
> this sort of AI in the first place. Without it, you've just restated
> the dream of many people over the last few centuries. It's a
> dream I would like to see happen, which is why I agreed with you.
> [...]
> Truely I believe that programming languages as we know
> them are not the (direct) solution, hence my pointers to
> evolvable hardware and similar techniques.
You're right, I did not answer. I think that what is missing in
classic software, and that ought to be present in AI software, is some
introspective control: having a process checking that the other
processes are live and progressing, and able to act to correct any
infinite loop, break down or dead-lock. Some hardware may help in
controling this controling software, like on the latest Macintosh:
they automatically restart when the system is hung. And purely at the
hardware level, for a real life system, you can't rely on only one
processor.
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