Gigaom AI Minute – March 5

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Machine learning works, of course, by taking a dataset and studying it. Looking for patterns in it. Patterns which may be used to predict future occurrences. It certainly begs the question of whether or not humans have abilities that could not be duplicated using that methodology.

Is our ability to walk just inferred from all of our data from all of our attempts in the past? Is human creativity just us extrapolating from a prior dataset of experience? If the answer is yes, then it suggests that an artificial general intelligence is something we're on the verge of creating as we make advances in AI. If the answer is no, that humans have abilities that cannot be duplicated by studying prior data, then that either means that an artificial general intelligence is much further off, which will require additional techniques, or may not be possible at all.