wat.

If you think this challenge has anything to do with AI in practice, you're very wrong. Quantum computing may facilitate the backbone of concepts like this, but the implementation and algorithms are all the same, unrelated to quantum computing.

Currently in the AI world, all attention is going to creating an AI that teaches itself new behavior. Instead of relying 100% of what it has been taught through code and configuration, new AI implementations analyze the world, analyze their own behavior and analyze the responses their actions receive, and that way they learn to do/say more realistic or more intelligent things in the future.

This Q&A has some nice insights on the topic: https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-code-a-self-learning-AI

Driverless cars is a good example of the start of a true ai imo

This post was edited by kalelvszod on Aug 3 2016 09:17am

Are driverless cars more or less just a set of algorithms and decision making? I don't think driverless cars are gradually going to become better "drivers" over time.

It'll probably be mostly the former, with some experimentation with the latter. Even if it's just the former though, this is still a perfect example of AI.

im sure if you were to compare our brains are no different. Nothing will trump human intuition imo but at the same time there are also alot of morons out there driving around. so having AI will give more consistency when it comes to driving which should lead to less accidents. I highly doubt the computer will drink and drive. In the end will be a positive thing. people dont realize this but most plans are self flying hehe.

computers can make up for intuition with a ridiculously fast ability to learn/evolve
they can make thousands of iterations and keep the effective ones, it took us tens of thousands of years of evolution to achieve the same results

no it didn't. i recall my parents telling me i learned to walk normally in a few months.

comparing it to the entirety of human evolution is absurd. that computer didn't have to develop its own hardware lols.

I think it took a little longer to go from a single celled organisms to bipedal homosapians but nvm

and we know what the end result needs to be so no need for a computer to create it from zero

i will say it again........

You cannot compare the entirety of human evolution to that program.

that program is closer to someones child than a new species starting from scratch.

it's an example of what a computer can do in a limited time given the desired result