Friday, September 19, 2008

Week 5- Muddiest Point

If machine learning is similar to data compression, and data compression is used as a benchmark of "general intelligence," and they are both based on prediction.... Does that mean that humans are so limited and predictable in our conversation and thought patterns that we could be fooled in a Turing test by a really powerful compression system running Zipfian distribution patterns on millions of old, recorded conversations?

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