alt Hacker NewsCan someone in the know give a little summary of what we’re looking at here? What’s the purpose? How effective is the code/system at accomplishing its purpose? Etc…
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thesz • today at 10:24 AM
Automated Mathematician was what lead to Eurisko: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurisko
Eurisko demonstrated superhuman abilities to play strategy games in early 1980-th, and even used strategies from VLSI place-and-route task in planning fleet placement in games. This is knowledge transfer between tasks.
lproven • today at 1:50 PM
Pioneering and seminal early Lisp AI work, ~50 years before LLMs. From the mind behind the Cyc project.
Automated Mathematician is a historically significant step in the evolution of classic AI based on evaluating symbols and rules. This branch of AI seems to have hit a dead end although one can never be certain of such things.
Obviously stuff like LLMs produces much more impressive results as of now, that's a given. OTOH who knows - neural networks have also had a long-ish period when OCR seemed to be the pinnacle of what they can deliver before they exploded via Deep Learning/Transformers/LLMs and what not.