Kamangir (Archer)

The modeling game.

Kamangir | October 17, 2004 | Category Iran

When Aristotle, Euclide, and other ancient greece philosophers started to think about systematizing the science, they had no idea about the “noise” concept, introduced thousands of years later. In fact, the human race have longly neglected the fact that the world is full of fuzzy bundled things that perform in tedious manner. Assume a worker. You hire him to clean your windows and he performs it perfectly. When you are passing the wage to him, you start to think “if I ever had a robot… a cheap worker…never getting tired…”. In this very point, you are making a strange mistake.
The first question, when somebody starts working on AI is “am I going to simulate the real world creatures” or “am I so self confident and I am going to give better solutions”. All what I am trying to say is that researchers are trying to do the second while keeping saying the first. In the nature, there is no creature which is able to cleanse your windows at the exact moment you say it to do. About the animals there is no doubt, but you might say, every uman being is able to do so. Then I will ask, could you imagine a toddler washing a window? The fact is that the worker is being educated by the human community for a very long interval (at least 10 years in undeveloped countires!). Do you need an AI system that should be educated for 10 years? It will wash a window in half an hour and it will get bored soon. Then you have to feed it oil and ask it to do the rest tommorow. After the work it will need another AI system to sit and talk with. You can do the rest of imagination yourself. The whole fact is that we are not intrested to follow the footsteps of the nature. We need systems that transfer us in speeds never available in the universe. We need to sit at peace and watch people butchering eachother. We are not intrested at the things as they are, we need massive changes. Now, the questions is, do you have any evidence that such thing are ever possible?
Lets turn back to the first paragraph. Once upon a time, there was this smart scientist called “L.A. Zadeh”. I will ralk about his idea of fuzzy systems, first developed when thinking about the beauty of the girls.

L.A. Zadeh