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Magic Tricks Created Using Artificial Intelligence For the First Time
An anonymous reader writes Researchers working on artificial intelligence at Queen Mary University of London have taught a computer to create magic tricks. The researchers gave a computer program the outline of how a magic jigsaw puzzle and a mind reading card trick work, as well the results of experiments into how humans understand magic tricks, and the system created completely new variants on those tricks which can be delivered by a magician.
A trick is something a whore does for money...
After the AI winter, the field has really gone downhill.
Since professors still need to publish, they created a distinction between 'strong AI' and 'weak AI.' For some people, this was fine and yielded useful algorithms (but not AI), but largely it's a way to get published without doing anything substantial. Like this study, for example.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
That's bullshit though. Complex pattern recognition, especially when scaled up to useful levels, is intelligence. There's more to humanity than intelligence, and every theory that alleges AI needs to be human to be intelligent just ignores how much "living thing" and "social animal" and "great ape" and "tool user" and "visual thinker" there is to our innate character that has little to do with intelligence.
Those characteristics have given us lots of useful attributes that aren't explicitly about our abstract problem solving. Some of which computers have "better" existing solutions to in the general sense.
If all we want is humans, we've got humans to spare. AI is about extracting specific useful human qualities relating to intelligence.