A.I.

Why is it that we don't see any groundbreaking development on the field of A.I., but people continue saying we should be scared and whatnot? And it's not the usual crackpots, it's actually people who supposedly know better. I'm confused.

http://www.bbc.com/news/31047780
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/dec/02/stephen-hawking-intel-communication-system-astrophysicist-software-predictive-text-type
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/27/elon-musk-artificial-intelligence-ai-biggest-existential-threat

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Joshua_Blue
Ah how I love unsourced wiki pages that describe things that probably don't exist.

Interesting paper on using neural networks to examine any language. http://arxiv.org/abs/1502.01710 Will it achieve ANDRU levels of performance though?

>>101
But can it understand LISP?

>>102
Maybe.

One final possibility from our model is learning from

symbolic systems such as mathematical equations, logic

expressions or programming languages. Zaremba and

Sutskever(Zaremba & Sutskever, 2014) have shown that it

is possible to approximate program executing using a recur-

rent neural network.
If I recall correctly, that paper described interpreting FIOC. I imagine that Lisp would be easier.