[djit]

I wonder if trying to emulate"human intelligence" is the way to go. What if we could develop a synthetic form of intelligence distinct from our ability to analyse and solve problems?

If I had to build an AI, I would like to "train it" by pitching it against other AIs. Imagine an open AI network where bots will learn by challenging each others. Does such a thing exist?

[pron]

> What if we could develop a synthetic form of intelligence distinct from our ability to analyse and solve problems?

Until we know what intelligence is, I'm not sure we could classify something as being distinct from human intelligence. If AI is any computational model that can learn (i.e., adapt its parameters as a response to inputs to solve various problems), then evolution would qualify as well (well, maybe it is).

But currently, "AI" is a marketing or science-fiction term, not anything we define even remotely rigorously. If we use the Turing test as a definition to AI (i.e., intelligence is the quality of an agent that is indistinguishable from a person through communication), we are not much closer today than we were forty years ago.

Science fiction can inspire science, but using sci-fi terms as if they were scientific terms is confusing, and I think we should similarly leave marketing terms to marketers (over the past decades, marketers have assigned the name AI to very different algorithms solving very different problems).

[ilaksh]

> where bots will learn by challenging

Many such things exist and have existed for years, just google it.

Also google AGI (artificial general intelligence) or see the videos I linked to on youtube in this thread.

Really the questions you are asking are sort of interesting but it indicates that you are completely unfamiliar with the decades of AI and AGI research that have been done.

[djit]

Never claimed any expertise on AI research. Thanks for the suggestion nonetheless.