[hal9000xp]

Back at the time when Deep Blue won chess match against Kasparov everyone in the media said about superior intelligence of Deep Blue.

While I at that time clearly realized that IBM just built brute-force "bulldozer" which can look for 200 million positions per second. Even with that power it had only a slight advantage over Kasparov who can look at only a handful of positions per second.

Now, we have another generation of "intelligent" machines based on deep learning but I see this as just upgraded version of brute-force "bulldozers". Now, it takes hundreds of millions of samples to infer the rules which human can infer from only a thousand or even less samples.

So I would call truly intelligent machine which can learn to play chess or go looking/playing only to a few thousands examples and calculating only a few moves ahead and not more than a few moves per second. Obviously that machine would beat human intelligence completely.

Although, such machine still may not have self-consciousness with qualia but this yet another big challenge.

[a1exyz]

Are you sure that human thought isn't basically brute-force bulldozing? Just because we don't feel like it is doesn't mean it is.

The time it takes us to learn something, the number of times we have to see/experience it could be akin to bulldozing couldn't it?

There are a lotttt of neurons in our brains that are constantly going off, perhaps comparable to the amount of transistors in a deep learning gpu if you account for the training time difference

[xapata]

Human chess players learn from each other. What might look at first like learning from a small sample is really a great deal of knowledge transferred via a small sample. Millions of people have played billions of chess games combined. We're learning by parallel Monte Carlo simulation.

[jasonmaydie]

The next level of AI learning is when AI learns something in one context and applies it to a different context

[maxxxxx]

I think the brute force approach will win in the long run. I don't think the approach machines take should be compared to the approach humans take.