my point was the excessive extrapolation from that program.
PCT is not derived from the demos; the demos are derived from PCT.
even then, such improvement is itself due to another feedback loop
So you see, wherever you look in the behaviour of living organisms, you find feedback control!
If that seems trivial to you, then it is probably because you are not an experimental psychologist, which is the area in most need of the insight that living organisms control their perception. You probably also do not work in AI, most of whose practitioners (of strong or weak AI) are using such things as reinforcement learning, planning, modelling, and so on. Robotics engineers—some of them—are about the only exception, and they have a better track record of making things that work.
BTW, I’m not touting PCT or anything else as the secret of real AI. Any better understanding of how real brains operate, whether it comes from PCT or anything else, will presumably facilitate making artificial ones, and I have used it as the basis of a fairly good (but only simulated) walking robot, but strong AI is not my mission.
PCT is not derived from the demos; the demos are derived from PCT.
So you see, wherever you look in the behaviour of living organisms, you find feedback control!
If that seems trivial to you, then it is probably because you are not an experimental psychologist, which is the area in most need of the insight that living organisms control their perception. You probably also do not work in AI, most of whose practitioners (of strong or weak AI) are using such things as reinforcement learning, planning, modelling, and so on. Robotics engineers—some of them—are about the only exception, and they have a better track record of making things that work.
BTW, I’m not touting PCT or anything else as the secret of real AI. Any better understanding of how real brains operate, whether it comes from PCT or anything else, will presumably facilitate making artificial ones, and I have used it as the basis of a fairly good (but only simulated) walking robot, but strong AI is not my mission.