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Sergey Sokolov2015-12-30 21:49:50
Artificial intelligence
Sergey Sokolov, 2015-12-30 21:49:50

What areas of human knowledge/skills/abilities are most likely to be formalized?

Programming, generalizing and simplifying popular science, can be described as the transfer of a human (programmer) ability to solve a certain problem - a machine. After that, the programmer can step back, but his skill, formalized in the code, will continue to function without him, with the ability to multiply indefinitely (copies of the program).
It is interesting to imagine how nontechnical skills could be perpetuated in the same way. For example, creative. Let, some very narrow, isolated moments. Let, only the manner of the artist to put strokes - without composition, "visions" - only technique. Or the way a particular guitarist builds a solo (rather Angus Young than Nuno Bettancourt).
It seems to me that at least three are needed: the owner of the skill, the programmer/formalizer, and the expert in the field from which the skill is taken. For example, in order to convey the skill of handwriting, in addition to the writing person, someone is needed who will say that such and such ligaments and ligatures are characteristic in this language, and it is necessary and sufficient for the “experimental” to write such and such exercises for samples.
What is all this for? Well, let's say it would be interesting to try to cross the playing style of Kirk Hammett and Brian May, or try to model what else Dali would draw if he were alive.
Question: how to evaluate the complexity / feasibility of such a “removal” of a skill for a particular case, and what areas of application come to your mind?

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EndUser, 2015-12-31
@EndUser

Medicine, diagnostics.
There are a lot of experts - both holders of competence and analysts, the final opinion is largely monotonous, although experts still do not have an agreement on some issues. However, 80% of all agree with each other. Except for the young idiots who, like, advised me to be placed upside down to cough up the phlegm of the common flu.
Complexity? Well, IBM Watson is starting to take over.
As for curiosity, it is cheaper for you to realize it by paying a single payment to a professional guitarist-artist for performing the plot you ordered in someone else's manner. Practical (return on investment) in your curiosity, I do not find.

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DancingOnWater, 2015-12-31
@DancingOnWater

Formalization and algorithmization are different concepts. Everything can be formalized, but algorithmization is not a fact.
For example, what Dali could draw you will not be able to, because. in addition to the skills themselves, there is a combination of their application and development along the way. As a result, you will end up with an unreasonable set of options that, in principle, cannot be driven into algorithms.
But to cross the game and see how it sounds on a well-known work is quite possible.
The complexity of formalization cannot be estimated or even estimated. Because pitfalls may arise in the process, which at the current level of abstraction simply cannot be bypassed.

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Vitaly Pukhov, 2015-01-12
@Neuroware

You can formalize the skill of "drinking beer" :) And if, in fact, you can formalize only those tasks that can be fully comprehended and described based on a limited, minimal set of terms, if you can describe the basic set and the logic of their relationship, then the formalization was successful and you can build an algorithm. Where exactly this is used can be found by Google in the text "what are expert systems for"

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