A slang term (derived from
NP-Complete) for a group of problems in computer science that seem to require a fundamental breakthrough in
Artificial Intelligence research to solve, are easy for humans to do (in fact, some are described directly in terms of imitating humans), and all, at their core, are about representing complex relationships between a large number of fuzzily-described concepts. Some systems can solve very simple restricted versions of these problems, but none can solve them in their full generality.
Such problems include:
- [Machine Vision]?
- Natural Language understanding
- Passing the Turing Test
The term also carries the beliefs of many computer science researchers outside the AI community that either human-like AI is impossible using conventional computers, or if it is, a breakthrough in understanding required will not come for a long time, will be fundamentally different to present approaches, and will come from outside the current AI community.
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