Many Methods Make Light Work

4/17/2022

Introduction

Here are some definitions of intelligence:

So I think in order for artificial intelligence software to become more intelligent, it must go to school. School provides an excellent way to be tested on a wide variety of subjects and measure progress in the form of grades. I decided to test SingularAgent's abilities using the Khan Academy website:

"Khan Academy is a not-for-profit educational organization started by Salman Khan in 2008. Our mission is to provide a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere. Our online materials cover subjects ranging from math and finance to history and art. With thousands of bite-sized videos, step-by-step problems, and instant progress information, Khan Academy provides a rich and engaging learning experience. You can earn points and badges along the way, and coach others as well."

Today I am announcing that SingularAgent has achieved a perfect score on the first 3 practice lessons in the Counting unit for the Early Math course on Khan Academy.

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Details

Over the past couple of years, I have built up a decent collection of methods in SingularAgent. A method is a code block that contains a series of statements. A program causes the statements to be executed by calling the method and specifying any required method arguments. Here is a brief overview of what methods (aka abilities) SingularAgent has so far:

In order for SingularAgent to learn how to do simple math, I had to create approximately 40 new methods.  The good news is that over 75% of the methods that I used for the practice lessons on Khan Academy were ones that I had already previously created. I essentially coded (aka taught) SingularAgent the minimum skills that it needed to learn in order to answer these simple math questions. There is no unexplainable magic happening behind the curtain. This is just the result of lots of small reusable methods connected together passing parameters to each other. By breaking down everything into simple steps, complex processes become less complicated and anything becomes possible.

Demos

Embedded below are three YouTube videos that demonstrate SingularAgent achieving a perfect score on the following practice lessons:

As you can see by watching, I wasn't concerned with speed at this point. I focused more on getting the right answer. Most of the delay before selecting the answer was due to converting the pixels to text and counting the cute little animals. Sometimes these animals had pixels that were overlapping each other so SingularAgent had to determine where one animal ends and another animal begins.

Enjoy watching!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2ZQf8kE-Cc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEyAm3-PXqY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JyV1iUEj94