Matt, My AGI-related interest here springs from my observation that nearly everything people expect from an AGI: 1. Is well within human problem solving ability. 2. Is absolutely impossible. 3. Is SO costly that it isn't worth doing. 4. Would attract others to destroy the AGI. 5. Would be overcome by other differently-motivated AGIs. 6. Requires information not available to a non-human. 7. Something that an AGI can accomplish that humans cannot accomplish. So far, I have seen NOTHING that falls into this category.
Basic System Analysis Step #1: Detetmine what is expected of the system. Perhaps you can help here? I was serious when I made my reverse Turing test proposal to start a competition for people to try emulating an AGI, as I expected the falacy or lack thereof to fall out of such a competition. Until that happens, I just can't take AGIs serioudly. Again, is anyone here interested in participating in such a competition? Steve On 11:49AM, Wed, Aug 1, 2018 Matt Mahoney via AGI <[email protected]> wrote: > Does anyone here still want to discuss AGI? Or would we rather talk > about onions and politics? > > I realize AGI is a really hard problem. The only ones making any real > progress are companies with 12 figure market caps, and it's > incremental at best. So don't feel bad if 20 years of your work can be > boiled down to a few data points. That's how research works. You are > still contributing a tiny bit to the global effort to automate human > labor. Any unsuccessful attempt to do this all by yourself is still a > data point that helps others by giving them one less thing to try. > > Everyone here should feel proud of their work whatever the outcome. > > -- > -- Matt Mahoney, [email protected] ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T56889bf27bc7ed87-Mf0af3b704e83afd8a65b9cd6 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
