After 5 years of my own cognition/AI research, in 2002 I started actually experimenting with various implementations of an early AGI engine (with a team of about 10 full-time staff, and incidentally the same year that Shane Legg, Ben Goertzel and I coined the term ‘AGI’).
Our original prototype was a virtual mouse learning to get around a virtual environment. After about a year or so we decided that a virtual dog would be a better model; soon after that, a virtual child going through Piagetian development stages. Finally we decided that we could make best progress by concentrating on adult-level understanding, learning, and conversation – i.e. a personal assistant. We’ve been pursuing that model ever since then and still believe it is the fasted path to AGI. By 2008 we launched commercially, by automating call center calls: intelligently. www.AmsrtAction.ai <http://www.AmsrtAction.ai> now about 100 staff. Because commercial efforts can easily fall into the ‘Narrow AI Trap’ I exited 6 years ago to form www.Aigo.ai <http://www.Aigo.ai> – and have been concentrating on just cranking up ‘IQ’ (again with a team of about 12 full-time staff). The key bottleneck is people resources to teach, train, and further improve our intelligence engine -- not theory, performance, or hardware. The reason I tell this story, is mainly to say that I don’t think an evolutionary approach – staring with low life – is the best way to go. https://medium.com/intuitionmachine/what-is-agi-99cdb671c88e From: [email protected] <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, June 30, 2019 1:01 PM To: AGI <[email protected]> Subject: [agi] Re: computer science vs cognitive science "AGI check" list make a good starting point for discussion on what AGI should be, in terms of my AGI theory compared to yours. Nice sold statement on your part. I am working on pre AGI. That is, how a mind and brain would evolve into A conscious AGI brain along with its own psychology development. Evolution would start at insect level. Then to lizard brain, that is a hundred insect brains, units working in parallel. Then on two rodent brain, hundred lizard brains. Then on to primate brain. All simulated on computer. <https://agi.topicbox.com/latest> Artificial General Intelligence List / AGI / see discussions <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi> + participants <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/members> + delivery options <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription> Permalink <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T545884fa809cd5fe-M2cad0941ef6242265137b51b> ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T545884fa809cd5fe-M01f29c7431004bf3b6ad8ed7 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
