While it has been somewhat entertaining to watch Immortal Discoveries argue with himself, albeit somewhat incoherently, the bottom line remains. We need artificial superintelligence. The definiition is this is an artificial intelligence capable of all modes of human thought and able to do it better as well as other capabilities not found in the human baseline. A system that is confined to one modality of operation fails to be even generally intelligent no matter how well it implements that modality. If the human mind does really well with physics, then, therefore, we should be able to make a lot of progress by making a system that does really well with physics. So, knowing that, we find that there are many "easy" sub-problems that can be productively worked on without any breakthrough developments. Indeed, achieveing breakthrough developments can be greatly accelerated by having as much of the "grunt work" done as possible.
Once again, we need a development platform conisting of either a robotic platform or a rich VR simulation, on the scale and scope of a state of the art video game. The sense I get from projects like Deep Mind is that they seem to feel that they can short-circuit the development process of these things by bootstrapping off of a much simpler system such as Starcraft or the Atari catalog. My counter argument to that position is that while the idea of bootstrapping off of a simpler system is appealing, it is much less intuitive and may conceal important development issues. The most critical of which is whether the simplified environment presents an "AGI-complete" problem to the proposed AGI. I tihnk Minecraft is probably a lower-bound on AGI complete problems. The more the AGI's enviornment resembles the baseline human envioronment, the easier it will be for us to apply our innate understanding of human psychology to debug the AGI and hence the development should go faster even if it is, on first approximation, much more complex. -- Clowns feed off of funny money; Funny money comes from the FED so NO FED -> NO CLOWNS!!! Powers are not rights. ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/Td03911693a3a3f58-M41cac8883153344ac207c7ee Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
