Before falling silent, WBAI made some pretty, bold statements. I did not agree with their hypothesis, but it was theirs to experiment with. I never thought AGI should mean replicating the human brain. While brains are generic, decades of research have shown how individual brains also are highly specialized. Begs the question, whose brain did they want to replicate by 2030? My guess was, an engineering scientists' brain. How generic is that in reality?
With regards transferring an image of humanity into a machine, Apple set out to do that. Their journey was recorded in "The soul of a machine". It seems to be an impossible dream. Yet, I'm of the educated opinion it can be done. I've repeatedly stated on this forum; unless you become AGI, you could never realize AGI. Should we start at Philosophical thought then? No, I think the appropriate departure point would be methodology. Show me how you're going to generate sentient machines? ________________________________ From: Alan Grimes via AGI <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, 30 May 2019 05:47 To: Nanograte Knowledge Technologies via AGI Subject: [agi] What I mean by "synthetic personality" In the discussions (rabid rants) in favor of mind uploading, the product of the upload is described as a personality, that is asserted to be yours, by virtue of functioning just like yours. This is assenine but the idea of a human-analog piece of software serves to further clarify what is meant by referring to an AI. So you have AI in general, (as apposed to general AI). Then within that, general AI systems that could include mainframe type systems similar to IBM's Watson (in general shape and form). And finally, within that category we have systems that specifically mimic the human mind and operate more or less like a human does. I find this last type most compelling for a number of reasons, even if it were networked with and served as an avatar for a more alien type of AGI, or a human user via a neural interface. Furthermore, the abandonment of trying to emulate the "identity" of a specific human being is tremendously liberating because it permits a much higher level of abstraction in the code, yielding up to a 1,000x performance boost as well as eliminate all nececessity to emulate specific brain quirks either common to humans or specific to the individual being emulated and thus achieve even more performance. There is an organization in Japan that appears to be actively pursuing this line of research: https://wba-initiative.org/en/about/ If you know of others, please share the links. -- Please report bounces from this address to [email protected] Powers are not rights. ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/Tbc1510191f9871a5-M43442c67eaf68359d53a6cf0 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
