Are you familiar with Marcus Hutter's work on Universal AI? The general message there is: Truly, fully general intelligence is only feasible with infinite computing power.
However, that's not really what matters in our physical universe, let alone in the human world here on Earth... Eons ago I aimed to formalize a more real-life-oriented variant of Legg and Hutters formalization of the general intelligence notion, http://agi-conf.org/2010/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/paper_14.pdf The "no free lunch theorem" mathematically connects w/ the statistical decision theory underlying Hutter's work, it's all essentially the same story. In essence, we may not get a free lunch but we can get a cheaper lunch if we buy it from our relatives. I.e. yes real-world general intelligence has to do with biasing somewhat-general intelligence toward the specific patterns in the actual universe the intelligence has to deal with. Deep NNs are a small example of this, in that their hierarchical structure represents a biasing toward the hierarchical structuring commonplace in our region of the physical universe. I tried to formalize the relation btw world/goal structures and mind-structures here, https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/A-Mind-World-Correspondence-Principle-Goertzel/ec4ca4401f38ec10d8d3cf40c39af0a4bfe86557 How useful this sort of formalization is for actually building AGI is an open question. My current AGI research is focused on formalizations that bridge the math used in practical integrative AGI systems like OpenCog with the math used in these sorts of abstract formalizations... -- Ben On Mon, Feb 3, 2020 at 8:44 PM Danko Nikolić <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I am curious to learn what the people here think about the idea that the > notion of general intelligence contradicts the no-free-lunch-theorem. > > Do you guys agree that a contradiction exists? If so, is that a problem? > Would that mean that no form of general intelligence could ever exist? > > Also, does anyone here undertake any explicit efforts to circumvent this > contradiction? > > Thanks a lot. > > Danko > > Artificial General Intelligence List / AGI / see discussions + participants + > delivery options Permalink -- Ben Goertzel, PhD http://goertzel.org “The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.” -- Jack Kerouac ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T353f2000d499d93b-Ma82397489d5d483acb14b1ac Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
