Hi Ben, Thanks for that information. Let me mull over it.
Danko On Tue, Feb 4, 2020 at 9:57 AM Ben Goertzel <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -- Prof. Dr. Danko Nikolić www.danko-nikolic.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/danko-nikolic/ ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T353f2000d499d93b-M4ea4ac0e9b0afcdf24fae696 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
