oh god, my post is permanently screwed up... Me: "Physics Simulators can't actually create physics, no machine can." Matt: "Software can simulate agents in an artificial world that can make accurate predictions about that world while believing it is real and completely different than what it really is."
The world works by physics, and these software trained agents are effective in the world. They don't actually experience anything in the spiritual meaning (nor do we, at least that we can test or talk about), they just have the same effect in the computer and hence will work fine once put in a real body. Simply the computer is doing something that matches the expected behavior, for example if a motor in the world rotates like x by based on its body and signals, while in the computer some bits are known to to make it move the needed way using some bits representing its body (motor) and the environment (table), then it will work because it's the closest thing that will be known to do what we want. It's just that, no universe or magic in a computer. ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T353f2000d499d93b-Mf927bee735dd9d258e48af70 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
