On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 5:56 PM, Ben Goertzel <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 5:31 AM, Mike Tintner <[email protected]>wrote: > >> You & others think that an AGI computer is going to be wise about the >> world by sifting through textual documents, and working out logically >> whether “JOHN LOVES MARY”. > > You're battling a straw man here, hmm? I've already been explicit that > I, personally, think it will be best to connect AGI systems to robots in > order to achieve human-like general intelligence > Wow, ferocious troll bashing, if it wasn't virtual I'd expect blood to flow abundantly :) Anyways, I wanted to interject the obvious, that a robot robot is not strictly necessary, the holy trinity of actuator, sensor and energy is needed and can be (and should be methinks, as a multitude of worthwhile experiments) provided by a trading robot, a web robot, a malware robot and the list goes on. As always, I don't think that a singular robot will have much to prove or improve (as opposed to a population of robots of the same species), but OK, 1 robot is better than 0 robot. AT ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
