I don't know. We'll find that out when it happens (maybe, if someone bothers to keep tabs). But I bet it would be less than writing a new program to do each of those jobs.
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 6:37 PM, Matt Mahoney <mattmahone...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 7:13 PM, Aaron Hosford <hosfor...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > My point was that once we have AGI, we will have this capability, not > that we already do. You are assuming no software, or possibly existing > software, and trying to reason about the current state of affairs, but I'm > talking hypothetically. Once we've created the software, the cost of > training drops to near zero (only the time it takes to train the robot > once) rather than being the cost of writing the code from scratch for each > task, which would be extravagant each time. So it seems clear that software > that learns by example is the way to go, rather than hand-coding each > possible task. > > Let's assume that we have cheap, powerful hardware (enough to model > human brains) and that we solved the hard AI problems like language, > vision, art, robotics, and modeling human behavior. How much effort > will be required to train billions of robots to do all the work that 7 > billion people now do? No two jobs are exactly alike, but you may > assume that you can copy the mind of the robot doing the job closest > to the one you want to train. How much additional teaching time is > required? > > -- > -- Matt Mahoney, mattmahone...@gmail.com > > > ------------------------------------------- > AGI > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/23050605-2da819ff > Modify Your Subscription: > https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > ------------------------------------------- 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
