It's clear that prediction is one of the important capabilities that an AGI needs to have
What's less clear is whether it's productive to view predictive as **the core** cognitive functionality of human-level intelligence, as Jeff Hawkins and others have suggested -- Ben G On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 7:37 AM, Matt Mahoney via AGI <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 6:10 AM, Logan Streondj via AGI <[email protected]> > wrote: >> prediction and AGI have almost nothing in common. >> I don't know why people here are so stuck up on it. > > You are able to catch a ball because you can predict how it will move. > You are able to get to work on time because you predict that when you > set your alarm clock that it will wake you up in the morning and you > can predict how long it will take to get there after you wake up. You > are able to understand my words because you can predict a large > fraction of them and only need to remember the differences. Just > because you aren't consciously aware of your own thought processes > doesn't mean you don't think. > > -- > -- Matt Mahoney, [email protected] > > > ------------------------------------------- > AGI > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/212726-deec6279 > Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com -- Ben Goertzel, PhD http://goertzel.org "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." -- George Bernard Shaw ------------------------------------------- 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
