Another reason for measurements is that it makes your goals concrete. How do you define "general intelligence"? Turing gave us a well defined goal, but there are some shortcomings. The Turing test is subjective, time consuming, isn't appropriate for robotics, and really isn't a good goal if it means deliberately degrading performance in order to appear human. So I am looking for "better" tests. I don't believe the approach of "let's just build it and see what it does" is going to produce anything useful.
I am happy enough with the long-term goal of independent scientific and mathematical discovery... And, in the short term, I am happy enough with the goals of carrying out the (AGISim versions of) the standard tasks used by development psychologists to study childrens' cognitive behavior... I don't see a real value to precisely quantifying these goals, though... Ben G ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?list_id=303
