Hi, On 11/6/06, James Ratcliff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ben, I think it would be beneficial, at least to me, to see a list of tasks. Not as a "defining" measure in any way. But as a list of work items that a general AGI should be able to complete effectively.
I agree, and I think that this requires a lot of care. Carefully articulating such a list is on my agenda for the first half of next year (not that it will take full-time for 6 months, it will be a "background task"). My approach will be based on porting a number of basic ideas from human developmental psychology into the non-human-like-AGI-acting-in-a-simulation-world domain, but will also be useful beyond this particular domain...
My thoughts on a list like this is that is should be marked in increasing levels of difficulty, so an initial AGI should have the ability to complete the first level of tasks and so on.
Agreed, although most tasks will have the notion of "partial completion" rather than being binary in nature.
Ex: One item of AI task is a simple question answering ability, that can respond with an answer currently in the Knowledge base of the system. A more expansive item, would require the QA task to go and get outside information.
This seems not to be a very well-specified task ;-) ... the problem is that it refers to the internal state of the AI system (its "knowledge base"), whereas the tasks I will define will refer only to the system's external behaviors given various sets of stimuli... -- Ben ----- 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
