On 3/6/07, Andrew Babian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Well what is intelligence if not a collection of tools?
To me, this widely accepted attitude towards AI is a major reason for the lack of progress in AGI in the past decades. A metaphor I have been using is: while computer science and the so-called "AI" have been building tools, real AI (what we call "AGI" here) should build "hands", which is more general, flexible, and efficient than any problem-specific tool. For any given specific task, it is always possible to build a tool that works better than bare hands. For the same reason, a truly intelligent system doesn't necessarily provide the best solution to a given domain problem --- to pursue that kind of goal always lead AI back to traditional computer science, both in theory and in practice. That is why "as soon as a field becomes mature, it is no longer considered AI anymore". A more detailed discussion is in http://nars.wang.googlepages.com/wang.WhatAIShouldBe.pdf Pei ----- 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
