Since I voiced my concern with the AGI Department of Information Systems Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (+27)-(0)21-6504256 Fax: (+27)-(0)21-6502280 Office: Leslie Commerce 4.21 => Singularity automatic assumption here earlier (give me 1000 times more time than Einstein to think up Relativity Theory and I still couldn't; give me 1000 times more data and I'll be seeing less, not more forest), let me add corollaries to/musings about Jef's argument: (1) if (by force) we confine a super-AGI to a single problem situation or even our own limited environment for "long enough" (ignore the ethical slavery aspect for a moment), won't it go crazy - just like many geniuses go crazy or at the very least very eccentric after a relatively short life of intensive intellectual creativity (2) will we recognise the difference between AGI genius and AGI craziness even at the early stage in its life - we hardly do recognize it in human geniuses (and remember that the parameters in a normal human only needs to be slightly off before (s)he is considered crazy - it'll be hard enough to get the parameters right for our human-level AGI) (3) once/if it goes off in its own super-intelligence space (likely to be in intellectual domains such as maths) I doubt that we will ever be able to recognize what it does (try reading an advanced maths, physics or theology/philosophy book) Jean-Paul Van Belle >"Jef Allbright" [EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2007/04/15 21:40:06 >> >While such a machine intelligence will quickly far exceed human >capabilities, from its own perspective it will rapidly hit a wall due >to having exhausted all opportunities for effective interaction with >its environment. It could then explore an open-ended possibility >space à la schmidhuber, but such increasingly detached exploration >will be increasingly detached from "intelligence" in an effective >sense. >>On 4/15/07, Pei Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> However, to me "Singularity" is a stronger claim than "superhuman >> intelligence". It implies that the intelligence of AI will increase >> exponentially, to a point that is shorter than what we can perceive or >> understand. That is what I'm not convinced.
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