Joshua Fox wrote:
Josh,
Your point about layering makes perfect sense.
I just ordered your book, but, impatient as I am, could I ask a question
about this, though I've asked a similar question before:
Why have not the elite of intelligent and open-minded leading
AI researchers not attempted a multi-layered approach?
"Elite"? There is no governing scientific authority until someone
actually builds an AI.
It's good for a layperson to try to defer to a more knowledgeable
scientific authority when possible, but still, no more than that
authority has earned. In this case, the present cream of the crop
doesn't know how to build AI - they know a hell of a lot but not
*that* much. Just because an authority knows more AI than you do,
doesn't mean that their mastery is so great that you should be
astonished at the proposition that they have gotten something wrong.
If they'd built an AI, yes, but they haven't. There is no established
scientific theory, you can't defer to it.
"But... if that's a good idea, why hasn't someone else tried it?" is
sheer inertia. Grit in the gears of science. Cognitive mud. There
is no herd yet, stop trying to join it.
--
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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