Benjamin Goertzel wrote:
Hi,
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Maybe listing all the projects that have NOT achieved AGI might give
us some
insight.
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That information is available in numerous published histories, and is
well known to all professional researchers in the field.
...
-- Ben
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But very frequently it's difficult to find out any details of how the
program was attempting to achieve it's goals. Sometimes the info is
there, but difficult to access, and sometimes it's just missing.
E.G.: At one point I found Eurisko interesting, but I was never able to
locate the source, or any detailed information on exactly what it was
trying to do, and how it was trying to do it.
OTOH, I think that a database of working pieces would be more useful
than a collection of things that didn't work. There's altogether too
many ways to fail, and sometimes only one good way to succeed. Where
would we be if we each had to separately invent alpha-beta pruning and
minimax?
Published histories are like other histories. They cover what the
author feels is important, and leave out the details necessary for one
to make up ones own mind. (Yes, I understand lots of good reasons for
why they do this...but it's still true that that's one of the things
they do.)
What seems like a good idea to me is a sort of "Art of Computer
Programming" wiki specialized towards AI (including AGI, but not so
specialized that that's all it covers). Probably this should be done
with Wikipedia as a model, and ideally each algorithm would be
translated into several different languages (I mean LISP, Python, C++
rather than English, Russian, Japanese--though that, of course, would
have it's own value). I don't think that we could use the same major
breakdown, however. Almost everything would be both "Sorting and
Searching" and "Seminumerical Algorithms".
OTOH, to make a go of this would require several people willing to
dedicate a lot of time consistently over a long duration.
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