Mike wrote: > Personally, my guess is that serious mindreading machines will be a reality > in the not too distant future - before AGI and seriously autonomous mobile > robots.
Nooooo way. Tell that to the neuroscientists in your local university neuro lab, and they'll get a good laugh ;-) The future course of AGI is contentious and uncertain (though I have my own strong opinions), but it seems very clear that mobile robotics tech is more advanced than mind-reading-type brain-imaging, and apt to progress far faster... We have no f***-ing idea how to read thoughts from the brain right now -- whereas we do have a pretty well worked out theory of probabilistic robotics, and are in a phase of optimizing and tuning and generalizing and getting the details right... What is the empirical grounds for your optimism? Just to be clear: I am sure that mindreading technology is coming, it's your relative timing estimate that perplexes me... -- Ben G ----- 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/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=76052095-6b5f73
