There's been a lot of argument (some of it from me, indeed) about what type of intelligence is necessary for AGI. Let me take a shot at resolving it.
Suppose we say there are two types of intelligence (not in any rigorous sense, just in broad classification): Deliberative. Able to prove theorems, solve the Busy Beaver problem for small N, write and prove properties of small functions, construct cellular automata computers for small functions, derive small functions from specifications, notice what it's doing, accept symbolic heuristics to improve its efficiency, think about said heuristics etc. Symbolic intelligence that can, in some crude sense, copy some of the things humans can symbolically do. Spatial. Able to perceive patterns in two or three dimensions. Can be used, with mods, for a robot visual cortex; image recognition; given a series of photographs of a landmark from varying viewpoints, can derive a 3d model and backtrack that to the 2d image visible from any other viewpoint; can pathfind units around a map in a video game; can make much better than random guesses as to likely folds of a new protein chain; can animate a cartoon from the description "cat sits on mat". I think we should be able to agree on this: AGI should ultimately have both Deliberative and Spatial faculties; after all, humans have both, and there are jobs needing both, that are currently done by humans, and many of those jobs are boring, so that humans would rather be freed to do something more creative; so there is certainly room for AI work in both D and S. So we may then disagree on which should come first. In biological evolution, S came first, of course. It was hard - likely a hard step in the Great Filter - to make D on top of S. It was done, still, and he who thinks we should try S first, then D, is not necessarily irrational, even though I disagree with him. I have some outline ideas on how to make S, but not scalably, not that would easily generalize. So I think D should come first; and I think I now know how to make D, in a way that would hopefully then scale to S. I do not, of course, expect anyone except me to believe those personal claims; but they are my reasons for believing the right path is D then S. Is there a consensus at least that AGI paths fall into the two categories of D-then-S or S-then-D? ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=101455710-f059c4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
