--- "YKY (Yan King Yin)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On 5/4/08, Stephen Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > As perhaps you know, I want to organize Texai as a vast multitude
> of agents situated in a hierarchical control system,  grouped as
> possibly
> redundant, load-sharing, agents within an agency sharing a specific
> mission.  I have given some thought to the message content, and
> assuming
> that my bootstrap English dialog effort actually works, then English
> language as an Agent Control Language vocabulary becomes possible at
> the
> more deliberative, higher levels of the hierarchy, when the duration
> of NL parsing and generation is small compared to the overall task
> duration.
> 
> Let me offer my naive opinion:
> 
> The distributive agents would be owned by different people on the
> net, who
> would want their agents to do *different* things for them.  This
> occurs simultaneously.
> 
> We need to distinguish 2 situations:
> A)  where all the agents cooperate to solve ONE problem
> B)  where agents are solving their own problems
> 
> Your scheme would be useful for A.  But it seems that most AGI users
> would want B.  Which problem do you intend to solve?
> 
> In case B, your scheme would add a lot of complications and whether
> it'd be beneficial or not is rather unclear.
> 
> YKY

We already have many examples where cooperation between selfish agents
results in solving problems that could not be solved individually.  AIs
would ultimately communicate faster and more effectively than humans,
resulting in a more efficient division of labor and better coordination
of efforts.


-- Matt Mahoney, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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