Stephen Reed wrote:
At the time that the Texai bootstrap English dialog system is
available, I'll begin fleshing out the hundreds of agencies for
which I hope to recruit human mentors. Each agency I establish will
have paragraphs of English text to describe its mission, including
its relationship with commanding and subordinate agencies. Mentors
then will use the dialog system to teach each of their respective
agencies the knowledge and skills it requires for its mission.
Learned skills will be compiled into Java code for execution.
Hopefully this will advance into automatic programming from high
level requirements, because programming is a skill which can be
taught. Furthermore, I plan agencies whose missions will accomplish
recursive self-improvement (e.g. propagate best practices from the
discovering agency to all applicable agencies).
This jumped out at me because I just read an article where someone was
talking about how we don't know how to program:
http://paulspontifications.blogspot.com/2008/05/under-appreciated-fact-we-dont-know-how.html
There is no real process for it. We don't really know how it works.
There are plenty of courses, and it seems like we teach people to do
it, but it is a very mysterious thing. A good portion of people just
don't get it when they try to learn. Anyway, it is a very hard
problem, and I wouldn't be surprised if programming were an
AI-complete problem, because it sure seems like programming always
involves arbitrary amounts of domain knowledge, theories of mind, and
who knows what all else.
But I have to admit I am a fan of compiled programs as part of a set
of skills of an intelligent computer agent. The idea showed up in an
essay (OK, blog entry) I wrote recently.
Also, I want to thank Stephen for adding to this community. He really
stood out at AGI-08 as a level-headed, diligent creative force working
toward AGI.
andi
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