So . . . . given that the biological neurons have all this additional
complexity that I have listed before, are you going to attempt to implement
it or are you going to declare it as unnecessary (with the potential that,
if you are wrong, you may doom your AGI effort before you ever get started)?
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From: "J. Andrew Rogers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <agi@v2.listbox.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2008 4:32 PM
Subject: Re: [agi] Ideological Interactions Need to be Studied
On Jun 1, 2008, at 12:39 PM, Mark Waser wrote:
What do you mean by computationally simple?
Meaning there is a trivial set of functions and/or computational model
that captures the utility. No need to accommodate patterns below the very
high noise floor of wetware or which do not have a material computational
purpose (e.g. side effects of biological maintenance).
Explain to me how *you* construct a neural network that takes all of
this into account.
It depends on what you mean by "takes all this into account". Unless you
are a biologist of some type, physical fidelity is a complete waste of
time but you seem to leaning that way. The seconds hand of a mechanical
clock may be driven by a complex dynamical system but that does not make
it not equivalent in every important way to an utterly trivial
solid-state counter.
So in short, I would not construct a "neural network that takes all of
this into account". I would construct a functionally equivalent
computational model that coincidentally converges on an approximation of
the structure and behavior of a biological neural network. I'm
interested in AGI, not physiology.
Obsessing over biological fidelity is the hallmark of cargo cult AI, the
fervent hope that with sufficiently elaborate neural network theater the
gods will deliver a mind.
J. Andrew Rogers
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