On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 7:21 AM, Mike Tintner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> BenI think that an engineering based approach will succeed first, just as > we succeeded in building airplanes first, rather than evolving a birdlike > flying machine out of a prebiotic molecular soup... > Ben, > > You've got to stop using this analogy - it's a giant "cheat" :). Humans > have massively improved on nature on perhaps literally billions of > SPECIALISED tasks - like flying. > > But living organisms are GENERAL(-purpose) machines - capable of > general-purpose movement and general-purpose thought/intelligence. A bird is > vastly more than a flying machine. > Agree. No analogy is exact, though. That analogy makes the point that engineering solutions can outperform biological-imitations solutions in surprising ways. But it's not a complete analogy. > > As yet humans have not produced a SINGLE general-purpose machine that is > superior to nature or that functions, period. That is the whole challenge > for AGI and robotics. > Yes, it hasn't been done before. That's one of the many things that excites me about doing it ! ben ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=108809214-a0d121 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
