On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 9:57 PM, Matt Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> --- On Fri, 10/3/08, Ben Goertzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You seem to misunderstand the notion of a Global Brain, see > > > > http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/GBRAIFAQ.html > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_brain > > You are right. That is exactly what I am proposing. > > It's too bad you missed the Global Brain 0 workshop that Francis Heylighen and I organized in Brussels in 2001 ... Some larger follow-up Global Brain conferences were planned, but Francis and I both got distracted by other things.... It would be an exaggeration to say that any real collective conclusions were arrived at, during the workshop, but it was certainly interesting... > > > I am open to alternative suggestions. Well, what I suggested in my 2002 book "Creating Internet Intelligence" was essentially a global brain based on a hybrid model: -- a human-plus-computer-network global brain along the lines of what you and Heylighen suggest coupled with -- a superhuman AI mind, that interacts with and is coupled with this global brain To use a simplistic metaphor, -- the superhuman AI mind at the "center" of the hybrid global brain would provide an overall goal system and attentional-focus, and -- the human-plus-computer-network portion of the hybrid global brain would serve as a sort of "unconscious" for the hybrid global brain... This is one way that humans may come to, en masse, interact with superhuman non-human AI Anyway this was a fun line of thinking but since that point I diverted myself more towards the creation of the superhuman-AI component At the time I had a lot of ideas about how to modify Internet infrastructure so as to make it more copacetic to the emergence of a human-plus-computer-network, collective-intelligence type global brain. I think many of those ideas could have worked, but they are not the direction the development of the Net worked, and obviously I (like you) lack the influence to nudge the Net-masters in that direction. Keeping a build-a-superhuman-AI project moving is not easy either, but it's a more tractable task... -- Ben G ------------------------------------------- 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=114414975-3c8e69 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
