Brad Paulson wrote >>> More generally, as long as AGI designers and developers insist on simulating human intelligence, they will have to deal with the AI-complete problem of natural language understanding. Looking for new approaches to this problem, many researches (including prominent members of this list) have turned to "embodiment" (or "virtual embodiment") for help. <<<
We only know one human level intelligence which works. And this works with embodiment. So for this reason, it seems to be an useful approach. But, of course, if we always use the humans as a guide to develop AGI then we will probably obtain similar limitations we observe in humans. I think an AGI which should be useful for us, must be a very good scientist, physicist and mathematician. Is the human kind of learning by experience and the human kind of intelligence good for this job? I don't think so. Most people on this planet are very poor in these disciplines and I don't think that this is only a question of education. There seems to be a very subtle fine tuning of genes necessary to change the level of intelligence from a monkey to the average human. And there is an even more subtle fine tuning necessary to obtain a good mathematician. This is discouraging for the development of AGI because it shows that human level intelligence is not only a question of the right architecture but it seems to be more a question of the right fine tuning of some parameters. Even if we know that we have the right software architecture, then the real hard problems would still arise. We know that humans can swim. But who would create a swimming machine by following the example of the human anatomy? Similarly, we know that some humans can be scientists. But is it real the best way to follow the example of humans to create an artificial scientists? Probably not. If you have the goal to create an artificial scientist in nanotechnology, is it a good strategy to let this artificial agent walk through an artificial garden with trees and clouds and so on? Is this the best way to make progress in nanotechnology, economy and so on? Probably not. But if we have no idea how to do it better, we have no other chance than to follow the example of human intelligence. ------------------------------------------- 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
