Brad Pausen wrote >>> The question I'm raising in this thread is more one of priorities and allocation of scarce resources. Engineers and scientists comprise only about 1% of the world's population. Is human-level NLU worth the resources it has consumed, and will continue to consume, in the pre-AGI-1.0 stage? Even if we eventually succeed, would it be worth the enormous cost? Wouldn't it be wiser to "go with the strengths" of both humans and computers during this (or any other) stage of AGI development? <<<
I think it is not so important what abilities our first AGIs will have. Human language would be a nice feature but it is not necessary. It is more important how it works. We want to develop an intelligent software which has the potential to solve very different problems in different domains. This is the main idea of AGI. Imagine someone thinks he has build an AGI. How can he convince the community that it is in fact AGI and not AI? If he shows some applications where his AGI works then this is an indication for the G in his AGI but it is no proof at all. Even a turing test would be no good test because given n questions for the AGI I can never be sure whether it can pass the test for further n questions. AGI is inherently a white box problem not a black box problem. A chess playing computer is for many people a stunning machine. But we know HOW it works and only(!) because we know the HOW we can evaluate the potential of this approach for general AGI. Brad, for this reason I think your question about whether the first AGI should have the ability for human language or not is not so important. If you can create a software which has the ability to solve very different problems in very different domains than you have solved the main problem of AGI. Of course it is important to show what the AGI can do with some examples. But for an evaluation of its potential to be a real AGI it is more important how it works. ------------------------------------------- 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
