Ahhh... ***that's*** why everyone always hates my cakes!!! I never realized you were supposed to **taste** the stuff ... I thought it was just supposed to look funky after you throw it in somebody's face ;-)
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 9:31 PM, Philip Hunt <cabala...@googlemail.com>wrote: > 2008/12/20 Ben Goertzel <b...@goertzel.org>: > > > > Baking a cake is a harder example. An AGI trained in a virtual world > could > > certainly follow a recipe to make a passable cake. But it would never > learn > > to be a **really good** baker in the virtual world, unless the virtual > world > > were fabulously realistic in its simulation (and we don't know how to > make > > it that good, right now). Being a really good baker requires a lot of > > intuition for subtle physical properties of ingredients, not just > following > > a recipe and knowing the primitive basics of naive physics... > > A sense of taste would probably help too. > > -- > Philip Hunt, <cabala...@googlemail.com> > Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. > See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html > > > ------------------------------------------- > 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/?& > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > -- Ben Goertzel, PhD CEO, Novamente LLC and Biomind LLC Director of Research, SIAI b...@goertzel.org "I intend to live forever, or die trying." -- Groucho Marx ------------------------------------------- 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=123753653-47f84b Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com