Sounds like everyone would want one, or, one AGI could service us all. And that AGI could do all of the heavy thinking for us. We could become pleasure seeking, fibrillating blobs of flesh and bone suckling on the electronic brains of one big giant AGI.
John From: Matt Mahoney [mailto:matmaho...@yahoo.com] Sent: Friday, July 02, 2010 1:16 PM To: agi Subject: Re: [agi] masterpiece on an iPad An AGI only has to predict your behavior so that it can serve you better by giving you what you want without you asking for it. It is not a copy of your mind. It is a program that can call a function that simulates your mind for some arbitrary purpose determined by its programmer. -- Matt Mahoney, matmaho...@yahoo.com _____ From: John G. Rose <johnr...@polyplexic.com> To: agi <agi@v2.listbox.com> Sent: Fri, July 2, 2010 11:39:23 AM Subject: RE: [agi] masterpiece on an iPad An AGI may not really think like we do, it may just execute code. Though I suppose you could program a lot of fuzzy loops and idle speculation, entertaining possibilities, having human "think" envy.. John From: Matt Mahoney [mailto:matmaho...@yahoo.com] Sent: Friday, July 02, 2010 8:21 AM To: agi Subject: Re: [agi] masterpiece on an iPad AGI is all about building machines that think, so you don't have to. -- Matt Mahoney, matmaho...@yahoo.com _____ From: Mike Tintner <tint...@blueyonder.co.uk> To: agi <agi@v2.listbox.com> Sent: Fri, July 2, 2010 9:37:51 AM Subject: Re: [agi] masterpiece on an iPad that's like saying cartography or cartoons could be done a lot faster if they just used cameras - ask Michael to explain what the hand can draw that the camera can't From: Matt Mahoney <mailto:matmaho...@yahoo.com> Sent: Friday, July 02, 2010 2:21 PM To: agi <mailto:agi@v2.listbox.com> Subject: Re: [agi] masterpiece on an iPad It could be done a lot faster if the iPad had a camera. -- Matt Mahoney, matmaho...@yahoo.com _____ From: Mike Tintner <tint...@blueyonder.co.uk> To: agi <agi@v2.listbox.com> Sent: Fri, July 2, 2010 6:28:58 AM Subject: [agi] masterpiece on an iPad http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturevideo/artvideo/7865736/Artist-crea tes-masterpiece-on-an-iPad.html McLuhan argues that touch is the central sense - the one that binds the others. He may be right. The i-devices integrate touch into intelligence. agi | <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now> Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/> | Modify Your Subscription <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/> agi | Archives | Modify Your Subscription <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/> <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/> agi | Archives | Modify Your Subscription <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/> agi | Archives | Modify Your Subscription <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/> <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/> <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/> agi | Archives | Modify Your Subscription <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/> <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/> agi | Archives | Modify Your Subscription <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/> <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/> ------------------------------------------- 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=8660244-6e7fb59c Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com