[agi] Dr. Turing, I presume?

2004-01-09 Thread Arthur T. Murray
The artificial Mind project http://mind.sourceforge.net/weblog.html is an attempt to create a Prosperity Engine based on artificial intelligence in robot workers. In joint stewardship of Earth, the humans will do the humane jobs such as caring for the young and the old, while AI Mind-ed robots wi

Re: [agi] Dr. Turing, I presume?

2004-01-09 Thread deering
Arthur, I am disappointed with the way that A.I. is depicted in science fiction books and movies.  Unfortunately most people get their idea of what the future will be like from movies and novels.  Why don't they show A.I. and robots in a more realistic scenario?  Take Star Trek for instance.

RE: [agi] Dr. Turing, I presume?

2004-01-09 Thread Ben Goertzel
r Novamente codebase (which is intended to be turned into an AGI when complete)   -- Ben G   -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of deeringSent: Friday, January 09, 2004 9:19 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: [agi] Dr. Turing, I pres

Re: [agi] Dr. Turing, I presume?

2004-01-10 Thread deering
Ben, you are absolutely correct.  It was my intention to exaggerate the situation a bit without actually crossing the line.  But I don't think it is much of an exaggeration to say that a 'baby' Novamente even with limited hardware and speed is a tremendous event in the history of life on Ear

RE: [agi] Dr. Turing, I presume?

2004-01-10 Thread Ben Goertzel
gSent: Saturday, January 10, 2004 8:10 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: [agi] Dr. Turing, I presume? Ben, you are absolutely correct.  It was my intention to exaggerate the situation a bit without actually crossing the line.  But I don't think it is much of an exaggeration to

Re: [agi] Dr. Turing, I presume?

2004-01-10 Thread Brad Wyble
On Sat, 10 Jan 2004, deering wrote: > Ben, you are absolutely correct. It was my intention to exaggerate the > situation a bit without actually crossing the line. But I don't think > it is much of an exaggeration to say that a 'baby' Novamente even with > limited hardware and speed is a tremendo

RE: [agi] Dr. Turing, I presume?

2004-01-10 Thread Ben Goertzel
Brad wrote: > So that if/when Ben succeeds, how is anyone to know that they're looking > at a real baby AI, and not some slight enhancement of the AIBO? They > won't. Only you, I and maybe 998 other other people would understand the > significance and these 1000 only because we're well versed wi

RE: [agi] Dr. Turing, I presume?

2004-01-11 Thread Brad Wyble
> > I see your point, but I'm not so sure you're correct. If you're devoting resources specifically to getting some attention, you may indeed speed up the process. I wish you luck. However even if you do get such attention, it will still take quite a while for the repercussions to percolate

RE: [agi] Dr. Turing, I presume?

2004-03-02 Thread Ben Goertzel
Brad wrote: > > I see your point, but I'm not so sure you're correct. > > If you're devoting resources specifically to getting some attention, you > may indeed speed up the process. I wish you luck. Well, I'm not devoting resources to getting widespread attention for AGI right now -- because th