Re: [singularity] Will AGI make us stupid?

2007-05-20 Thread Christian Mauduit
Hello, On Mon, May 21, 2007 5:48 am, Matt Mahoney wrote: > I wonder if we will figure out how to program a computer to wonder? And > if we > do, should we? [] > First, there is > no need to duplicate human weaknesses. A replica of a human brain would > perform worse at simple arithmetic prob

Re: [singularity] Will AGI make us stupid?

2007-05-20 Thread Matt Mahoney
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I think that humans will always be disctinct from A.I. because humans have > the capacity to wonder. A computer (to my knowledge) is programmed with > right/wrong functions at its most basic level (although some may be > programmed based on p

Re: [singularity] Will AGI make us stupid?

2007-05-20 Thread Matt Mahoney
--- Nathan Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/21/07, Matt Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > Now there really is no difference between being able to judge the quality of > > a > > movie (relative to a particular viewer or audience), and being able to > > generate high quality mo

Re: [singularity] Will AGI make us stupid?

2007-05-20 Thread qbkca84
a computer ever comprehend them? I apologize for my inexperience with A.I.; I am simply a curious high school student. :) Chris Anderson -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: singularity@v2.listbox.com Sent: Sun, 20 May 2007 3:58 PM Subject: [singularity] Will AGI

Re: [singularity] Will AGI make us stupid?

2007-05-20 Thread Nathan Cook
On 5/21/07, Matt Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Now there really is no difference between being able to judge the quality of a movie (relative to a particular viewer or audience), and being able to generate high quality movies. So is it just a lack of ambition that prevents your local

Re: [singularity] Will AGI make us stupid?

2007-05-20 Thread Matt Mahoney
l <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 18:35:27 > To:singularity@v2.listbox.com > Subject: Re: [singularity] Will AGI make us stupid? > > And what happens when AGI solves art? This seems to be a neglected area, > but > does music really need to be recorded? Wh

Re: [singularity] Will AGI make us stupid?

2007-05-20 Thread hpotter4
o:singularity@v2.listbox.com Subject: Re: [singularity] Will AGI make us stupid? And what happens when AGI solves art?  This seems to be a neglected area, but does music really need to be recorded?  What if it were possible for a program to distinguish good music from bad, or equivalently, create good m

Re: [singularity] Will AGI make us stupid?

2007-05-20 Thread Benjamin Goertzel
And what happens when AGI solves art? This seems to be a neglected area, but does music really need to be recorded? What if it were possible for a program to distinguish good music from bad, or equivalently, create good music? How could human artists compete with machines that can customize t

Re: [singularity] Will AGI make us stupid?

2007-05-20 Thread Matt Mahoney
--- Benjamin Goertzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > What will be left for unaugmented, non-uploaded humans after computers can > > outdo > > them in all intellectual and athletic tasks? > > > > Art and sex, I would suppose ;-) > > > > After all it's still fun to learn to play Bach even t

Re: [singularity] Will AGI make us stupid?

2007-05-20 Thread Benjamin Goertzel
What will be left for unaugmented, non-uploaded humans after computers can outdo them in all intellectual and athletic tasks? Art and sex, I would suppose ;-) After all it's still fun to learn to play Bach even though Wanda Landowska did it better... -- Ben G Basically, humans will have to

Re: [singularity] Will AGI make us stupid?

2007-05-20 Thread Benjamin Goertzel
Peter Thiel, a businessman I know who is a damn good chess player, told me the same story about chess. Now he is a financial trader, and feels he can outperform software in this domain. But when software can outperform him at trading, he'll get sick of that too. What will be left for unaugmente

[singularity] Will AGI make us stupid?

2007-05-20 Thread Matt Mahoney
I used to like to solve Sudoku puzzles, and thought about the mental process I used to solve them. Then I decided it would be a bigger challenge to put that process into code, and wrote http://cs.fit.edu/~mmahoney/sudoku/sudoku.html I thought it was cool that I could write a program that was smart