Indeed... What we are running into here is simply the poverty of compact formal definitions.
AI researchers long ago figured out that it's difficult to create a compact formal definition of "chair" or "arch" or table... Ditto for "Singularity", not surprisingly... This doesn't mean compact definitions aren't useful in some contexts, just that they should not be interpreted to fully capture the concepts to which they are attached... -- Ben G On 10/10/06, BillK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 10/10/06, Ben Goertzel wrote: <snip> > > But from the perspective of deeper understanding, I don't see why it's > critical to agree on a single definition, or that there be a compact > and crisp definition. It's a complex world and these are complex > phenomena we're talking about, as yet dimly understood. > I would add that 'The Singularity' has to be a world-affecting event. If next year a quad-core pc becomes a self-improving AI in a basement in Atlanta, then disappears a hour later into another dimension, then so far as the rest of the world is concerned, the Singularity never happened. BillK ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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