Ben, Thanks. Good to see developmental dimension. Still would like to see
strong examples of tests and targets you hope to meet.
One thought occurs though - if you could get an AGI machine to demonstrate a
series of adaptations however simple, like forming new words, (such as the ape
combining "water" and "bird" signs to denote "duck"), or new sentence
structures, or finding new routes round and over furniture etc, you would
probably convince people that you were at least on your way to true AGI, even
if the machine were otherwise very imperfect - BUT the only way in such
situations to prove those adaptations would be by demonstrating that the
machine had actually changed its rules and reprogrammed itself, no? The
behavioural adaptations in themselves would not be enough - they could have
been produced by some tricksy, but not really adaptive program.
----- Original Message -----
From: Benjamin Goertzel
To: singularity@v2.listbox.com
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 6:28 PM
Subject: Re: [singularity] Re: Why do you think your AGI design will work?
For example, here nearly everyone seems to be talking about plunging in and
creating a sophisticated intellectual mind more or less straight-off, but
it
takes the human brain roughly 13-20 years to develop physically and mentally
to where it is able to intellectualise - to handle concepts like "society"
and "development" and "philosophy."
Agreed, and I have written a paper on "Computational Developmental Psychology"
aimed at exploring how this development process may take place in certain
kinds
of AI systems... see
www.novamente.net/file/WCCI06_Stages.pdf
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