Benjamin Goertzel wrote:
Try & find a single example of any form of intelligence that has
ever existed in splendid individual isolation. That is so wrong an
idea - like perpetual motion - & so fundamental to the question of
superAGI's. (It's also a fascinating philosophical issue).
Oh, I see ... super-AGI's have never existed therefore they never will
exist. QED ;-p
Perpetual motion seems to be impossible according to the "laws of
physics", which are our best-so-far abstractions from our observations
of the physical world.
Super-AGI outside a sociocultural framework is certainly not ruled out
by any body of knowledge on which there is comparable consensus, or
for which there is comparable evidence!!
ben g
I think you're missing his (possibly valid) point.
1) Nobody starts as a clean slate.
2) A search for a solution works better if you start from a multitude of
separate initial positions.
I'm not sure that "Therefore we need a bunch of AGIs rather than one"
is a valid conclusion, but it *is* a defensible one. I have a suspicion
that a part of the reason for the success of humans as problem solvers
is that not only do we start from a large number of initial positions,
but also we tend to have differing goals, so when one is blocked,
another may not be. But I see no reason why, intrinsically, the same
characteristics couldn't be given to a single AGI...though the variation
in goals might be difficult.
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