--- "Eric B. Ramsay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "John G. Rose" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >If you look at the state of internet based intelligence now, all the > data > >and its structure, the potential for chain reaction or a sort of > structural > >vacuum exists and it is accumulating a potential at an increasing > rate. > >IMO... > > So you see the arrival of a Tipping Point as per Malcolm Gladwell. > Whether I physically benefit from the arrival of the Singularity or > not, I just want to see the damn thing. I would invest some modest > sums in AGI if we could get a huge collection plate going around > (these collection plate amounts add up!).
You won't see a singularity. As I explain in http://www.mattmahoney.net/singularity.html an intelligent agent (you) is not capable of recognizing agents of significantly greater intelligence. We don't know whether a singularity has already occurred and the world we observe is the result. It is consistent with the possibility, e.g. it is finite, Turing computable, and obeys Occam's Razor (AIXI). As for AGI research, I believe the most viable path is a distributed architecture that uses the billions of human brains and computers already on the Internet. What is needed is an infrastructure that routes information to the right experts and an economy that rewards intelligence and friendliness. I described one such architecture in http://www.mattmahoney.net/agi.html It differs significantly from the usual approach of trying to replicate a human mind. I don't believe that one person or a small group can solve the AGI problem faster than the billions of people on the Internet are already doing. -- Matt Mahoney, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------- singularity Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/11983/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/11983/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=4007604&id_secret=98631122-712fa4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
