--- Mike Tintner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Matt : a super-google will answer these questions by routing them to
> experts on these topics that will use natural language in their narrow
> domains of expertise.
> 
> And Santa will answer every child's request, and we'll all live happily ever
> after.  Amen.

If you have a legitimate criticism of the technology or its funding plan, I
would like to hear it.  I understand there will be doubts about a system I
expect to cost over $1 quadrillion and take 30 years to build.

The protocol specifies natural language.  This is not a hard problem in narrow
domains.  It dates back to the 1960's.  Even in broad domains, most of the
meaning of a message is independent of word order.  Google works on this
principle.

But this is beside the point.  The critical part of the design is an incentive
for peers to provide useful services in exchange for resources.  Peers that
appear most intelligent and useful (and least annoying) are most likely to
have their messages accepted and forwarded by other peers.  People will
develop domain experts and routers and put them on the net because they can
make money through highly targeted advertising.

Google would be a peer on the network with a high reputation.  But Google
controls only 0.1% of the computing power on the Internet.  It will have to
compete with a system that allows updates to be searched instantly, where
queries are persistent, and where a query or message can initiate
conversations with other people in real time.

> Which are these areas of science, technology, arts, or indeed any area of 
> human activity, period, where the experts all agree and are NOT in deep 
> conflict?
> 
> And if that's too hard a question, which are the areas of AI or AGI, where 
> the experts all agree and are not in deep conflict?

I don't expect the experts to agree.  It is better that they don't.  There are
hard problem remaining to be solved in language modeling, vision, and
robotics.  We need to try many approaches with powerful hardware.  The network
will decide who the winners are.


-- Matt Mahoney, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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