Wouldn't evolutionary seed AI find the parallel process and test that for advanatages?
Dan Goe ---------------------------------------------------- >From : William Pearson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To : agi@v2.listbox.com Subject : Worthwhile time sinks was Re: [agi] list vs. forum Date : Mon, 12 Jun 2006 23:15:41 +0100 > On 10/06/06, sanjay padmane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I feel you should discontinue the list. That will force people to post there. > > I'm not using the forum only because no one else is using it (or very > > few), and everyone is perhaps doing the same. > > I also wouldn't be interested in using the forum. > > > Another advantage is that it will expose the discussions to google and > > it will draw more people with increasing content. > > > > If we want to increase content and get more people interested I think > the best thing to devote our time and effort to is a wiki rather than > a forum. Threads have little chance of staying on topic and finding > things in them as they meander around becomes nightmarish. > > As we can't present a definitive answer to what is intelligence the > best we can do is try and classify the various possible answers to > questions around intelligence so that people can see the different > views and the projects/people that are working/thinking in that > direction. > > A bit like this > > http://www.macrovu.com/CCTGeneralInfo.html > > But in wiki form and not so focused on the ambiguous term "think". > > I expect we will get a variety of different classifications of > approaches, from the logic based strong self-improvers to those that > fastidiously copy the current knowledge of a human brain. > > People can then find the projects/people they are interested in and > read their back postings on this list. > > An example of one topic would be "How important is parallelism to Intelligence" > > Potential answers are things like > > 1) Unimportant, the church-turing thesis shows that any parallel > process can be emulated by serial processes > 2) The human brain is vastly parallel we need to copy this to properly > understand it > 3) Parallel processes are needed so that seperate competing programs > can not interfere with the other programs processing, this can be > emulated in a serial process but this loses a lot of speed and the > ability to optimise for energy concerns. > 4) Parallel processes are simply more efficient for the vast > processing needed to be done for visual processing and similar. > > Thoughts/suggestions? > > Will Pearson > > ------- > To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, > please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
