On 12/10/2007, Edward W. Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > (2) WITH REGARD TO BOOKWORLD -- IF ALL THE WORLD'S BOOKS WERE IN > ELECTRONIC > FORM AND YOU HAD A MASSIVE AMOUNT OF AGI HARDWARD TO READ THEM ALL I > THINK > YOU WOULD BE ABLE TO GAIN A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF WORLD KNOWLEDGE > FROM THEM, > AND THAT SUCH WORLD KNOWLEDGE WOULD PROVIDE A SURPRISING AMOUNT > OF GROUNDING > AND BE QUITE USEFUL.
You can get lots of information from books. But I don't find the implicit view of an intelligence, suggested by this scenario, well enough specified. An intelligence is not a passive information sponge, it only tends to acquire the information that is useful to its goal. So before being able to answer the question of what a bookworld AGI would be able to do, you would have to tell me what its goals are. For example I could see an AGI that ignored all the semantic knowledge embedded within text and just analyse the text in terms of statistics, bigraphs/trigraphs etc and be very good at decryption problems, but not very good at answering questions based on the emotions of the participants of a story. Either could be learned dependent upon the goals. I also don't think that just shoving lots of information at a computer will be a productive way of teaching it. Having a teacher on hand that can point out the missing concept or answer a question should be able to vastly speed up how well an AGI learns. Brute forcing the combinatorial explosion, is not really an option in my view. Will Pearson ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=52994438-1e4465
