On 28/01/2008, Bob Mottram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 28/01/2008, Ben Goertzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > When your computer can write and debug > > > software faster and more accurately than you can, then you should worry. > > > > A tool that could generate computer code from formal specifications > > would be a wonderful thing, but not an autonomous intelligence. > > > > A program that creates its own questions based on its own goals, or > > creates its own program specifications based on its own goals, is > > a quite different thing from a tool. > > > Having written a lot of computer programs, as I suspect many on this > list have, I suspect that fully automatic programming is going to > require the same kind of commonsense reasoning as human have. When > I'm writing a program I may draw upon diverse ideas derived from what > might be called "common knowledge" - something which computers > presently don't have. The alternative is genetic programing, which is > more of a sampled search through the space of all programs, but I > rather doubt that this is what's going on in my mind for the most > part. >
What kind of processes would you expect to underly the brains ability to reorganise itself during neural plasticity? http://cogprints.org/2255/0/buss.htm These sorts of changes we would generally expect the need of a programmer to acheive in a computer system. Common sense programming seems to be far too high level for this, so what sort would you expect it to be? 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=90496970-15b353
