Mike Tintner wrote: "...how would you design a play machine - a machine
that can play around as a child does?"
I wouldn't. IMHO that's just another waste of time and effort (unless it's
being done purely for research purposes). It's a diversion of intellectual
and financial resources that those serious about building an AGI any time
in this century cannot afford. I firmly believe if we had not set
ourselves the goal of developing human-style intelligence (embodied or not)
fifty years ago, we would already have a working, non-embodied AGI.
Turing was wrong (or at least he was wrongly interpreted). Those who
extended his imitation test to humanoid, embodied AI were even more wrong.
We *do not need embodiment* to be able to build a powerful AGI that can
be of immense utility to humanity while also surpassing human intelligence
in many ways. To be sure, we want that AGI to be empathetic with human
intelligence, but we do not need to make it equivalent (i.e., "just like
us").
I don't want to give the impression that a non-Turing intelligence will be
easy to design and build. It will probably require at least another twenty
years of "two steps forward, one step back" effort. So, if we are going to
develop a non-human-like, non-embodied AGI within the first quarter of this
century, we are going to have to "just say no" to Turing and start to use
human intelligence as an inspiration, not a destination.
Cheers,
Brad
Mike Tintner wrote:
Just a v. rough, first thought. An essential requirement of an AGI is
surely that it must be able to play - so how would you design a play
machine - a machine that can play around as a child does?
You can rewrite the brief as you choose, but my first thoughts are - it
should be able to play with
a) bricks
b)plasticine
c) handkerchiefs/ shawls
d) toys [whose function it doesn't know]
and
e) draw.
Something that should be soon obvious is that a robot will be vastly
more flexible than a computer, but if you want to do it all on computer,
fine.
How will it play - manipulate things every which way?
What will be the criteria of learning - of having done something
interesting?
How do infants, IOW, play?
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