Re: [agi] The problem with AGI per Sloman

2010-06-25 Thread Mike Tintner
Colin, Thanks. Do you have access to any of the full articles? I can't make too informed comments about the quality of work of all the guys writing for this journal, but they're certainly raising v. important questions - and this journal appears to have been unjustly ignored by this group.

[agi] AGI Alert: DARPA wants quintillion-speed computers

2010-06-25 Thread The Wizard
http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/62808 http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/62808Self aware system software, including operating system, runtime system, I/O system, system management/administration, resource management and means of exposing resources, and external environments

[agi] Re: AGI Alert: DARPA wants quintillion-speed computers

2010-06-25 Thread The Wizard
Omnipresent High Performance Computing (OHPC) initiative) Seriously DARPA we already get it. ;-) On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 1:22 PM, The Wizard key.unive...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/62808 http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/62808Self aware system

Re: [agi] Questions for an AGI

2010-06-25 Thread Travis Lenting
I hope I don't miss represent him but I agree with Ben (at least my interpretation) when he said, We can ask it questions like, 'how can we make a better A(G)I that can serve us in more different ways without becoming dangerous'...It can help guide us along the path to a positive singularity. I'm

Re: [agi] Questions for an AGI

2010-06-25 Thread Ian Parker
One of the first things in AGI is to produce software which is self monitoring and which will correct itself when it is not working. For over a day now I have been unable to access Google Groups. The Internet access simply loops and does not get anywhere. If Google had any true AGI it would :- a)

Re: [agi] The problem with AGI per Sloman

2010-06-25 Thread rob levy
But there is some other kind of problem. We should have figured it out by now. I believe that there must be some fundamental computational problem that is standing as the major obstacle to contemporary AGI. Without solving that problem we are going to have to wade through years of

Re: [agi] The problem with AGI per Sloman

2010-06-25 Thread Jim Bromer
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 7:35 PM, rob levy r.p.l...@gmail.com wrote: I think there must be a computational or physical/computational problem we have yet to clearly identify that goes along with an objection certain philosophers like Chalmers have made about neural correlates, roughly: why should