Rob, Congrats! You are one of two people ever claimed to actually 'get it'. :-)
If only you could hear my actual/intended voice in the writing and compare it with the voice you report hearing! The perils of the medium. The unique sensitivities of the each reader, as their buttons are pressed. Especially if what is expressed possibly dashes personal hopes on the rocks of something surprising and new. There's no lambasting intended, although I can see how a reader could feel lambasted. BTW I never said anything about physics being 'shunned', nor did I mean it that way. It's all a big accident chosen by nobody but human dynamics around the time computers were invented, along with chip technology limits and neuroscience knowledge limits over the decades. It's quite understandable. There's no derision intended. I experience frustration at something right in front of everyone and never seen. It can come through. As to the age thing ... nice one. :-) What do we do about it? Well guess what? I'm costing it up as we speak. It's doable. I've done conceptual design for the chips. It accounts for neurogenesis, migration, process expression and connection and then tuning ... all autonomously. Bad news? The necessary chip foundry doesn't exist. I'm detailing the plan for the first pass of the project designed to begin the long hard journey of assembling a consortium to carry it out. It's a greenfield plan where we build all the facilities from scratch. I hope we can make it cheaper. I have to start somewhere. The killer? The new bespoke 3D chip prototyping/low volume production foundry costing $1billion. ...wait for it ... 15 years of the project. At the end of it you have proved AGI in a dog-sized/hobbit-sized robot with the intelligence of a bee. One robot with the new chip-brain (the test subject) faces off against another with an equivalent FPGA brain that lacks the physics (the control). It has the on-chip equivalent 500,000 neurons and their glia (yes, the physics of the astrocyte membrane has a role) as a brain. This testing is done in a new kind of testing facility that also has to be built from scratch, along with the testing oversight group. So robot building+ chip fabrication + testing facility have to operate as a single unit for the best part of a decade. RIP Turing test. The robots prove it themselves. Big kahunas needed to get the big prize. The real work in the foundry? Endless tedious prototyping, testing. Repeat. Developing ways to develop ways to build chips and then literally evolve their functionality in a robot. Agonising. Overall: 3 stages. I have already done stage 1 and the early parts of stage 2. That took 15 years. The balance of stage 2, and stage 3 are the 'big-science'. So yeah. We can do this. It's probably ($human brain project + $human genome). It's a 'moon-shot'. It's a science project with spin-offs (stages 2 and 3) that will be separately commercial, not a commerce project. At the end, however, it will, however, establish the first commerce landscape for real AGI with tech and processes to licence out. In this plan we have a route to real AGI done with the proper science of AGI, with empirical teeth, that will determine empirically what can and cannot be done with computers. Something that has to be at least done once, regardless of the truth status of the 'substrate independence hypothesis'. I suspect that the SIH is trivially true. That is, yes, you can do AGI with computers, but in order to do it you'd have to program all knowledge into it, hence it's practically useless because by the time you could do it you wouldn't need to because you'd already 'know everything'. Something along those lines. In a world where you have to learn the unknown by autonomously experiencing the reality of the unknown, you have to build the chips that do what the brain does, with all the absolutely necessary physics the brain uses, whatever that is. Ironic, but all that happens is that the science of gets normallised. That irony, I hoped, was the aura of my little bit of 'black-mirror' comedy. That, imho, is what the route to real AGI looks like. Really really hard. But it has teeth. At some point I'll emerge with the finished REV 0 plan and be asking for names to begin the process of assembling the bevy of $ and enthusiasm. An international consortium can do it. Sadly, I have to bow out. I've had to accept this is way bigger than little me. I may not live to see the end of it. Somebody tell Nole Muks of the story, after his tears dry, there's a fully costed intrinsically safe AGI plan & solution available soon. The AGI safety panic industry is not going to be happy with this. Terrible shame. :-) Thanks for persisting with this and asking the right question. Cheers, Colin On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 5:15 PM Nanograte Knowledge Technologies via AGI < [email protected]> wrote: > Colin > > I understand your point. It is clear. It is a valid point. However, I find > it incredulous how you seem to be so utterly convinced that the physics was > shunned by the industry. My evidence suggests you are partially informed. > > Bearing in mind, I'm an independent researcher. Self funded, no strings > attached, unbeholden. My research leads me where it does, and I follow that > trail. Before any of my work was finalized, I scanned across emerging > research in quantum physics and neuroscience, in order to test for future > feasibility. I spent time with the mind of Brian Greene, and other > prominent physicists. > > By no means did I ever envision myself to be involved with actually > developing such a brain chip. The reason for this was that it seemed > apparent that the world would do so, and then what would be lacking would > be the scientific component of firmware, quantum-compliant logic. That is > the area I focused my research on. My stuff would be integrated with such a > chip, become it, and more. > > As far back as 2014, I proposed on YouTube the notion of life on a chip. > Even before that, the notion (as a potential project) was discussed with a > prominent engineering firm. I'm telling you this, to help you understand > that your perspective, though valid and duly respected, is not totally > reliable. > > Surely, as a neuro-scientist you are familiar with the empirical research > into em fields and the physics of the human brain? I accessed such research > as part of the body of knowledge I had to contend with. All I've been > thinking about for the past, 2 years is the activation of em fields as > information carriers of the logic that was being developed. For that > reason, I still follow emerging developments of a prominent chip > manufacturer in China and infer chip development on the hand of emerging > robots from Japan. It's a never ending part of R&D. So many aspects one has > to always bear in mind and integrate into a feasibility model. > > As a pragmatist, I'd like to encourage you to get your head out of your > ass and to get of your purist, high horse. Your upset with industry and > those anogramed parties on the list is a noisy distraction from the real > work that lies ahead. Do the work yourself then, if you deem it seriously > neglected. You do not need funding to propose testable designs. You need > theoretical research that would be feasible in empirical studies. Design > the experiment. > > Maybe the world is simply not ready for you yet. Maybe, for now, the > majority of the industry is happy to fail, rinse, repeat in an overwhelming > possibility of AI applications. It's emergence at work. In all probability, > structural functionality would eventually follow. We cannot control that > process of technological evolution. > > Instead, you could be developing the next 40 years of science, which Brian > Greene, in 1999, stated still had to be developed. Twenty years later, > where is the development? It's there, but as you correctly pointed out, not > mainstreamed. I cannot do that kind of development myself. I'm not smart > enough and educated in that field. It seems though, you cannot develop my > component of research either. That is my passion and my gift. Tapestries > are not weaved by a single strand. How do we connect these dots into a > reality you see needs to be made practical? Would you be the one to do so? > > So, instead of lamblasting everyone around you for their alleged lack of > enlightenment, maybe it is upon you to lead the way? If not, you are > nothing but a noisy critic and a cynic, which is not such a bad role to > play either. The world need free thinkers with critical abilities. > > Still, that would be a great shame. From what I've seen, once you drop > your superior attitude, the sense you talk makes for incredible reading. > There's so much to learn from your clear perspective. Now we need to see > more from you, the physics thereof. > > In summary. I get it! I get it! Now what are we going to do about it? > > PS: If age was a qualifier of superiority, the Dinosaurs would've been > developing AGI today. > > Rob > ------------------------------ > *From:* Colin Hales via AGI <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Monday, 20 August 2018 2:39 AM > *To:* AGI > *Subject:* Re: [agi] Knock. Knock. Knock. Knock. Knock. > > Rob, > As someone 62 years old and had an entire career in industrial > automation, that has worked full time on AGI via neuroscience, since > 2003, most of it in academia, I disagree that I have missed anything. I > have sailed the ocean of literature into all its corners. > > This is so frustrating. I keep saying it, but the actual topic keeps > getting missed. > > Let's drop the names. AI, AGI, whatever. Let's get back to basics. Let's > see if I can spell it out in a way that works. > > The _science_ involved in this is a science of natural general > intelligence. When you do science, part of the process involves the > creation of an artificial version of the natural original. This, along with > the study of the physical nature itself, forms the ' empirical science' > part. > > The other half of the science is called 'theoretical science'. In this, > abstract formalisms describe the nature. You can explore these formalisms > by computer and get them to reveal things and predict things about how the > nature appears when you look. > > For example, the standard model of particle physics ... You can compute > that model and predict a Higgs boson. That's the theoretical half. You can > build a super collider and make Higgs bosons. That's the empirical science. > > Ok? > > This is universal. It applies to everything I science without exception. > > Except for natural general intelligence. > > Here, in the science, and only here, the two have been confused. There's a > hypothesis that's used (in the comedy) called the 'substrate independence > hypothesis'. Call it SIH. > > Given enough resources I could put the brain's signalling physics itself > (the electromagnetism that does the signalling, in the exact same physical > form it has in a brain. There's no abstract model of the brain. The result > is not a computer. There's a truckload of 'computation' in the exact same > form it has in the brain. There's no _computer_. I put these chips in a > robot suit. In front of me I claim I have an 'artificial general > intelligence'. Call it robot A. This fits the behaviour that everywhere > else gets called the empirical science. This time, it's the empirical > science of artificial general intelligence. > > Now we switch to the theoretical part. I do an abstract model of the same > brain. I put the physics of a computer on the chips instead. I code up the > abstract model and run it on the computer. Everywhere else in science, this > is part of theoretical science. I put that computer inside the same robot > suit. Call it robot B. In front of me, what have I got? Everywhere in the > science conducted to date, robot B gets called 'artificial general > intelligence'. Is it really an artificial version of the natural original? > > So we now have 2 physically identical robot bodies in all respects except > for their brains. Brain A has natural brain signalling physics on the > chips. Brain B had the physics of a computer on the chips. Utterly > different physics. > > Q.Which is actually functionally equivalent to the 'natural general > intelligence'? > > A. Formally, scientifically, Nobody knows. You. Me. Nobody. > > Everybody assumes the SIH true and does Robot B. Fails. And then does it > again. Rinse. Repeat. Fail. For 65 years this goes on. Wars rage on twitter > about the equivalence as we speak. The character Ragy Scarum, for example, > did it again during this email thread. Know who it is? 😁 > > Fact. > Nobody ever does Robot A to do the real empiricism done everywhere else, > where robot A _and_ robot B would be built and compared/contrasted .... > This would be the (heretical, in the comedy) real empirical test of the > SIH. Done without assuming it's truth or falsehood, but by measurement. > > We are talking about a unique, singular deformed science. > > I am not claiming the SIH true or false. I am claiming _nobody_ knows and > showing what the science that empirically tests it looks like. > > Under exactly what conditions is the SIH true? What exactly goes missing > if the SIH is false? > > You do not know. I do not know. Nobody knows, because the real science of > it never gets done. There is not even a sign, anywhere in the literature, > of a plan for robot A, the empirical science of an artificial version of > natural general intelligence. > > So when I say AI or AGI hasn't started yet, that's exactly what I am > saying, practically. > > This is about a deeply structurally deformed science supported by a > community unaware of it. > > In order that the science go on as it is, believing robot A and robot B > are identities to the extent of never doing robot B, is to participate in > the world's first science that was born deformed and generationally trained > to maintain it. > > That's what the 'centuries old ....' reference is about in the comedy. > > If you turned up with a 'Higgs bosons don't have to be created to prove > they exist' hypothesis and asked to cancel the construction of the Large > Hadron Collider, you'd be laughed out of town by the physicists. > > Yet for the biggest boson in the history of all bosons .... The EM field > system of the brain that creates all the brain's signalling and adaptation, > that's exactly what has happened. Nobody ever builds that boson. Instead > the entire physics of the brain is simply thrown out, wholesale. Ironic, as > well as being extremely naive, for the 'most complex single object in > science'. > > The only difference in the practice that accounts for it is the 3 > generations+ of workers untrained in real empirical science. This is a > cultural problem. > > Can you see this? > > Before you answer, remember, I am not asking you to believe anything about > what computers can or cannot do. You can wander off and use computers and > do miracles. All irelevant to this discussion. I don't care. I care about > the science. I am talking about a deformed science and exactly what it > looks like and exactly what it would look like if it was normalised to look > like science does everywhere else. > > This is not an opinion. You can measure the deformation in the science. > It's an empirical fact of the science. > > But the reverse .... The proof of SIH justifying the lack of empirical > science testing the SIH's possible falsehood, does not exist! > > This singularly deformed science, presented as a joke, is the message of > the comedy. > > If only it was as funny in reality. The entire future, and all $ and > effort ... As a bet placed on an assumption of SIH truth that is never > questioned, and for which there's a perfectly servicable, centuries old > science practice ideally suited to sorting it out, and it gets ignored in > this one and only place in science. > > Have I made my point? > > Colin > > On Mon., 20 Aug. 2018, 8:27 am Nanograte Knowledge Technologies via AGI, < > [email protected]> wrote: > > Colin > > I accept your empassioned argument. I call what I do AGI, for the simple > reason that it encodes tacit and explicit knowledge into systems models, > which are transferable onto a computational platform. Now, that is not AGI > yet, but to my understanding it resembles one of the critical building > blocks that would help enable eventual AGI. What I do, pertains to AGI. > However, about a year ago I posted a sound theoretical and semantic > argument on this group why the term AGI was superfluous to the context of > machine intelligence. As is typical, no one bothered commenting on it. Yet, > the term AGI stuck, so we are being forced to use it. > > In my view, AI is AI, at different levels of operation and maturity. > Still, let's go with the flow and keep it in context of a version of AGI, > shall we? This methodology I developed then - at that point - resembled a > KM component, having features for 1-step mutation, diversification, and > recombination. Quantum based in meta design and evolutionary in operation. > Here, I mean Darwinian in evolution as a complex-adaptive system, not some > other mantra. > > The result constitutes a scientific method within a holistic, systems > framework to enable systems-based communication. It has its own language > and rules. A full-blown ontology. Not a computer language, but a symbolic > way to express itself in, sufficiently effective to achieve the > aforementioned complex-adaptive characteristics. Again, that does not > constitute AGI. Merely some critical building blocks towards AGI. > > Still, if we could manage to place a dynamically-driven knowledge engine > on a computational platform, and leave it be in a location where natural > stimuli may, or may not affect its behavioral responses, and it actually > auto-responded to adapt to these stimuli, and showed assimilation of these > environmental changes to a degree that same stimuli were seemingly adapted > to in learning, we may be ready to start thinking about such a platform as > edging towards AGI functionality. > > Now, again, I'm not going to call that AGI, but would be bold enough to > point out that the resultant machine would offer up critical building > blocks towards achieving AGI functionality. > > Suppose then, we could empirically translate all knowledge this machine > encountered and encoded in such a standardized language, and integrated it > with the knowledge base of this machine? When we saw this knowledge being > synthesized, aged, recombined into new contexts, in a traceable manner, > would we then concede the makings of AGI? > > Furthermore, when we observed this knowledge in states of regression, new > insights extracted from the source, and then recombined as new knowledge to > be synthesized with predictive contexts, would we concede AGI > functionality? When such discoveries were taught to source, via autonomous > updates, and so on progressively, would we reconsider AGI functionality? > > I think Turing had great vision, but nonetheless vision limited by the > next step of foreseeable computer engineering - a psycho-social need for > humans to relate to machines. AGI should not be tested for by how it mimics > humans. It's way beyond the performance of average human beings. It should > be tested by how far it can autonomously extend human-centric > functionality, with self-motivated intent. To do so, would mean to know > humankind. > > AGI then? Simplistically speaking, I envision a machine with the ability > to autonomously spot an environmental situation, and motivating itself > under its own power to successfully act upon that environmental factor, to > would so with increasing success. I may envision other machines too, even > sub-species of machines. > > But this one, empirically, it must be hard coded in its value set (it's > social conscience if you will) to do good to mankind, meaning to apply its > resources and comprehension to know what constitutes good to mankind and > its environment, and have the knowhow to autonomously apply effective > complexity to achieve the specific level of eco-systemic good in that > particular context. To do so, off course it would have to ensure its own > survival and the survival of any goal-centric enabled network of autonomous > machines. Then, would we call that AGI? > > Assuming the phletora of sensors available to enable humano-robotic > features such as hearing, vision, speech, and touch, I would be bold enough > to say that in such a machine, emotion (as feedback-driven motivational > competency), would become possible. > > I can say this with certainty, because these systems models have already > been completed and tried and tested. The framework exists. The method > exists. Many, other modular components exist. My next job would be to > assemble such a machine and achieve that which you so candidly assert no > possibility of exists. > > I would spend the rest of my life doing so, which is rather short in terms > of scientific development. However, you have no right to discount the > 23-odd years I've spent on this journey with a solid vision guiding me. > > I do not blame you for your perspective, but based on what I've > experienced during practical tests of these models, and subsequently > submitted as well-disguised field research to the IEEE for review, and > more, you are simply not properly informed yet. Not all knowledge is > published or paraded plainly, meaning we can only see as far as our eyes > can reach. In my case, I only showed that, which I chose to show, for my > research reasons. > > As a scientist dealing in the realm of possibility let me challenge you > then with your own words. What if, this was meta AGI? What if... > > Rob > > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Colin Hales via AGI <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Sunday, 19 August 2018 11:06 PM > *To:* AGI > *Subject:* Re: [agi] Knock. Knock. Knock. Knock. Knock. > > > > On Sun., 19 Aug. 2018, 6:11 pm Nanograte Knowledge Technologies via AGI, < > [email protected]> wrote: > > Colin > > You're right, off course. My point is; if AGI would not deal with this > level of abstract, human communication of temporal, emotive states, how > would it ever be taken seriously to solve highly-abstract problems? Poets > do indeed have their say. 😉 > > Next year, I hope to be living in Panama. From a stronger base, I'm quite > certain I would then be able to start addressing the big issues in life in > terms of a pragmatic AGI application. > > For example, using AGI-tech to help understand and mitigate the unfolding, > Fukushima nuclear disaster, which is affecting the globe. There are > life-existential problems to come to grips with and find resolutions for > regarding; health, safety, food and water security, and environmental > contamination. There's more than enough work for all of us interested in > the field and no time to waste. Not all of us would be able to run away to > Mars. > > I think that is primarily where AGI development should be heading in. > > Rob > > > Rob, > There are eras in science history where an entire thread of a particular > science works diligently and thoroughly for a very long time, and then > finds itself facing a shift that renders the entire era irrelevant or > misguided. > > AGI is one of those eras. > > There are hundreds of folk like yourself, that follow ideas. It's all > great stuff and you never know what will result. > > In what you just said about your Panama plan and environmental work, you > are presupposing the very things my little story questions. > > You presuppose that AGI science has actually started. > > For the reasons in the story (yes, it's all there!) AGI hasn't started > yet. Instead, vast cliques of automation have been labelled AI and AGI and > GAI and sometimes ASI. > > All valuable work. But none of it is founded on a properly formed science, > with a real empirical basis. > > That's the problem. Everyone assumes that to pick up a computer leads, > potentially, to Artificial General Intelligence. A culture born in the > 'rapture' of the story. > > I severely challenge that presuposition in the comedy and in my book. > > Dressing a computer-based brain in a robot suit does not do empirical AGI. > It is an elaborate form of theoretical neuroscience. > > All these issues are in the comedy. > > I am trying to get everyone to realise it. Real AGI science will only ever > start when brain physics is put on the chips. It's big science, chip > foundry work, and hasn't ever even been thought about until now, let alone > started. > > So when you specify that you're heading off to do the things you say, and > I'm sure you'll do good work, I'm making a case that you shouldn't be > calling it AGI. > > And I don't just single out you. You're in great company. I mean > everybody. The whole thing. Since 1956. > > I am trying every means at my disposal to get this message out. > > Nobody is working on AI. Nobody is working on AGI. Everybody is working on > automation using theoretical models of the brain and calling it an > artificial version of intelligence. When it's not. > > This mistake has only ever happened in this one place. And it could only > ever happen at the birth of computers. And it did. > > Turning this around and correcting the science is what the story is about. > > At these points in science history, those that turn up with the correction > to practice don't usually have a good time. I can confirm that! It's no fun > at all. Also, in these periods of shift, non-standard forms of > communication can help dislodge the glasses of the received view. > > And occasionally you get to send the whole thing up. > > I hope your adventures are rewarding and impactful, but just imagine if > you're mistaken in calling it AGI. 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