On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 2:16 PM Matt Mahoney <[email protected]> wrote: > > I suppose exploring random topics in math could theoretically lead to > advances in AGI with nonzero probability. I'm betting that it won't. You will > need a stronger argument to change my mind. > > AGI is an engineering problem.
Sure, and making a jet airplane is an engineering problem, but math theories of stuff like fluid mechanics and electricity/magnetism are pretty useful in designing the circuitry and the wings and the jets ;) As for "random topics in math", my own math explorations regarding AGI are not so random and are guided specifically by questions that have come up in OpenCog experimentation .... YKY's explorations interested me for reasons perhaps different than his reasons for pursuing them -- I'm interested in mappings btw cog. sci. and quantum mechanics, partly because they might have clues for funky new sorts of quantum computing algos... ;) ben ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T54594b98b5b98f83-M316021dc3948b5e48f2185ca Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
