I just realised that that is a beautiful phrase - and may help bring home the distinction between narrow AI and AGI - wh. still hasn't been grasped.
Narrow AI is "travelling with foresight" - your computer program or robot doesn't take any journey without having a complete route-map and step-by-step itinerary beforehand. It doesn't go anywhere without already knowing how to get there. (And that includes SLAM robots - they know how to find out how to get there - it's more sophisticated, but it's the same thing). A real AGI "travels blind" - no route map, no itinerary, just a vague idea of where it's going. ALL REAL WORLD NAVIGATION & REASONING is travelling blind. I can tell you "walk down this street that you've never been down before" (and that is different enough from any previous street you've been down to screw up any current robot immediately) - and you'll have no problem going down it. Ditto "walk through this unfamiliar room, house, shopping centre etc. etc". You can travel blind. Demonstrably, scientifically demonstrably, you travel blind. Now that's what we want from an AGI robot - that's our Woz kitchen robot - "travel blind into this kitchen [that will be significantly different from any you've ever been in before, with many surprise objects & obstacles] and make coffee." And the robot will have to make the coffee blind too - with strange machines and cups, as humans do. When you travel blind, Steve, Jim, you don't have a map or, therefore, the basis of any Cartesian grid - or the basis for any maths - the TSP doesn't apply. Maths only applies to travelling with foresight. Complexity only applies to that. Sets only apply to that. If we can get a robot that can just travel blind over *any* six metre terrain of rocks that is presented to it (a la Woz test) - a problem that is being addressed - we'll have the beginnings of a real AGI. That is a problem that is worth addressing and that can clearly be solved. But it can't be solved with any existing methodology, all of which only apply to travelling wth foresight. ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-c97d2393 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-2484a968 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
