No, no! It came out exactly the opposite of what I was trying to say, sorry. I was trying to convey the notion that something is missing from today's machines, and is stopping them from doing what people do. It's the ability to deal with the accumulation of entropy.
Entropy comes with information. More and more information also brings more and more entropy into the system. But entropy = uncertainty, so the excess entropy has to be removed. Removing entropy causes information to self-organize and create the structures or invariant representations we use to think and communicate. Our brains are very good at removing entropy. But consider a computer. As developers write more and more code into a computer, more and more entropy accumulates in it. If you are a developer you know what refactoring is. Refactoring is the process of removing entropy from code. Developers say "improving the understandability", which means removing uncertainty, that is, entropy. Google needs an entropy processor. Google patents on entropy processors are only for compression of video signals, not general purpose enough for general information. You can see my paper in Complexity 17(2): 19–38 for the basics, or my website <http://www.scicontrols.com/> for updates. Sergio From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 4:17 PM To: AGI Subject: RE: [agi] Hugo de Garis on the Singhilarity Institute and the hopelessness of Friendly AI ... I see humans themselves as machines of a sort, and so I don't see a fundamental distinction between what a person can do and what a machine can do. But you are entitled to your beliefs, even though I'm unconvinced I should agree. _____ On Aug 23, 2012 3:57 PM, Sergio Pissanetzky <[email protected]> wrote: That promise has been around for a very, very long time. I don't believe it can be done with machines alone, the humans will have to remain in the loop. Sergio From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 3:31 PM To: AGI Subject: RE: [agi] Hugo de Garis on the Singhilarity Institute and the hopelessness of Friendly AI ... Not yet. But once we develop individual agents capable of it, I'm sure Google (or whoever is at the forefront then) will offer some sort of "service" that extends that level of intelligence to internet users. _____ On Aug 23, 2012 3:07 PM, Sergio Pissanetzky <[email protected]> wrote: Can Google learn how to play chess? Sergio From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 2:23 PM To: AGI Subject: Re: [agi] Hugo de Garis on the Singhilarity Institute and the hopelessness of Friendly AI ... Google is already adaptive. There is no way they could build a search engine that effective if it weren't. That approach to adaptivity can be applied on a much bigger scale, & will be. _____ On Aug 23, 2012 1:52 PM, Sergio Pissanetzky <[email protected]> wrote: Matt, Perhaps, but it would not be adaptive. Sergio From: Matt Mahoney <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [agi] Hugo de Garis on the Singhilarity Institute and the hopelessness of Friendly AI ... Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 13:55:56 -0400 The safest AI would be one that doesn't want anything. It would have no goals and no motivations, no reward button and no utility to optimize. It would be a vastly intelligent tool, a collection of all the world's knowledge and the computing power to do whatever you want with it. Rather than think for itself, it would be an extension of our own brains; a place to store your memories, communicate with anyone on the planet, and do the work that you would if you knew more and thought faster. It would be collectively owned, controlled by no single person but by everyone that uses it. It would be the AI that we are actually building; the one in front of you that has already surpassed human level intelligence in all but a few domains as it doubles in size every 1.5 years. 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