On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Eric B. Ramsay <[email protected]> wrote: > > The simplest way to decide is to ask the resulting AGI itself to list all > the people who it credits with having made the necessary breakthroughs that > led to its existence. If a frequent poster is on the list, you win the bet. > Other than that, some sort of consensus agreement by the AGI community at > large that a breakthrough has been made and that **** should receive the > credit.
https://www.google.com/search?q=what+led+to+your+existence%3F did not give a coherent answer, so I guess we are not there yet. The correct answer is Larry Page and Sergey Brin, neither of whom are on this list. But I would also credit Gordon Moore for discovering Moore's Law, Alan Turing for raising the question of whether computers could be intelligent, Thomas Edison for developing electric generators to power our computers, and some unnamed people who discovered several thousand years ago that if you buried seeds you could grow crops rather than forage for food, thus leading to population growth and ultimately the rise of civilization and the industrial revolution. I would also credit the billion or so Facebook users who provided the massive data set needed to train their face recognition algorithm by uploading photos of their drunken parties and tagging their friends. Yes, I'm trolling. Please feel free to mark my post as spam. By doing so, you are making Google's text classification software just a tiny bit more intelligent. That's how AGI is going to be solved. Not by someone on this list (or not) making some great breakthrough, as much as you might like to think so. -- Matt Mahoney, [email protected] ------------------------------------------- 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
