*** As for Ben, he has never faced the problem of AGI in his life. Ask him what ideas he has for AGI take-off/creativity ***
Mike, as you know I wrote a book on the nature of creativity in 1997 (From Complexity to Creativity) ... You unfortunately lack the scientific background to read it carefully.... And my views on AGI have been written down extensively, albeit not in sufficiently simplified language for you to understand.... ( I'm working to remedy that, with a popular-audience book on AGI in the works...) The kind of argument you are trying to make was made far more ably by George kampis in his mid-1990s book "self-modifying systems ..." , and I counter-argued his points extensively in my own book Far from new and radical, the view you're presenting is very familiar to me (and everyone else in the AGI field), we just don't agree with it Still, though you are (among other things) an under-educated, obnoxious mailing-list troll, the points you raise have been raised often enough by others with more incisive minds and better educations than you, that I feel moved to write a somewhat thorough response... The question of creativity and "radical novelty" is an interesting one that I've often discussed with others F2F... I just wrote a blog post http://multiverseaccordingtoben.blogspot.com/2012/10/can-computers-be-creative.html that addresses these issues. I preferred to write a blog post than a long email, as emails have more of a feeling of vanishing into the ether, whereas blog posts feel more persistent.. ben ------------------------------------------- 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
