> However, I still believe that function needs to be learned or discovered, > rather than programmed. >
I think that's too crude of a dichotomy.... Every digital AGI is program, and an analog AGI would be wired together by humans.... So there will always be some "programming" for any engineered intelligence. I'm unclear where you are trying to draw the line between "programming the ability to learn X" versus "programming a bias regarding how to do X", since every finite-resources learning algorithm has some intrinsic biases.... But I suspect that if you did articulate where you are trying to draw that line, I would want to draw it somewhere else ;) > > >> A human mind is not a tabula rasa, and nor need an AGI mind be... >> > > OK, so here is the statement modifies as per our last go-round: > > "any prospective AGI platform absolutely **MUST** be capable of *learning > at biologically comparable speeds to* perform substantially all of the > high-level cognitive information processing functions that have been > observed in human mind/brains *without carefully ignoring functions that > appear incompatible with the platform, like spontaneously discovering the > nature of the world in which they 'live'.*" > > Is this OK yet? > > While I agree that learning is critical to AGI, I don't agree that cognitive functions must necessarily be learned without benefit of pre-programmed capabilities or predispositions.... I don't think the brain carries out this sort of tabula rasa learning either... My view would be better summarized as something like "any prospective AGI platform absolutely **MUST** be capable of acquiring (via learning, combined potentially with in-built capabilities or biases)* at biologically comparable speeds the capability to* perform substantially all of the high-level cognitive information processing functions that have been observed in human mind/brains *"* I have deleted "*without carefully ignoring functions that appear incompatible with the platform, like spontaneously discovering the nature of the world in which they 'live'.*"" as that is redundant with the prior portion of the summary... -- Ben G ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
