I agree that a physical robot is not necessary.... I've just come to believe that it will probably be the easiest approach if one wants to make a AGI with human-like general intelligence.... So much of human cognitive structure is heavily biased toward the sort of environments we exist in...
The thing with troll-bashing is that, even more than lizards, trolls have amazing powers of resiliency and regeneration !!! ;) ben On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 12:15 PM, Anastasios Tsiolakidis < [email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 5:56 PM, Ben Goertzel <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 5:31 AM, Mike Tintner >> <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> You & others think that an AGI computer is going to be wise about the >>> world by sifting through textual documents, and working out logically >>> whether “JOHN LOVES MARY”. >> >> You're battling a straw man here, hmm? I've already been explicit that >> I, personally, think it will be best to connect AGI systems to robots in >> order to achieve human-like general intelligence >> > > Wow, ferocious troll bashing, if it wasn't virtual I'd expect blood to > flow abundantly :) Anyways, I wanted to interject the obvious, that a robot > robot is not strictly necessary, the holy trinity of actuator, sensor and > energy is needed and can be (and should be methinks, as a multitude of > worthwhile experiments) provided by a trading robot, a web robot, a malware > robot and the list goes on. As always, I don't think that a singular robot > will have much to prove or improve (as opposed to a population of robots of > the same species), but OK, 1 robot is better than 0 robot. > > AT > *AGI* | Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/212726-deec6279> | > Modify<https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;>Your Subscription > <http://www.listbox.com> > -- Ben Goertzel, PhD http://goertzel.org "My humanity is a constant self-overcoming" -- Friedrich Nietzsche ------------------------------------------- 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
