Todor,
> If a system can't deal even with baby's cognitive business and it requires > some kind of a snobbish "community" to agree that some work is a progress > or not, then it's apparently not a real progress. > > Artificial "consensus" is not a progress, it's politics, vanity fair, a > way to persuade other people who don't have a clue that this is something > "scientific" and that there's a progress - some numbers now are bigger than > they were. > Some experts think that Watson is major progress toward AGI. Ray Kurzweil, e.g., has said so... And certainly, many laypeople feel Watson is major progress toward AGI. Based on their own commonsense observation, not based on listening to any snobbish community of experts ;p ... Yet, you apparently don't agree that Watson constitutes major progress toward AGI, because Watson does not deal with a baby's cognitive business ;/ ... This is the point I was making. Based on your theoretical view, Watson seems not to be major incremental progress toward human-level AGI. Based on Ray Kurzweil's theoretical view, it does seem to be.... Many laypeople agree with him, many agree with you.... Even though most laypeople and you and Ray would all pretty much agree on what constitutes reaching the end goal of human-level AGI... -- 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
