All right, I will put in my 2 cents. "Things computers can do" is nothing without somebody with ideas programming them!
argument follows.... On 10/9/13, Bob Mottram <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2013-10-09 14:48, Matt Mahoney wrote: >> https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1ZaTlA92vUwCzKFXh_wOnFAVrGLGgzUyDj3wNfUS-PWI > > I think Ai is "unsolved" because it's badly framed. So a lot of it > seems oriented around mid 20th century behaviorism or rational utility > maximising agents. Those things may be interesting, but they're > off-base if you want to produce something similar to human intelligence. > > From a mid 20th century perspective much of human behavior seems > baffling and hopelessly irrational. To produce a human-like cognitive > system I think it needs to include more social and narrative elements, > such as the maintenance of a social graph (Dunbar, etc) and a language > system capable of supporting internal dialogues and imaginative > narrative reconstructions - what I call "circumstance based reasoning". > Instead of trying to maximize utility probably what people are mostly > doing is trying to maximize the consistency or desirability of their > autobiographical narrative relative to other known historical or > fictional accounts, or simply to live according to some particular > principle or aesthetic (both of which also have a historical basis to > them). Outside of being embedded in a multi-agent system which has a > history it's difficult for that sort of cognitive system to appear. > > > ------------------------------------------- > AGI > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/11943661-d9279dae > Modify Your Subscription: > https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > ------------------------------------------- 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
