Mike, At last, we agree on SOMETHING.
The world has FAR more than a million "monkeys" typing on their keyboards, to stumble onto inductive solutions to every problem. The challenge is NOT in finding the solutions to the world's problems. Instead, the challenge is in getting enough "traction" to even have a decision maker see and recognize a solution when one is proposed. What we REALLY need is an "AGI recognizer" that recognizes and catalogs prospective solutions from the Internet. This would do FAR more than any suggested AGI. Steve On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 5:37 AM, tintner michael <[email protected]>wrote: > It was ironic to see Steve mention the Forbin Project - I was thinking > about that recently - though there may also have been another movie at the > time with the same idea, if anyone can remember. > > The central idea of the AGI database genius - the computer that's going to > solve the problems of the world (for good or bad) - has probably shaped > AGI-ers' thinking more than any other. > > This wonderful little box is going to reason with extreme wisdom and come > up with brilliant solutions to everything. > > It's cobblers, total cobblers. No bodiless brain is going to come up with > a *single* new idea about anything - will even be able to work out how to > pick up toy bricks scattered on the floor - a really fundamental but fairly > simple problem for the infant brick-builder. And as for reasoning say about > the current US legislature impasse, say .... Total madness. Total > disconnect from the reality of how every field of knowledge grows.. > *AGI* | Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/10443978-6f4c28ac> | > Modify<https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;>Your Subscription > <http://www.listbox.com> > -- Full employment can be had with the stoke of a pen. Simply institute a six hour workday. That will easily create enough new jobs to bring back full employment. ------------------------------------------- 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
