Matt said: OK, how about this. Make up a list of 20 questions that you think an AGI ought to be able to answer. Next, mark the ones you think that Google will be able to answer. Then try it and see which ones it actually does. Then post the results of your experiment. -------------
That is relevant to my plan to create a simple AGI program that would be able to learn through text-based IO, but those are not examples of an AGI program that is able to learn. I acknowledge that this idea of pushing the goal posts further away for every advancement is nonsense, but my whole point is that I believe that it is feasible to write a -very simple- AGI program that is able to *genuinely learn* using a -simple- context sensitive language (with some typeIV moments). I just tried a few questions on Google and the best answers just about contained the words in my question exactly. That suggests that a context-free association phrase-to-phrase followed by a simple context-sensitive decomposition and a slight bias for more authoritative links really can do some of the legwork if the database is extensive enough. But that initial collection is not good enough for AGI. You would want an AGI program to examine the links to see if they are actually relevant and helpful. But I especially did not notice that Google was learning by having a conversation with me. That has always been one of the goals of AI from Turing on. I am not moving the goal posts, I seem to be explaining to people how the game is supposed to be played. The only real question is whether I will actually be able to compete in the field. But I am starting to think that competition in this game is 1% inspiration and 99% coding. Jim Bromer On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 2:29 PM, Matt Mahoney <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 1:22 PM, Jim Bromer <[email protected]> wrote: >> How many tablespoons in a cubic parsec is a quite amusing and >> unexpected question to have been solved. But wait a minute... Isn't >> that a calculator question? If you are trying to awe and scare me >> with this Halloween factoid, it is not going to work. > > OK, how about this. Make up a list of 20 questions that you think an > AGI ought to be able to answer. Next, mark the ones you think that > Google will be able to answer. Then try it and see which ones it > actually does. Then post the results of your experiment. > > -- > -- Matt Mahoney, [email protected] > > > ------------------------------------------- > AGI > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/24379807-f5817f28 > 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
