On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 1:29 AM, Ben Goertzel <[email protected]> wrote:
> once that core version has been excitingly I can't believe this crap thread has been going on and on, the gist being why Hassabis is richer than Ben, well, because Hassabis is smarter, are we done Azn? I don't really buy the excitement around playing old Atari games, anyone who is into game research probably has seen that a lot of people are looking into generic approaches, Monte Carlo simulations come to mind, without any pretence or potential for AGI. Disclaimer: a synthetic mind operating in a multi-agent world with compounded uncertainties will probably use Monte Carlo tools, but I do expect the agents to be modelled explicitly. For the same reasons I am sceptical of any system that "knows what a cat looks like or what a cat is" since AGI boils down to, among other things, identifying and "reverse engineering" the agents in its envirionment, a process much more "magical" than image statistics. So we'll go with uncle Ben's theory that it is acqui-hire, I haven't seen or heard of any of the hires but, in my distorted little world, I can't think of anyone I would hire "automatically" over a generic IT/MSc/PhD guy or gal, it is more about sharing the vision and the roadmap rather than finding the AGI Einsteins and Anastasios ;) . Similarly I am deeply bamboozled by what mathematics will go into AGI, though I'd love to have the superpower to know which parts sum up to much more than those same parts. Finally Azn, you should ask for permission before publishing photos of mine http://iacknowledge.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/homeless-and-addiction.jpg AT ------------------------------------------- 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
