On 09/27/2014 10:17 PM, Piaget Modeler via AGI wrote:
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But why would one goal get a higher priority than another, aside from
inheriting its priority from a basic need?
Perhaps I lack imagination.
Your thoughts?
~PM
Priority is part of a bigger picture. Priority can be “gen'd” from many
sources. Is there a way to manage the barrage of priority claims? What
priority will rise to the top and become the one we react to in the next
moment?
We want to discern between priorities because it is likely that a few
will indeed be “better,” that is, produce better outcomes in the future.
Indeed, this is a hard problem, and possibly resource intensive. For us
who ponder "how intelligent" a machine can be, it's part of the challenge.
The original question relates to how goals get priority levels. My
description of how I think this can work follows:
In my “master plan” for an intelligent unit, priority is based on the
“recipe” that is currently being cooked. Recipes have steps, and the
“next step” is determined by what the recipe prescribes. This sounds too
simple to be useful, but there is a bigger picture that I hope will
explain why this “source” of priority can be effective.
As programmers, we know that things are accomplished by a sequence of
steps. Even in object programming, the methods are steps, that is,
sequential programming. If I start down a sequence of steps, then it
only makes sense that I follow through the routine. I started the
sequence because I want the affect that those steps will generate. Can
we agree at this point that if we are in a sequence, then the next step
is the priority?
Then, our “intelligence task” is to determine the sequence that we
should be executing at the moment. As hinted above, we have reasons for
starting a sequence and it is that set of reasons that form a selection
criteria. “Reasons” are built up in layers – things build upon related
concepts. As Jim Bromer has suggested, concepts can quickly become
complex and confusing. My plan attempts to control this complexity by
not attempting “logical gymnastics” with all these concepts. Instead of
attempting to be a black belt in logic, I want to find other ways to
select. Not so far fetched given that children acquire methods before
they have well developed logical grasp on the concepts of life.
My approach is to look at recipes as being a component of a more
encompassing object, the opportunity. Opportunity is much more that just
a recipe, it also factors in risk, cost, skills, viability and elements
of the surroundings.
To simplify where I'm going with this, our intelligence task is one of
acquiring and comparing opportunity. Comparing is where we build the
basis for selecting the better opportunity for the moment.
Based on this strategy, I see “priority” as determined by the working
set of opportunity that the unit has adopted, or been given, or
otherwise acquired. Select the opportunity that fits the moment, work
the recipe of that opportunity and you are doing “high priority,” as far
as your unit is concerned.
It may seem that I've only shifted the task of selection of priority
from “the goal” to “the opportunity,” but as one attempts to determine
why his goal is a goal, and what value it has, he or she will soon be
faced with an “opportunity” like scenario. Just skip the goal thing and
go directly to opportunity, and allow that to be your basic currency.
Lots of details left out (long enough post.) I believe there is an
architecture here. Nearly all aspects of the system can be implemented
as “opportunity.” Building everything out of opportunity is an
interesting “bootstrapping” exercise. Result is a simple “machine.”
Stan
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