On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 12:17 AM, Piaget Modeler via AGI <[email protected]> wrote:
> You create an AGI and endow it with an initial set of actions and needs. > > You prioritize the needs so that, for example, power is more important > than signal strength. Beyond that, you plug it in and let it run. > > The AGI begins to create goals and subgoals in order to satisfy its needs. > But how does it prioritize these goals and subgoals? We can distinguish > urgent from important goals by creating separate attributes for urgency > and priority. > But why would one goal get a higher priority than another, aside from > inheriting its priority from a basic need? > I think the terms that you are using to characterize the problem are over-generalized. I guess that when I complain about the necessity of examining questions like this with more detailed characterizations that people who understand what I am trying to say simply dismiss it as obvious. The AGI program would be designed to use (and to learn to use) actions under appropriate conditions and every programmer 'gets' what conditional actions are.. But perhaps the problem that I see is that we need to write these programs so that they will use broad generalizations (just as, according to my point of view, you wrote your message using broad generalizations.) So then the question of how the AGI program will differentiate the over-generalizations that it will tend to develop as it responds to various situations becomes the more essential question. So, for example, trying to get a better understanding of a particular situation and using that to further shape the characterization of that 'kind' of situation may become a prioritized goal just because it may be (or seem like) a necessary step that the program needs to take to better understand the situation. To add a little to this view of how an AGI might work notice that a situation may be characterized as being like different -kinds- of situations. This basic insight is something that I never read in other people's comments - Is that because it is so obvious? A situation is comprised of the 'components' of the situation and each of these may lead to the development of different kinds of situations which the particular situation may be likened to. And the situation may belong to other categories that are based on the projection of some other kind of idea onto it. Jim Bromer On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 12:17 AM, Piaget Modeler via AGI <[email protected]> wrote: > You create an AGI and endow it with an initial set of actions and needs. > > You prioritize the needs so that, for example, power is more important > than signal strength. Beyond that, you plug it in and let it run. > > The AGI begins to create goals and subgoals in order to satisfy its needs. > > But how does it prioritize these goals and subgoals? We can distinguish > urgent from important goals by creating separate attributes for urgency > and priority. > > 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 > *AGI* | Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/24379807-653794b5> | > Modify > <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> > Your Subscription <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
