On Thursday, October 16, 2014, Matt Mahoney via AGI <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 7:15 PM, Ben Goertzel <[email protected] > <javascript:;>> wrote: > > Creation of human-level AGI will be the biggest achievement in the > history > > of humanity... > > I agree absolutely. > > > The fact that it's taking groups of smart people decades to achieve, > isn't > > terribly surprising, is it? > > I would be surprised if a small group succeeded in beating Google and > Facebook to AGI. Would you be surprised if a ragtag group of OSS developers made a better OS than Microsoft, IBM or Apple -- one used to power 97% or so of the Internet ? Sounds unlikely perhaps, but it's our current reality ... ;) > They are pouring billions of dollars into AI research > and making progress. But it is really a global effort. Every time you > tag a photo, you are helping to build a training data set of a > trillion name-face pairs. Every time you post a comment somewhere, you > are helping to build a public model of your mind. > > Absolutely ... > I think our main point of disagreement is what we consider to be AGI. > To me it is a solution to the problem of having to work for an income. > It requires machines to be able to do everything that humans can do, > but doesn't require them to pretend to be human. > > I don't think an AGI has to pretend to be human ... > -- > -- Matt Mahoney, [email protected] <javascript:;> > > > ------------------------------------------- > AGI > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/212726-deec6279 > Modify Your Subscription: > https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > -- Ben Goertzel, PhD http://goertzel.org "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." -- George Bernard Shaw ------------------------------------------- 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
