> -----Original Message----- > From: Matt Mahoney via AGI [mailto:[email protected]] > > But I don't expect this argument to go any further. You are right that we > don't > have AGI after 60 years of trying. But we do have self driving cars, automatic > language translation, face recognition, and a lot of other things that used > to be > considered AI until we solved them. Maybe that is because we didn't worry > about whether the solutions were "conscious". >
A little bit of consciousness in Siri will go a long way. And the Google Chrome voice search is unbelievable. Have you tried it? You can essentially pick up any mobile device and voice questions to it like "Who won the world series in 1949?" or "What's the melting point of iron?" and it will speak the answer back to you conversationally realtime. Simply amazing. No consciousness there. I'm sure that we can extend our thinking relatively easily on what adding some simple consciousness functionality to this would be. For example: "Ok Google have to do a lot of accounting work today and I'm very tired can you help?" "My life is just very blurry lately I don't know how to deal with things do you have similar experiences?" "We need to create some original soothing music for bereaving agnostic libertarians can you suggest a few bars?" "Show me some Feng Shui color schemes for this post-industrial design interior to enhance our architectural group think." All of these are programmable with relatively simple consciousness emulation. John ------------------------------------------- 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
