I hope it goes well Steve. Cheers Colin -----Original Message----- From: "Steve Richfield" <[email protected]> Sent: 25/03/2015 8:17 AM To: "AGI" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [agi] Half a Wish...
Matt, On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 12:49 PM, Matt Mahoney <[email protected]> wrote: We all have our pet theories why AGI is unsolved. Meanwhile, Google and Facebook are making real progress while ignoring them. ... and I have "hired" (for a piece of the action) a CEO , who has prepared a business plan to raise $10M, to build substantially the same AI system to exceed Google's and Facebook's apparent present plans described in the patent, and I will be meeting with the first prospective investor on Thursday. Wish me luck. So, yes I very much agree with your comments. Looooong before present AGI efforts could possibly bear fruit, the Internet will be producing the promised benefits of AGI quite well. Feel honored - I referenced your work in my patent. Nonetheless I will continue to hang around here, as just maybe some motivated newbie (e.g. Jim) might come up with the Holy Grail of AGI, or in failing, might so clearly exhibit whatever character flaws are needed to make such efforts reliably fail, that we can avoid those same pitfalls in the future. Steve ==================== On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 5:43 PM, colin hales via AGI <[email protected]> wrote: Of course you know my take on this: It's because we've been insisting on using computers and assuming consciousness away for 60 years. Cheers Colin From: Steve Richfield via AGI Sent: 24/03/2015 8:09 AM To: AGI Subject: [agi] Half a Wish... In most areas of research, there are ways of recognizing way-points on the path to domination. For example, in medical research, the halfway point to curing an illness is typically marked when you can answer the question "Why is this illness really a good thing?!!!" The answer usually contains an explanation of why the patient would be dead by now if their body hadn't taken action leading to the present illness, which uncovers an invisible underlying malfunction that is the REAL problem, etc. I wonder what way-points there might be on the path to AGI? Perhaps this will come when someone can answer the question "Why is AGI so difficult?", but I suspect others here might have their own ideas regarding way-points to AGI, as different from way-points along wrong paths. Thoughts? Steve AGI | Archives | Modify Your Subscription AGI | Archives | Modify Your Subscription -- -- Matt Mahoney, [email protected] AGI | Archives | Modify Your Subscription -- Full employment can be had with the stoke of a pen. Simply institute a six hour workday. That will easily create enough new jobs to bring back full employment. AGI | Archives | Modify Your Subscription ------------------------------------------- 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
