In the example cited, I think the basic error is that it still is the human being that is making sense of the robot's behavior. The controlled object does not in fact "seek refuge" at all. The program probably measures a certain parameter, which is an illusion of a "battery" and then it triggers a "refuel" process, yet another illusion. In this scenario, the programmer is clearly the AI. By the same token, "boredom" would be a function of the programmer too. The apparent need to ascribe human emotion to machines is rather obscure. Not that it cannot be achieved programmatically. Just obscure.
I recall in 1991, as I encoded human-like responses to user-error messages, how it was being frowned upon by the IT department. It was easy to do then, but it was merely the programmer instructing the program to pretend to react like a human to input errors. In reality, neither the programmer, nor the program was conscious of what the user was really doing. My contention is that the industry need to consistently and in a semantically disciplined practice, separate fact from fiction from programming from illusion from AI from smart. In this example then, if the object could locate and identify a data, or information construct in the database (which may have been inserted via visual data, bootstrap, or another machine), which it can interpret on its own developing logic from said knowledge base as relevant "fuel", and autonomously figure out how to find its way to the identified resource, and how to refuel itself - to replenish its own functional platform - then I would agree that a level of functional AGI has been achieved. Robert Benjamin ________________________________ From: Keyvan Mir Mohammad Sadeghi <[email protected]> Sent: 13 March 2017 01:03 AM To: AGI Subject: [agi] The hard problem of AGI grounding We've all heard of the cliche, an AI feels alive and doesn't want to die: https://youtu.be/lhoYLp8CtXI I've actually seen a prototype, a robot in a game world taking refuge back in it's house because that's where the battery is. But what happens when it's "alive" for a while, read all of Wikipedia and everything else on the web, lived for millions of years with all the primitive human-like instincts that we've given it, in the span of five minutes, and it's bored! How to keep it "on" after that? AGI | Archives<https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now> [https://www.listbox.com/images/feed-icon-10x10.jpgecd5649.jpg?uri=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubGlzdGJveC5jb20vaW1hZ2VzL2ZlZWQtaWNvbi0xMHgxMC5qcGc] <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/26941503-0abb15dc> | Modify<https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> Your Subscription [https://www.listbox.com/images/listbox-logo-small.pngecd5649.png?uri=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubGlzdGJveC5jb20vaW1hZ2VzL2xpc3Rib3gtbG9nby1zbWFsbC5wbmc] <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
