Generally speaking I find most of your methodology and approach agreeable...
In your intro, you do sorta underestimate the diversity of the AGI R&D community, and also of the (overlapping) symbolic systems and cognitive modeling community... which gives the reader your approach is more unique than it is. But, whatever.... As a record of your own approach and thinking, it's fine... I would say the general approach you're advocating, at a high level, is not that far from the one I've followed.... I had a period of "thinking about how the AGI should work" in the 90s, then a period of building stuff in the late 90s and early aughts, then a period of slowly building stuff while mostly thinking about how it should work and designing from 2002 thru 2008 .. and recently more building again.... I agree that jumping too fast into implementing ideas that aren't fully baked can lead to pathologies -- though it can ALSO be a very valuable way of helping one get one's ideas refined... Chapter 3 of "Engineering General Intelligence, Vol. 1" describes a thought experiment regarding how one would make the OpenCog/CogPrime architecture carry out the task "Build me something I haven't seen before." In that chapter it's a sketch, and then in subsequent chapters (largely in Vol. 2) more and more particulars are filled in... Once you get past the stage of figuring out how your AGI architecture *would* carry out human-like cognition if it were implemented, then you face the fact that implementing such a thing is a very large job -- too big for one person to do in a feasible amount of time ... and then you face the fact that it's extremely hard to get any person or organization who controls a lot of resources to put sufficient funds behind an R&D project of this nature.... So then what? My choice has been to start implementing anyway, but following a path so that the partial implementations can still serve some practical value, thus obtaining at least some funding from available sources (who are almost invariably more interested to fund near term practical projects than AGI). The approach seems to be generally working but it's sure slower and more complicated than it would be if we had a big block of funding just for AGI... Anyway I certainly don't want to discourage you from going down the intellectual path you've outlined, on your own. Thinking stuff through for yourself has great merits. OTOH, also you should be aware that others have trodden reasonably similar paths before and are arguably way further toward the destination... -- Ben G On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 9:46 AM, Sean Markan <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi AGI folks, > > I've written a paper about strategy and methodology for AGI. I would be > interested in your thoughts/criticism! > > http://www.basicai.org/pubs/h2hlai.pdf > > - Sean > > *AGI* | Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/19237892-5029d625> | > Modify > <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> > Your Subscription <http://www.listbox.com> > -- Ben Goertzel, PhD http://goertzel.org “Our first mothers and fathers … were endowed with intelligence; they saw and instantly they could see far … they succeeded in knowing all that there is in the world. When they looked, instantly they saw all around them, and they contemplated in turn the arch of heaven and the round face of the earth. … Great was their wisdom …. They were able to know all.... But the Creator and the Maker did not hear this with pleasure. … ‘Are they not by nature simple creatures of our making? Must they also be gods? … What if they do not reproduce and multiply?’ Then the Heart of Heaven blew mist into their eyes, which clouded their sight as when a mirror is breathed upon. Their eyes were covered and they could see only what was close, only that was clear to them.” — Popol Vuh (holy book of the ancient Mayas) ------------------------------------------- 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
