Hi, > Personally, I believe that the most effective AI will have a core > general intelligence, that may be rather primitive, and a huge number of > specialized intelligence modules. The tricky part of this architecture > is designing the various modules so that they can communicate. It isn't > clear that this is always reasonable (consider the interfaces between > chess and cooking), but if the problem can be handled in a general > manner (there's that word again!), then one of the intelligences could > be specialized for "message passing". In this model the "core general > intelligence" will be for use when none of the hueristics fit the > problem. And it's attempts will be watched by another module whose > specialty is generating new hueristics. > > Plausible? I don't really know. Possibly to complicated to actually > build. It might need to be evolved from some simpler precursor.
It's clear that the human brain does something like what you're suggesting. Much of the brain is specialized for things like vision, motion control, linguistic analysis, time perception, etc. etc. The portion of the human brain devoted to general abstract thinking is very small. Novamente is based on an integrative approach sorta like you suggest. But it's not quite as rigidly modular as you suggest. Rather, we think one needs to -- create a flexible knowledge representation (KR) useful for representing all forms of knowledge (declarative, procedural, perceptual, abstract, linguistic, explicit, implicit, etc. etc.) -- create a number of specialized "mind agents" acting on the KR, carrying out specialized forms of intelligent processes -- create an appropriate set of integrative mind agents acting on the KR, oriented toward creating general intelligence based largely on the activity specialized mindagents Set up a knowledge base involving all these mind agents.. hook it up to sensors & actuators & give it a basic goal relating to its environment... Of course, this general framework and 89 cents will get you a McDonald's Junior Burger. All the work is in designing and implementing the KR and the MindAgents!! That's what we've spent (and are spending) all our time on... -- Ben ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/
