Ben Goertzel wrote:
Hi,This probably won't work. Thinking of the brain as a model, we have something called the "synesthetic gearbox" which is used to relate information in one modality of senstation with another modality. This is a part of the reason that I suggested that one of the hueristic modules be specialized for message passing (and translation).
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.)
Again the term "general intelligence". I would like to suggest that the intelligence needed to repair an auto engine is different from that needed to solve a calculus equation. I see the General Intelligence as being the primarily to handle problems for which no hueristic can be found, and would suggest that nearly any even slightly tuned hueristic is better than the general intellligence for almost all problems. E.g., if one is repairing an auto engine, one hueristic would be to remember the shapes of all the pieces you have seen, and to remember where they were when you first saw them. Just think how that one hueristic would assist reassembling the engine.-- 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
May I suggest that if you are even close to what you are attempting, that you have the start of a dandy personal secretary. With so much correspondence coming via e-mail these days, this would create a very simplified environment in which the entity would need to operate. In this limited environment you wouldn't need full meanings for most words, only categories and valuations.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...
I have a project which I am aiming at that area, but it is barely getting started.
-- Ben--
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