According to my rule of thumb, "If it has a natural language database it is wrong",
many of the proposed early AGI apps are rather unfeasable. However, there is a very interesting application which goes streight to the hart to the main AI problem and also provides a very valuble tool for flexing the chips that we already have in our sweatty little hands. The area is COMPILERS. Today's compilers are notoriously bad. The leading free compiler is atrociously bad. Now, if there could be an AI based compiler that could both understand the source and the machine in a very human-like way the output code would be that much better. This would also be valuble for a "bootstrap AI" though I strongly caution against such an AI untill we have a _MUCH_ better understanding of what is going on. I expect to be preparing a proposal in a few months that will outline a complete strategy for an AI that should be both fesable and, through inhreant architectual constraints, be reasonably safe. -- pain (n): see Linux. http://users.rcn.com/alangrimes/ ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?[EMAIL PROTECTED]
