I agree with this. I'm not sure why people think it cannot be a service machine. At the end of the day, its still a COMPUTER PROGRAM. Albeit a rather sophisticated one..
If we don't build it to serve us, than why in the hell should we build it at all? Technology serves us every single day without having a self interest. An AGI could do the same exact thing, only better.. Kevin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ben Goertzel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 11:36 PM Subject: RE: [agi] Friendliness toward humans > > > I tend to agree with Damien. > > I see no intrinsic reason why a service-driven AGI system could not become > as intelligent as humans and then more intelligent. > > Suppose an AGI is given an initial motivational structure that rewards it > for > > * serving people effectively > * discovering and creating new patterns > > Why are these not challenges enough to spur the evolution of ever-increasing > intelligence within the AGI system? > > Human intelligence arose largely out of the need to compete for survival, > but AGI's need not have the same motivators. > > Survival is a suitably complex goal to drive the emergence of intelligence, > but so, perhaps, is service. > > The service-oriented motivational structure is very close to what > Novamente's initial motivational structure will be. Heck, the Novamente > software system right now -- 25% complete and non-generally-intelligent as > it is -- is *already* being used to serve people. (Biomind LLC's alpha > Biomind Toolkit product, based on parts of the incomplete Novamente system, > will be done in March... its goal is to serve biologists with great data > analyses based on a broad integrative view of biological data... see > www.biomind.com). > > - Ben Goertzel > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > > Behalf Of Damien Sullivan > > Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 10:27 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [agi] Friendliness toward humans > > > > > > On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 10:23:07PM -0800, Alan Grimes wrote: > > > > > You _MIGHT_ be able to produce a proof of concept that way... However, a > > > practical working AI, such as the one which could help me design my my > > > next body, would need to be quite a bit more. =\ > > > > Why? Why should such a thing require replacing the original > > service-driven > > motivation with something riskier? > > > > -xx- Damien X-) > > > > ------- > > To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate > > your subscription, > > please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > ------- > To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, > please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?[EMAIL PROTECTED] > ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?[EMAIL PROTECTED]
