> > 3) > > Any successful AGI system is also going to have components in two other > > categories: > > > > a) specialized-intelligence components that solve particular problems in > > ways having little or nothing to do with truly general intelligence > > capability > > > > b) specialized-intelligence components that are explicitly > built on top of > > components having truly general intelligence capability > > > > Are you willing to explain why you put them in this order, or has > this available elsewhere, perhaps on agiri.org? I ask because > it's my perspective that the brain is built the other way around, > with specialized intelligence modules on the bottom and AGI built > on top of them. > > I know you're not trying to build a brain per se, but I'm curious > why you choose this manner to stack ASI and AGI. It's my belief > that in the case of our brains, what we call AGI is the seamless > combination of many ASI's. Our problem solving looks general, > but it really isn't. There's AGI wiring on top to glue it all > together, but most of the work is being done subconsciously in > specialized regions.
Visual metaphors like "on top of" fail us here, I'm afraid. I think we do have different perspectives, but I'm afraid I wasn't 100% clear on what my perspective is. I think there is * an underlayer of basic representational and dynamic mechanisms. In the brain it's neurons, synapses and neurotransmitters, etc. In Novamente it's Nodes, Links, MindAgents, etc. * a collection of "intelligence processes" that use these mechanisms. Some of these processes have "potentially general intelligence capability" (though on finite hardware/wetware they can never manifest truly general intelligence). Others are intrinsically specialized in nature. These intelligence processes interact richly, and some of the specialized ones can do what they do only via interaction with the potentially-general one (my category 3b before). Next, I think that an intelligent system (human or AGI) consists of a collection of functionally specialized units, each of which involves some of the above-mentioned intelligence processes, in different combinations and with different tweaks. Perception and action and socialization and language processing are examples of things carried out in the human brain by units that are dominated by specialized intelligence processes (but as much 3b as 3a based processes, especially in the socialization and language processing cases). Cognition is an example of something carried out in the brain by units dominated by potentially-generally-intelligent processes. So, in the sense that cognition is "on top of" perception, action, language, etc., I agree that there's a pattern of general-intelligence methods operating "on top of" specialized methods. But I do think there are very important "general intelligence" processes in the brain (and in any successful AGI) that act independently of -- and more broadly than -- any specialized process. Yes, this is a somewhat complicated picture I'm painting, of the interweaving of generality and specialization in the mind. But I think this kind of complicatedness is the lot of a finite mind in a (comparatively) essentially unboundedly complex universe... -- Ben Goertzel ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?[EMAIL PROTECTED]
