Well, we're taking the incremental route toward AGI right now, in the Novamente project. I don't think it's faster than the direct route, but at least it's *a* route.... And it's important to note that we're doing incremental-with-a-clear-roadmap-to-the-end-goal, as opposed to just doing incremental steps and hoping they lead somewhere...
Ben g > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Yan King Yin > Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2004 8:10 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [agi] Open AGI? > > From: "Ben Goertzel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >> 1. I think a testbed for AGI already exists, it's called the job > >> market. We should help baby AGIs find work in real job markets. > >> I think there might be some places on the internet trying to find > >> applications of traditional kinds of AIs, but I'm not sure how that > >> applies to the problem of AGI. > > > >Experience shows that general intelligence is not necessary in order for > >software to take over many human jobs. Thus, taking over human jobs is > >not a good general testbed for AGI. > > It would be a nice thing if the one-shot approach works, > provided that the Friendliness problem is also solved. > But the incremental approach has it advantages too and > it may well turn out that the slower route is faster. > > YKY > > > ____________________________________________________________ > Find what you are looking for with the Lycos Yellow Pages > http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default .a > sp?SRC=lycos10 > > ------- > 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]
