Well, I don't think that building an AI is in principle too hard for a single mind to handle.... Understanding the brain may well be, because the brain has so damn many parts with their individual complex dynamics -- an AI doesn't need to be as complicated as the brain, though. (As a rough analogy, look how much harder it is to understand a bird wing than an airplane wing...).
We're trying to build an AI, not via one person's efforts only, but via the combined efforts of a small team. I'm betting this is enough. I don't understand all of the Novamente codebase in detail -- no one person does -- but our small team, collectively, does. -- Ben G > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of J.Andrew Rogers > Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2004 11:19 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [agi] Model simplification and the kitchen sink > > > > On Oct 24, 2004, at 2:14 PM, Brad Wyble wrote: > > Another point to this discussion is that the problems of AI and > > cognitive science are unsolvable by a single person. 1 brain can't > > understand itself, but perhaps 10,000 brains can understand or design > > 1 brain. > > > This does not follow. You can build arbitrarily complex machines with > a very tiny finite control function and plenty of tape. The complexity > of AI as an algorithm and design space is not in the same class as the > complexity of an instance of human-level AI, even though the latter is > just the former given some state space to play with. > > It is highly improbable that the core control function of intelligence > cannot be understood by one person, or at least I see no evidence in > theory to support this conjecture. Intelligence appears to be a pretty > simple thing, even in theory; most of the nominal complexity can be > attributed to people who don't really understand it (IMNSHO) or who > require the addition of some complexity to solve a practical design > problem. What you are saying is kind of like saying that no one can > comprehend pi because no one can recite all the digits. > > j. andrew rogers > > > ------- > 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]
