Do you think the Google AGI entity would answer if you ask "what stocks are going up tomorrow and with what level of accuracy or probability"? How about asking where and when the big earthquake will hit in California. Gauging AI's performance is going to be one of the major test of AI.
Dan Goe ---------------------------------------------------- >From : Ben Goertzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To : agi@v2.listbox.com Subject : Re: [agi] Google aims for AGI (purportedly) Date : Sat, 14 Jan 2006 17:15:20 -0500 > Peter Norvig (one of Google's AI leaders) shed some light onto this at > his talk at the ACC05 conference. > > What he alluded to there was a goal, in 5+ years from how, of having a > system that can answer any natural language query whose answer exists > somewhere on the Internet. > > E.g. if asked "Who was the first President of the US" it would answer > "George Washington" because somewhere there is a web page with a > sentence such as "George Washington, the first President of the United > States, blah blah." > > This would be Step 1. He didn't talk about it, but it's obvious the > next step would be something that could answer questions whose answers > are not contained on any single Web page. > > This is not exactly a direct approach at AGI in the sense that it has > no focus on self-understanding, creativity, and so forth. However, I > can see how proceeding in this direction could in time create a system > that could (with appropriate expenditure of additional effort) be > turned into an AGI. > > -- Ben > > > > > On 1/13/06, Martin Striz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 1/13/06, Eugen Leitl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > http://www.economist.com/business/displaystory.cfm?story_id=5382048 > > > > > > "But some people think they detect an even more grandiose design. Google is already working on a massive and global computing grid. Eventually, says Mr Saffo, .they're trying to build the machine that will pass the Turing test..<< > > > > The New Turing Test will be the ability to detect spam as obviously as > > a human mind. :) > > > > Martin > > > > ------- > > 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]
