On 7/13/06, Shane Legg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Even an AIXI needs a "safe" environment to start with, just like a human
baby. It would only be after it had learnt the basics of how its
environment works that it would become truly super powerful.
When thinking about how powerful an AIXI is I think it is useful to make a
distinction between a "baby AIXI", and a "mature AIXI" that had learnt about
its environment.
That is fair. No system, no matter how intelligent, can survive in any
arbitrary environment, especially at the beginning of its life. The
more adaptive a system is, usually the less innate capability it has.
While AIXI is all a bit pie in the sky, "mathematical philosophy" if you
like,
I think the above does however highlight something of practical importance:
Even if your AI is incomputably super powerful, like AIXI, the training and
education of the AI is still really important. Very few people spend time
thinking about how to teach and train a baby AI. I think this is a greatly
ignored aspect of AI.
Agree, but there is a reason: before a "baby AI" is actually built,
not to much can be said about its education. For example, assume both
AIXI and NARS are successfully built, they will need to be educated in
quite different ways (though there will be some similarity), given the
different design. I'll worry about education after the details of the
system are relatively stable.
Pei
Shane
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