This is a light article about the purpose and value of sleep in humans: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/technology/technology.html?in_article_id=437683&in_page_id=1965
The article is nothing earth shattering, but it reminded me that I've thought for a long time that an AGI would likely have a sleep cycle to perform various functions such as optimizing memory retrieval, learning new associations, solving problems, etc. What about the AGIs that people are building or working towards, such as those from Novamente, AdaptiveAI, Hall, etc.? Do/Will your systems have "sleep periods" for internal maintenance and improvement? If so, what types of activities do they perform during sleep? Or feel free to chime in with thoughts on AGI and sleep even if you haven't begun building yet... -Chuck ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?list_id=303
