There's a good chance this topic has been discussed before, so feel free to point the way if that's the case. It's certainly been touched on since I joined the list, but I wanted to break it out for its own sake of discussion.
Background: There is a contest that implements the Turing Test for AI called the Loebner Prize: http://www.loebner.net/Prizef/loebner-prize.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loebner_prize It has plenty of controversy and seems to be shunned by most of the AI community. See: http://dir.salon.com/story/tech/feature/2003/02/26/loebner_part_one/index.html http://dir.salon.com/story/tech/feature/2003/02/27/loebner_part_2/index.html And briefly discussed on this list here: http://www.mail-archive.com/agi@v2.listbox.com/msg01155.html On the one hand, I respect that someone set up a contest modeled after the Turing Test. On the other hand, there are legitimate criticisms of it. In particular, an AI may be an AGI but not be capable of passing the Turing Test due to having subhuman processing power and/or a lack of human experience and/or primitive language skills. Not recognizing such an AGI would be unfortunate since having a "baby" AGI would be pretty damn exciting! Also, there are aspects of AI that would be interesting to test such as "getting along" in a spatial+temporal environment. The Turing Test can only cover these things indirectly. Still the Turing Test *is* a neat invention and it will certainly be interesting to see what year it is passed. But the real topic is this: *** Can we create an analogous test for identifying Baby AGI? *** In an email today, Josh mentioned "demonstrate adaptiveness, robustness, learning, and reflective control". Ben speaks of "achieving complex goals in complex environments." I like these definitions and I think the test (or series of tests) would be looking for things like that. So more specifically: Can we set up a series of tests that when passed would yield a high probability that an AI is a baby AGI? Is someone already working on this? Is this worth working on now or are we so far off that it would be premature? For those that are implementing AGI, to what extent have you already set up such tests for your system? And what form do those tests take? -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
