On 3/20/07, J. Storrs Hall, PhD. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
There is one way you can form a coherent, working system from a congeries
of
random agents: put them in a marketplace. This has a fairly rigorous discipline of its own and most of them will not survive... and of course
the
system has to have some way of coming up with new ones that will. [...]
This is assuming that you have a *massive* number of agents who participate in said market. In reality I don't think there are a massive number of narrow AI projects wanting to plug into a large AI ecosystem. There are "many", but not "massively many", narrow AI projects out there. For example, I can believe there are 100s of face-recognition systems world-wide, but definitely not > 10,000. Can you clarify: are those "agents" all engineered by one group of programmers, or are they recruited externally, eg from the internet? In many ways, my rule-based production system cum truth maintenance system can be viewed as a market place (of production rules or beliefs). The beliefs in such a system depend on its experience, is unpredictable, and is therefore emergent. In this sense, *any* AGI would display emergent behavior. It all goes back to my original analysis: everyone wants to start their own "marketplace" and get other people to participate in it. YKY ----- 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
