On 4/18/07, YKY (Yan King Yin) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From my perspective, video generation is not required for AGI. It could be an impressive demo, but that's all. Am I missing your point? What kind of application can you think of for video generation? How can it "save us from a terminal fall"? OTOH answering commonsense queries may be much more useful, especially when the KB reaches a certain level of mass / sophistication. In a commercial project the top priority is to produce something useful, rather than impressive demos.
Oh, I agree with your emphasis on producing something useful. I think the ability to generate 3D images and video on demand will be very useful in areas like movies, video games, mechanical engineering, architecture; my vision of what an AGI should look like could be described as a smart CAD program. Now, I agree answering commonsense queries would also be useful, and by all means let that also be a feature. But what will happen to a project that focuses _only_ on text I/O? I can answer that: short-term progress using tricks akin to Eliza, Google etc will be so much easier than chewing on the hard problems of spatial reasoning etc, that the pressure to use the tricks will be overwhelming. I don't have the self-discipline that would be required to stick to the hard long-term path in the absence of any visual output. I don't believe anyone has. So while such a project may produce improved versions of Eliza, Google etc, it can never produce AGI. ----- 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/?member_id=231415&user_secret=fabd7936
