If language mastery is a prime requirement of AGI, I think you're buggered
[technical term]. That's like trying to jump a billion or more years of
evolution in ... what? .. a few years?
There are many good reasons why language was such an EXTREMELY belated
development in the evolution of general intelligence. There are a lot of
other kinds of intelligence that have to be developed first.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 11:06 PM
Subject: Re: [agi] The University of Phoenix Test [was: Why do you think
your AGI design will work?]
Benjamin Goertzel wrote:
Distribution requirements mean that the AGI must master a number of
different skills (math, writing, critical thinking, etc.). Also,
some classes require intelligent conversation with the prof and
other students, though there is not any requirement for flawless
humanlike English communication: the AI should be able to pass even
if it admits it's an AI.
Let's call this the "University of Phoenix" test.
Does anyone have an argument against this test for AGI? Clearly it
is a sufficient but not necessary condition for human-level AGI,
just like the Turing test.
I think it'd be hard to make incremental progress on the Phoenix Test
before the AI has AGI-complete understanding of natural language and the
environment. That is, like the Turing Test, it serves as a propositional
test for completion but not an incremental test for progress.
Aside from that, it sounds fair enough to me, and unlike the Turing Test
it might not require strongly superhuman intelligence.
--
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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