Ben Goertzel writes:
I don't think there are any good, general incremental tests for progress
toward
AGI. There are just too many different potentially viable approaches,
with
qualitatively different development arcs.
Nevertheless, I wish somebody would try to specify some that are perhaps
not completely general. Without that, the only way to determine whether any
progress at all is being made is by an analysis of internal structures --
pointing to
a data structure and making claims about its meaning. And the developers of
the system are notoriously bad at doing this as they are too emotionally and
intellectually tied to the work.
I wonder at what point our ancesters became "generally intelligent"? Were
humans
of 10,000 years ago generally intelligent? If so, why did it take them so
many billions
of person-years to develop the most rudimentary capabilities that we seem to
expect
our artifical general intelligences to breeze through effortlessly? I
suppose the
real test is at what point an individual from the past would be able to pass
the Turing
test (or some similar thing) if born into our present world and educated
like we were
and I doubt any scientists could make any confident guesses about that.
I think that figuring out a good working definition of general intelligence
and
demonstratable intermediate steps is the single most important missing piece
of the endeavor.
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