My current thinking is that it will take lots of effort by multiple people, to take a concept or prototype AGI and turn into something that is useful in the real world. And even one or two people worked on the correct concept for their whole lives it may not produce the full thing, they may hit bottle necks in their thinking or lack the proper expertise to build the hardware needed to make it run in anything like real time. Building up a community seems the only rational way forward.
So how should we go about trying to convince each other we have reasonable concepts that deserve to be tried? I can't answer that question as I am quite bad at convincing others of the interestingness of my work. So I'm wondering what experiments, theories or demonstrations would convince you that someone else was onto something? For me an approach should have the following feature: 1) The theory not completely divorced from brains It doesn't have to describe everything about human brains, but you can see how roughly a similar sort of system to it may be running in the human brain and can account for things such as motivation, neural plasticity. 2) It takes some note of theoretical computer science So nothing that ignores limits to collecting information from the environment or promises unlimited bug free creation/alteration of programming. 3) A reason why it is different from normal computers/programs How it deals with meaning and other things. If it could explain conciousness in some fashion, I would have to abandon my own theories as well. I'm sure there are other criteria I have as well, but those three are the most obvious. As you can see I'm not too interested in practical results right at the moment. But what about everyone else? Will Pearson ----- 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
