>> Why do you think that a Legg-Hutter style intelligence test would >> not expose an agent to things it hadn't seen before?
I don't necessarily think that a Legg-Hutter style intelligence test would not expose an agent to things it hadn't seen before. I was objecting to the fact that your paper did not even mention, much less stress, the fact that prediction of previously unseen things is critical to intelligence. I agree with the first sentence of your second paragraph entirely but point out that a "by rote" machine with virtually infinite experience will test as if it had high universal intelligence unless the test manages to hit upon some area where it didn't have experience -- and I feel that this is entirely incorrect. The *true* distinguishing feature between intelligent machines and "by rote" machines is how well they handle cases that they haven't seen before and, as I said, you didn't even really mention this in your paper (anywhere where I could find it, at least :-). ----- Original Message ----- From: Shane Legg To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 5:25 PM Subject: Re: [agi] rule-based NL system On 5/2/07, Mark Waser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: One of the things that I think is *absolutely wrong* about Legg's paper is that he only uses more history as an example of generalization. I think that predictive power is test for intelligence (just as he states) but that it *must* include things that the agent has never seen before. In this sense, I think that Legg's paper is off the mark to the extent of being nearly useless (since you can see how it's has poisoned poor Matt's approach). Mark, Why do you think that a Legg-Hutter style intelligence test would not expose an agent to things it hadn't seen before? To have a significant level of intelligence an agent must be able to deal with environments that are full of surprises and unknowns. Agents that can't do this would only be able to deal with the most basic environments, and thus would have a relatively low universal intelligence value. Cheers Shane ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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/?&; ----- 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
