That's a cute comparison, but pretty insulting both to infants and
developmental psychology, which continues to paint an ever more detailed
picture of what restless, exploratory scientists infants are. Damn noisy
too, I agree. Surely a major challenge for AGI/robotics is to build an
agent/robot that is only fractionally as exploratory.
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From: "J Storrs Hall, PhD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2007 12:41 PM
Subject: Re: [agi] Tommy
On Friday 11 May 2007 08:55:12 pm Mike Tintner wrote:
...All these machines you are talking about are
basically inert lumps of metal and don't exist without human beings to
switch them on, feed them & interpret them.
Same is true of a baby, except for the part where you can turn it off and
get
a full night's sleep.
Josh
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