Ben, Am a little confused here - not that we're not talking very roughly along the same lines and about the same areas. It's just that for me conceptual blending is simply a form of analogy, which we've just discussed (and one that works by sensory/imaginative rather than symbolic analogy).
If you have a ref. for your creativity work, it'd be interesting to see. I define creativity in a very hard way as discovery/ invention/ innovation - applying to every area of human culture and life. Many, of course, define it in a v. soft,loose way and/or restrict it (wrongly) to certain types of thinking, like the arts. I repeat that I think it v. important to distinguish between the ordinary, everyday kind of "adaptive" intelligence, and creativity, which is a rarer, higher form. (Analogy is central to both). Have you envisaged AGI tackling hard creativity - like, say, trying to devise a new form of electric battery for cars, or a new fuel alternative to gasoline, or indeed synthesize an artificial organism? (Hard enough, perhaps, just to get an agent to pick itself up when it falls down?) Obviously a truly creative AGI - a vastly more prolific version, say, of Edison - would arguably count as a real superintelligence. ----- Original Message ----- From: Benjamin Goertzel To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 1:12 AM Subject: Re: [agi] definitions of intelligence, again?! For the philosophy of AI - and this IS a discussion of philosophy - to ignore Psychology and human intelligence, and the very extensive work already done here, including on creativity - doesn't seem v. wise, given that AI/AGI still haven't got to square one in the attempt either to emulate or to satisfactorily define human-level "fluid", "adaptive" intelligence. Well, I wrote a lot about the relation btw AI and human creativity in my 1997 book "From Complexity to Creativity." And more recently, I have drawn on the psychological theory of "conceptual blending" http://markturner.org/blending.html in the Novamente design (Novamente's "concept creation" module).... Blending is certainly an example of fluid, adaptive intelligence... -- Ben ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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/?&; ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.467 / Virus Database: 269.7.0/804 - Release Date: 14/05/2007 16:46 ----- 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
