On 5/15/07, Mike Tintner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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.
Well, one reference is my 1997 book "From Complexity to Creativity". That is somewhat out of date of course, and dates from when I was being a cognitive systems theorist rather than a practical AGI guy. But it does tell you something about my thinking.... A crappy HTML dump of that book is on goertzel.org My more recent work on creativity has not been published
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.
I think that both are rooted in the same basic cognitive processes. However, as I noted in From Complexity to Creativity, in some human minds a personality subcomponent that may be called a "creative subself" may emerge, which may utilize these basic cognitive processes in a manner systematically oriented toward creative generation. http://www.goertzel.org/books/complex/ch14.html So, I see the difference btw "higher creativity" as you describe, and workaday adaptive intelligence, as being a matter of overall high-level personality structure, more so than being a difference of the fundamental underlying cognitive processes.
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.
Of course, that is the end goal.... But as with human children, our AGIs will start with rediscovering well-known things for themselves... before they get to the stage of discovering amazing new things... -- 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/?member_id=231415&user_secret=fabd7936
