Mike, And how do you measure how they deal with fear and uncertainty? How much
time do you allow the agent for hesitation, changing their mind, chopping and changing their mind, and staring blankly into space? How do you compute their "dark nights of the soul" - as Pei and every creative person will have? These are parts of performance too.
I simply don't care whether an algorithm experiences "dark nights of the soul", whether it is afraid, uncertain, changes its mind, is greedy etc. All I care about is end performance. The same is true of the soul, consciousness, true love etc. Take consciousness. Does consciousness improve performance in some situations? If it does then universal intelligence tests for consciousness because it will pick up this performance advantage in these situations. Or, if consciousness has no impact on a system's performance in any situation, then from my perspective whether a system is conscious or not has nothing to do with its intelligence. It may be the case that some very intelligent systems are not conscious. I don't know how to measure consciousness, so I can't say for sure. 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/?member_id=231415&user_secret=fabd7936
