On 11/1/07, Edward W. Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Personal AGIs could be very good psychologists for humans. > > If the nano-electronics revolution delivers on its promise, in fifteen to > twenty-five years most of us should be able to afford and wear (or have > implanted) personal AGI's that can substrantially record all of our lives. > Once they have recorded audio, video, and emotional indicators of all or > substantial portions of our lives, they will be able to provide us very real > advice about what has made us happy, what has engendered bad emotions, what > we are doing right and wrong in our relations with others and in our work. > They will help us understand the origin of many of our problems, help advise > us about how to solve such problems and better achieve our goals, and help > remind us when we are straying from what we have told it we really want to > do.
I have thought that, just as we think other animals aren't "intelligent" because they don't have productive language or the ability to do math, more intelligent beings might say we're not intelligent, because we can't do statistics in our head. Imagine that! Trying to go through life and figure out which actions had good effects, and which had bad effects, and what actions caused what later events, without even being able to evaluate the covariance between different stimuli, or perform a factor analysis to discern the underlying causes, or perform a multiple regression to optimize our interval-valued choices! That's not intelligence; that's just making wild guesses. Perhaps these personal AIs can help with that. - Phil Goetz ----- 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=8660244&id_secret=60179978-85adf3
