I have no doubt we will be able to make powerful robots, it just that the cost of manufacturing and servicing them might be considerably more than manufacturing and servicing an AGI capable of replacing much mind work.
Sam Adams of IBM's Josua Blue project told me that he was planning to have his system learn from embodiment in robots, but robots proved to be break down so much he decided to switch to grounding in virtual worlds. Edward W. Porter Porter & Associates 24 String Bridge S12 Exeter, NH 03833 (617) 494-1722 Fax (617) 494-1822 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Bob Mottram [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 3:26 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [agi] What best evidence for fast AI? I wouldn't be so sure about that. The technology for telerobotic labour is already here. This doesn't require any AGI breakthroughs, just wireless networking infrastructure and some suitably creative engineering designs. Telerobots operated by humans from wherever the labour can be sourced most cheaply would make good economic sense in many cases, and provide an incremental route towards more intelligent robots. Even with intelligence considerably lower than the human level (more like guppy level) vision guided robots using algorithms similar in principle to those seen in the recent Urban Challenge are beginning to perform useful work which was previously only done by people, such as warehouse transport. On 11/11/2007, Edward W. Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That's why I tell people the value of manual labor will not be > impacted as soon by the AGI revolution as the value of mind labor. ----- 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/?&; ----- 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=64140222-cb016e
