Computers are currently designed by human-level intellitences, so presumably they could be designed by human-level AGI's. (Which if they were human-level in the tasks that are currently hard for computers means they could be millions of times faster than humans for tasks at which computers already way out perform us.) I mention that "appropriate reading and training" would be required, and I assumed this included access to computer science and computer technology sources, which the peasants of the middle age would not have access.
So I don't understand your problem. -----Original Message----- From: Dennis Gorelik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 1:01 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [agi] Self-building AGI Ed, > At the current stages this may be true, but it should be remembered that > building a human-level AGI would be creating a machine that would itself, > with the appropriate reading and training, be able to design and program > AGIs. No. AGI is not necessarily that capable. In fact first versions of AGI would not be that capable for sure. Consider middle age peasant, for example. Such peasant has general intelligence ("GI" part in "AGI"), right? What kind of training would you provide to such peasant in order to make him design AGI? ----- 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=70898713-6548e1
