--- Jean-Paul Van Belle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Matt > > You call it an AGI proposal but it is described as a distributed search > algorithms that (merely) appears intelligent i.e. "design for an > Internet-wide message posting and search service". There doesn't appear to > be any grounding or semantic interpretation by the AI system? How will it > become more intelligent?
Turing was careful to make no distinction between "being intelligent" and "appearing intelligent". The requirement for passing the Turing test is to be able to compute a probability distribution P over text strings that varies from the true distribution no more than it varies between different people. Once you can do this, then given a question Q, you can compute answer A that maximizes P(A|Q) = P(QA)/P(Q). This does not require grounding. The way my system appears intelligent is by directing Q to the right experts, and by being big enough to have experts on nearly every conceivable topic of interest to humans. A lot of AGI research seems to be focused on how to represent knowledge and thought efficiently on a (much too small) computer, rather than on what services the AGI should provide for us. > > =Jean-Paul > >>> On 2007/12/07 at 06:41, in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matt Mahoney > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I wrote up a quick description of my AGI proposal at > > http://www.mattmahoney.net/agi.html > > basically summarizing what I posted over the last several emails, > including > > various attack scenarios. I'm sure I didn't think of everything. It is > > kind > > of sketchy because it's not an area I am actively pursuing. It should be > a > > useful service at least in the short term before it destroys us. > > -- > > Research Associate: CITANDA > Post-Graduate Section Head > Department of Information Systems > Phone: (+27)-(0)21-6504256 > Fax: (+27)-(0)21-6502280 > Office: Leslie Commerce 4.21 > -- Matt Mahoney, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- 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=73638450-5ef878
