Just rereading & had to post that I suddenly realised that while your
definition of intelligence is confusing, your basic meaning is fine:
"The primary motivation behind the Novamente AI Engine
is to build a system that can achieve complex goals in
complex environments, a synopsis of the definition of intelligence
given in (Goertzel 1993). The emphasis is on the
plurality of goals and environments. A chess-playing program
is not a general intelligence, nor is a data mining engine,
nor is a program that can cleverly manipulate a researcher-
constructed microworld. A general intelligence
must be able to carry out a variety of different tasks in a
variety of different contexts, generalizing knowledge
between contexts and building up a context and task independent
pragmatic understanding of itself and the world."
The confusing part is that "complex".Whatever it may mean to you, it doesn't
mean that to others, (and indeed, period) - as the group's extensive
discussion of intelligence defnitions months back will show - and it can
even suggest, at a casual glance, that you see yourself as a successor to
Mandelbrot.
An accurate definition will be along the lines of:
"Intelligence has many dimensions. A crucial dimension of a true
intelligence* is that it is general. It is a general problem-solver and
general learner, able to solve, and learn how to solve, problems in many,
and potentially infinite, domains - *without* being specially preprogrammed
for any one of them. All computers to date have been specialists. The goal
of Artificial General Intelligence is to create the first generalist."
An AGI definition of intelligence surely has, by definition! - to be
"general" rather than "complex" and emphasize "general
problemsolving/learning". That seems to be what you actually mean.
(But I don't think that 'complex' is altogether accidental. What
distinguishes the Novamente papers/operation is that it is impressively
'complex' - as in: 'what a lot these guys have thought of & cover'. What no
AGI enterprise is yet, is 'general' - i.e. offering an explicit idea of how
it is going to solve the central problem of AGI - general problemsolving
and learning).
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