--- Richard Loosemore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This whole scenario is filled with unjustified, unexamined assumptions. > > For example, you suddenly say "I foresee a problem when the collective > computing power of the network exceeds the collective computing power of > the humans that administer it. Humans will no longer be able to keep up > with the complexity of the system..." > > Do you mean "collective intelligence"? Because if you mean collective > computing power I cannot see what measure you are using (my laptop has > greater computing power than me already, because it can do more > arithmetic sums in one second than I have done in my life so far). And > either way, this comes right after a great big AND THEN A MIRACLE > HAPPENS step ...! You were talking about lots of dumb, specialized > agents distributed around the world, and then all of a sudden you start > talking as if they could be intelligent. Why should anyone believe they > would spontaneously do that? First they are agents, then all of a > sudden they are AGIs and they leave us behind: I see no reason to allow > that step in the argument. > > In short, it looks like an even bigger non-sequiteur than before.
Yes, I mean collective intelligence. The "miracle" is that any interface to the large network of simple machines will appear intelligent, in the same way that Google can make a person appear to know a lot more than they do. It is hard to predict what this collective intelligence will do, in the same way as it is hard to predict human behavior by studying individual neurons. I don't know if my outline for an infrastructure for AGI will be built as I designed it, but I believe something like it WILL be built, probably ad-hoc and very complex, because it has economic value. -- 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=89895239-3ad383
