On 28/01/2008, Ben Goertzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When your computer can write and debug > > software faster and more accurately than you can, then you should worry. > > A tool that could generate computer code from formal specifications > would be a wonderful thing, but not an autonomous intelligence. > > A program that creates its own questions based on its own goals, or > creates its own program specifications based on its own goals, is > a quite different thing from a tool.
Having written a lot of computer programs, as I suspect many on this list have, I suspect that fully automatic programming is going to require the same kind of commonsense reasoning as human have. When I'm writing a program I may draw upon diverse ideas derived from what might be called "common knowledge" - something which computers presently don't have. The alternative is genetic programing, which is more of a sampled search through the space of all programs, but I rather doubt that this is what's going on in my mind for the most part. ----- 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=90487402-ec9313
