David said: Most of the people on this list have quite different ideas about how an AGI should be made BUT I think there are a few things that most, if not all agree on.
1. Intelligence can be created by using computers that exist today using software. 2. Physical embodiment of the software is not essential (might be desirable) for intelligence to be created. 3. Intelligence hasn't yet been reached in anyone's AGI project. I agree entirely. My comments on this list are generally grounded in my own work, or my experience at Cycorp and my intuition is that indeed today's multicore computers are sufficient to achieve intelligence. Some evidence: driverless cars, e.g. the DARPA Urban Challenge, are quite competent using modest clusters of multicore computersI estimate that a near-future 8-core cpu can achieve real-time automatic speech recognition using the Sphinx-4 softwareMy own very preliminary results on an English dialog system gives me hope that a multicore cpu can be used to robustly convert text into logic faster than a human can perform the same task. For example, my Incremental Fluid Construction Grammar parser can convert "the book is on the table" into logical statements at the rate of 400 times per second per thread. That gives me a lot of headroom when expanding the grammar rule set, adding commonsense entailed facts, and pruning alternative interpretations. -Steve Stephen L. Reed Artificial Intelligence Researcher http://texai.org/blog http://texai.org 3008 Oak Crest Ave. Austin, Texas, USA 78704 512.791.7860 ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=95818715-a78a9b Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
