On 02/03/2008, Mike Tintner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jeez, Will, the point of Artificial General Intelligence is that it can
>  start adapting to an unfamiliar situation and domain BY ITSELF.  And your
>  FIRST and only response to the problem you set was to say: "I'll get someone
>  to tell it what to do."

Nothing we ever do is by ourselves, entirely, we have a wealth of
examples to draw from that we have acquired from family/friends and
teachers. The situation I described was like throwing a baby into a
completely unfamiliar problem, without the wealth of experience we
have built up over the years, so some hand holding is to be expected.
Also I'm not planning to have a full AI made any time soon, I'm merely
laying the ground work, for many other people to work upon. I may get
animal level adaptivity/intelligence myself, it depends how quickly I
can build the first layer and the tools I need for the next.

This is also why I concentrate on the most flexible system possible, I
do not wish to constrain the system to do any more than needs be done
to achieve my current goal. This goal is to add a way of selecting
between the programs within a computer system dependent upon what the
system needs to do.

It is more fundamental than your cross-over idea, in that it is a
lower level phenomenon, but not in the sense it is more important for
acting intelligently.

>  IOW you simply avoided the problem and thought only of cheating. What a
>  solution, or merest idea for a solution, must do is tell me how that
>  intelligence will start adapting by itself  - will generalize from its
>  existing skills to cross over domains.

I'm not building the solution, merely a framework which I think will
enable people to build the solution. I think this needs to be done
first, in essence I am trying to deal with the "develop and acquire
skills" problem.

  Will Pearson

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