Bob:
http://streebgreebling.blogspot.com/2008/03/running-before-you-can-walk.html
The "running before you walk" analogy is interesting. It gives rise to the
seed of an idea. Basically, a vast amount of what is happening and has
happened in AGI and robotics is ridiculous - a whole series of enterprises
which are ridiculous because they are all trying to take a "short-cut" - to
try and jump what are usually several steps, if not stages, up the
evolutionary ladder of intelligence. Trying to talk in words about the
world before they can see what they are talking about. Trying to gain
databases of verbal/symbolic knowledge about the world before they know what
a word is and learned to attach words to objects.
We really need something like an Evolutionary Framework of Errors in AI.
(And there is something loosely comparable in science - where we have an
Evolutionary Psychology which *starts* with human beings, (the product, to
some extent, of science's human exceptionalism), and not a true universal
Evo-Psych).
An awful lot of people are going to waste an awful lot of time without one.
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