Ben Goertzel wrote:
Hi all,
A lot of students email me asking me what to read to get up to speed on AGI.
So I started a wiki page called "Instead of an AGI Textbook",
http://www.agiri.org/wiki/Instead_of_an_AGI_Textbook#Computational_Linguistics
Unfortunately I did not yet find time to do much but outline a table
of contents there.
Ben,
Unfortunately I cannot bring myself to believe this will help anyone new
to the area.
The main reason is that this is only a miscellaneous list of topics,
with nothing to indicate a comprehensive theory or a unifying structure.
I do not ask for a complete unified theory, of course, but something
more than just a collection of techniques is needed if this is to be a
"textbook".
A second reason for being skeptical is that there is virtually no
cognitive psychology in this list - just a smattering of odd topics.
As you know, I have argued elsewhere that keeping close to the design of
the human mind is the *only* way to build an artificial general
intelligence. You completely disagree with this, and I respect your
point of view, but given that there is at least one other AGI researcher
(me) who believes that cognitive psychology is extremely significant, it
seems bizarre that your list does not even include a comprehensive
introduction to that field. How could a new person who wanted to get
into AGI make a judgment of the value of cognitive psychology if they
had nothing but a superficial appreciation of it?
Finally, you said that "Unfortunately, I don't have time to write such a
textbook, and no one else with the requisite knowledge and ability seems
to have the time and inclination either."
This is not correct: I have been working on this for quite some time,
and I believe I mentioned that on at least one occasion before (though
apologies if me memory is at fault there).
Richard loosemore
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