On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 2:35 PM, Dr. Matthias Heger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How general should be AGI?
>

If all you aim for is a system that has unlimited potential, then a
Universal Turing Machine is as far as you need to go, and as far as
you can go. A more important goal to be build a system that can learn
to do relevant things in reasonable time.

>
>  Our world is a hierarchical world with encapsulated levels. You can see
>  regularities on high levels without the knowledge of the details below this
>  level.
>  This is certainly a key feature of our world without that intelligent life
>  could not evolve at all.
>

I think you captured the bias that AGI system needs to have in this
quote quite well. It's probably a good summary of what a system must
be able to do to be deemed intelligent in the sense people are
intelligent: to be able to simulate the environment on different
levels of detail, focusing attention of different parts of the
structure, moving the attention to more general levels or more
detailed ones, to different parts of the structure or to the future
and the past of its development. Starting from this basis, it should
be possible to develop specialized subsystems that solve specific
problems not amenable to such description.

-- 
Vladimir Nesov
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

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