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Mike Tintner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said,
"The "making sense" level of your brain - an AGI that works - is
the level that seeks individual examples (and exceptions) for every
generalization.
A general intelligence doesn't just generalize, it individualizes. It can
talk not just about "the field of AGI" but about Boris K, Ben G., Stephen
Reed, etc etc. And it has to, otherwise those generalizations don't "make
sense".
I'm stressing this because so many people's ideas about AGI ...
involve only, or almost only a generalizing intelligence with no
individualizing, sensemaking level."
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I agree with what Mike was saying in the part of his message I quoted here,
except that the ability to understand involves the ability to make
generalizations. But, a generalization can be seen as a specific relative to
another level of generalization. I also think most people who have been
seriously involved in AI and who think of AI in terms of generalization realize
that specification must play an important role in understanding.
Jim Bromer
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