Steve: I have been advocating fixing the brain shorts that lead to problems, rather than jerking the entire world around to make brain shorted people happy.
Which "brain shorts"? IMO the brain's capacity for shorts in one situation is almost always a capacity for short-cuts in another - and dangerous to tamper with. Steve:Let's instead 1. make something USEFUL, like knowledge management programs that do things that people (and future AGIs) are fundamentally poor at doing Well, in principle, a general expert system that can be a problem-solving aid in many domains would be a fine thing. But - if you'll forgive the ignorance of this question - my impression was that expert systems were a big fad that has largely failed??? If you have a link to some survey here, I'd appreciate it. Steve, the capacity for general thinking/intelligence HAS to be - and is being - explored. William may be right that all the main AGI-ers are like him avoiding the challenge of general problemsolving, and hoping that the answer will "emerge" later on in the development of their systems. But roboticists are setting themselves general problems nbw - in the shape if nothing else of the ICRA challenge, as I've pointed out before. I ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=103754539-40ed26 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
