--- On Sat, 6/14/08, Dr. Matthias Heger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am not sure whether it is the right way to go from very > narrow chess-like AI to super-human level AGI in only one step.
I don't think that was the question. Passing the Turing test is of little value. Making humans is easy, but training them is expensive. Remember the goal is to make money. The value is in machines that can do things that people can't do, like adding numbers or searching a database very quickly. Machines with language and vision, but without human limitations, would be very valuable but wouldn't pass a Turing test. Human labor worldwide costs US $66 trillion per year and is growing at 5% per year. We should expect the investment in technology to be on this order. Call it AGI if you want, but there is no well defined "human level" threshold to cross. -- Matt Mahoney, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------- 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=106510220-47b225 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
