Ed Porter wrote:
I do not claim the software architecture for AGI has been totally solved. But I believe that enough good AGI approaches exist (and I think Novamente is one) that when powerful hardware available to more people we will be able to relatively quickly get systems up and running that demonstrate the parts of the problems we have solved. And that will provide valuable insights and test beds for solving the parts of the problem that we have not yet solved.
You are not getting my point. What you just said was EXACTLY what was said in 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973 ......2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 ......
And every time it was said, the same justification for the claim was given: "I just have this belief that it will work".
Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme fubar.
With regard to your statement "the problem is understanding HOW TO DO IT" --- WE DO UNDERSTAND HOW TO DO IT --- NOT ALL OF IT --- AND NOT HOW TO MAKE IT ALL WORK TOGETHER WELL AUTOMATICALLY --- BUT --- GIVEN THE TYPE OF HARDWARE EXPECTED TO COST LESS THAN $3M IN 6 YEARS --- WE KNOW HOW TO BUILD MUCH OF IT --- ENOUGH THAT WE COULD PROVIDE EXTREMELY VALUABLE COMPUTERS WITH OUR CURRENT UNDERSTANDINGS.
You do *not* understand how to do it. But I have to say that statements like your paragraph above are actually very good for my health, because their humor content is right up there in the top ten, along with Eddie Izzard's Death Star Canteen sketch and Stephen Colbert at the 2006 White House Correspondents' Association Dinner.
So long as the general response to the complex systems problem is not "This could be a serious issue, let's put our heads together to investigate it", but "My gut feeling is that this is just not going to be a problem", or "Quit rocking the boat!", you can bet that nobody really wants to ask any questions about whether the approaches are correct, they just want to be left alone to get on with their approaches. History, I think, will have some interesting things to say about all this.
Good luck anyway. Richard Loosemore ------------------------------------------- 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
