Interesting conversation. I wanted to suggest something about how an AGI might be qualitatively different from human. One possible difference could be an overriding thoroughness. People generally don't put in the effort to consider all the possibilities in the decisions they make, but computers and computer programs are just easier at looking at things thoroughly, because they don't get tired. Deep Blue vs. Kasparov comes to mind, I guess, but chess programs in general in there just relentless thoroughness. They don't make the kinds of simple mistakes the people, or at least I for one, do. And another example is that unusual proof of the equilateral triangles. It was the kind of thing people wouldn't think of, but if you go through all combinations, you might see. So they might tend to find nifty hidden little possibilities, that wouldn't normally occur to people who tend to focus with certain viewpoints.
Of course, people get a lot out of making little mistakes and finding unexpected bonuses. I would expect that an AGI would need to have an ability to try things that aren't clearly correct, but whereas people do them by accident, it might be that an AGI considers the consequences first, but decides to interject some randomness for some reason "intentionally". This also might be a qualitative difference. And a tendency to have a lot less carelessness and variation when desired seems to be quite different from a human type of intelligence, but this leads to an interesting question. Isn't the imperfection and variation central to what we mean by intelligence? Because for any question, you can find good answers, and bad answers, and sometimes brilliant answers that at first look like bad answers. And I've said it before, but it bears repeating in this context. Real intelligence requires that mistakes be made. And that's at odds with regular programming, because you are trying to write programs that don't make mistakes, so I have to wonder how serious people really would be about pursuing intelligence in a machine if they really knew what's involved. andi ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=108809214-a0d121 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
