2008/8/30 Ben Goertzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 10:06 AM, William Pearson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> >> 2008/8/29 Ben Goertzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> > >> > About recursive self-improvement ... yes, I have thought a lot about it, >> > but >> > don't have time to write a huge discourse on it here >> > >> > One point is that if you have a system with N interconnected modules, >> > you >> > can approach RSI by having the system separately think about how to >> > improve >> > each module. I.e. if there are modules A1, A2,..., AN ... then you can >> > for >> > instance hold A1,...,A(N-1) constant while you think about how to >> > improve >> > AN. One can then iterate through all the modules and improve them in >> > sequence. (Note that the modules are then doing the improving of each >> > other.) >> >> I'm not sure what you are getting at here... >> >> Is modification system implemented in a module (Ai)? If so how would >> evaluate whether a modification Ai, call it AI' did a better job? > > The modification system is implemented in a module (subject to > modification), but this is a small module, > which does most of its work by calling on other AI modules (also subject to > modification)... >
Isn't it an evolutionary stable strategy for the modification system module to change to a state where it does not change itself?1 Let me give you a just so story and you can tell me whether you think it likely. I'd be curious as to why you don't. Let us say the AI is trying to learn a different language (say french with its genders), so the system finds it is better to concentrate its change on the language modules as these need the most updating. So a modification to the modification module that completely concentrates the modifications on the language module should be the best at that time. But then it would be frozen forever and once the need to vary the language module was past it wouldn't be able to go back to modifying other modules. Short sighted I know, but I have yet to come across an RSI system that isn't either short sighted or limited to what it can prove. Will 1 Assuming there is no pressure on it for variation. ------------------------------------------- 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=111637683-c8fa51 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
