Matt: Humor detection obviously requires a sophisticated language model and
knowledge of popular culture, current events, and what jokes have been told
before. Since entertainment is a big sector of the economy, an AGI needs all
human knowledge, not just knowledge that is work related.
In many ways, it was brave of you to pursue this idea, & the results are
fascinating. You see, there is one central thing you need in order to write
a joke. (Have you ever tried it? You must presumably in some respect). You
can't just logically, formulaically analyse those jokes - the common
ingredients of, say, the lightbulb jokes. When you write something - even
some logical extension, say, re how many plumbers it takes to change a light
bulb - the joke *has to strike you as funny." You have to laugh. It's the
only way to test the joke.
Obviously you have no plans for endowing your computer with a self and a
body, that has emotions and can shake with laughter. Or tears.
But what makes you laugh? The common ingredient of humour is human error. We
laugh at humans making mistakes - mistakes that were/are preventable. People
having their head stuck snootily in the air, and so falling on banana skins.
Mrs Malaprop mispronouncing, misconstruing big words while trying to look
clever, and refusing to admit her ignorance. And we laugh because we can
personally identify, because we've made those kinds of mistakes. They are a
fundamental and continuous part of our lives.(How will your AGI identify?)
So are AGI-ers *heroic* figures trying to be/produce giants, or are they
*comic* figures, like Don Quixote, who are in fact tilting at windmills, and
refusing even to check whether those windmill arms actually belong to
giants?
There isn't a purely logicomathematical way to decide that. It takes an
artistic as well as a scientific mentality involving not just whole
different parts of your brain, but different faculties and sensibilities -
all v. real, and not reducible to logic and maths. When you deal with AGI
problems - like the problem of AGI itself - you need them.
(You may think this all esoteric, but in fact, you need all those same
faculties to understand everything that is precious to you - the universe/
world/ society/ atoms/ genes / machines - & even logic & maths. But more of
that another time).
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agi
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