--- On Thu, 9/18/08, Ben Goertzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Lets distinguish between the two major goals of AGI. The first is to >>automate the economy. The second is to become immortal through uploading. > >Peculiarly, you are leaving out what to me is by far the most important and >interesting goal: > >The creation of beings far more intelligent than humans yet benevolent toward >humans
That's what I mean by an automated economy. Google is already more intelligent than any human at certain tasks. So is a calculator. Both are benevolent. They differ in the fraction of our tasks that they can do for us. When that fraction is 100%, that's AGI. >>The first goal does not require any major breakthroughs in AI theory, just >>lots of work. If you have a lot of narrow AI and an infrastructure for >>routing natural language messages to the right experts, then you have AGI. >Then you have a hybrid human/artificial intelligence, which does not fully >automate the economy, but only partially does so -- it still relies on human >experts. If humans are to remain in control of AGI, then we have to make informed, top level decisions. You can call this work if you want. But if we abdicate all thinking to machines, then where does that leave us? -- Matt Mahoney, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------- 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=114414975-3c8e69 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
