You have completely left out the human element or friendly-type appeal
How about a AGI personal assistant / tutor / PR interface
Everyone should have one
The market would be virtually unlimited ...
John L
www.ethicalvalues.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt Mahoney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 6:34 PM
Subject: Re: Two goals of AGI (was Re: [agi] Re: [OpenCog] Re:
Proprietary_Open_Source)
--- On Thu, 9/18/08, Trent Waddington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 7:54 AM, Matt Mahoney
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Perhaps there are some applications I haven't
thought of?
Bahahaha.. Gee, ya think?
So perhaps you could name some applications of AGI that don't fall into
the categories of (1) doing work or (2) augmenting your brain?
A third one occurred to me: launching a self improving or evolving AGI to
consume all available resources, i.e. an intelligent worm or self
replicating nanobots. This really isn't a useful application, but I'm sure
somebody, somewhere, might think it would be really cool to see if it
would launch a singularity and/or wipe out all DNA based life.
Oh, I'm sure the first person to try it would take precautions like
inserting a self destruct mechanism that activates after some number of
replications. (The 1988 Morris worm had software intended to slow its
spread, but it had a bug). Or maybe they will be like the scientists who
believed that the idea of a chain reaction in U-235 was preposterous...
(Thankfully, the scientists who actually built the first atomic pile took
some precautions, such as standing by with an axe to cut a rope suspending
a cadmium control rod in case things got out of hand. They got lucky
because of an unanticipated phenomena in which a small number of nuclei
had delayed fission, which made the chain reaction much easier to
control).
-- Matt Mahoney, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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