On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 3:37 AM, Matt Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Another possibility is that we will discover some low cost shortcut to AGI. > Recursive self improvement is one example, but I showed that this won't work. > (See http://www.mattmahoney.net/rsi.pdf ). So far no small group (or even a > large group like Google) has produced AGI, in spite of efforts in this > direction > since the 1950's. In fact, there has been very little theoretical or practical > progress since 1965. It seems like if there was a simple way to do it, we > would > have figured it out by now. >
Hence the question: you are making a very strong assertion by effectively saying that there is no shortcut, period (in the short-term perspective, anyway). How sure are you in this assertion? -- Vladimir Nesov [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://causalityrelay.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------- 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
