On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 7:29 PM, Brad Paulsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> [snip]  Unfortunately, as long as the mainstream AGI community continue to
> hang on to what should, by now, be a thoroughly-discredited strategy, we
> will never (or too late) achieve human-beneficial AGI.
>

What a strange rant! How can something that's never before been attempted be
considered "a thoroughly-discredited strategy"? I.e., creating an AI system
system designed for *general learning and reasoning* (one with AGI goals
clearly thought through to a greater degree than anyone has attempted
previously: http://opencog.org/wiki/OpenCogPrime:Roadmap ) and then
carefully and deliberately progressing that AI through Piagetan-inspired
inspired stages of learning and development, all the while continuing to
methodically improve the AI with ever more sophisticated software
development, cognitive algorithm advances (e.g. planned improvements to PLN
and MOSES/Reduct), reality modeling and testing iterations, homeostatic
system tuning, intelligence testing and metrics, etc.

One might well have said in early 1903 that the concept of powered flight
was "a thoroughly-discredited strategy." It's just as silly to say that now
[about Goertzel's approach to AGI] as it would have been to say it then
[about the Wright brothers' approach to flight].

-dave



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