The problem of the emergent behavior already arises within a chess program which visits millions of chess positions within a second. I think the problem of the emergent behavior equals the fine tuning problem which I have already mentioned: We will know, that the main architecture of our AGI works. But in our first experiments we will observe a behavior of the AGI which we don't want to have. We will have several parameters which we can change. The big question will be: Which values of the parameters will let the AGI do the right things. This could be an important problem for the development of AGI because in my opinion the difference between a human and a monkey is only fine tuning. And nature needed millions of years for this fine tuning.
I think there is no way to avoid this problem but this problem is no show stopper. - Matthias Mike Tintner wrote: This is fine and interesting, but hasn't anybody yet read Kauffman's Reinventing the Sacred (publ this year)? The entire book is devoted to this theme and treats it globally, ranging from this kind of emergence in physics, to emergence/evolution of natural species, to emergence/deliberate creativity in the economy and human thinking. Kauffman systematically - and correctly - argues that the entire, current mechanistic worldview of science is quite inadequate to dealing with and explaining creativity in every form throughout the world and at every level of evolution. Kauffman also explicitly deals with the kind of problems AGI must solve if it is to be AGI. In fact, everything is interrelated here. Ben argues: "we are not trying to understand some natural system, we are trying to **engineer** systems " Well, yes, but how you get emergent physical properties of matter, and how you get species evolving from each other with "creative," scientifically unpredictable new organs and features , can be *treated* as design/engineering problems (even though, of course, nature was the "designer"). In fact, AGI *should* be doing this - should be understanding how its particular problem of getting a machine to be creative, fits in with the science-wide problem of understanding creativity in all its forms. The two are mutually enriching, (indeed mandatory when it comes to a) the human and animal brain's creativity and an AGI's and b) the evolution of the brain and the evolutionary path of AGI's). ------------------------------------------- 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
