I think in the past there were always difficult technological problems leading to a conceptual controversy how to solve these problems. Time has always shown which approaches were successful and which were not successful.
The fact, that we have so many philosophical discussions show that we still are at the beginning. There is still no real evidence for a certain AGI approach to be a successful approach. Sorry, this is just my opinion. And this is the only(!!) reason why AGI doubters can still survive. I am no AGI doubter at all. In my opinion a lot of people want to make things more complicated than they are. AGI is possible! Proof: We exist. AGI is easy! Proof: Our genome is less than 1GB, i.e. less than your USB-stick. How much is need for our brain? Probably Windows Vista needs more memory than AGI. We always have to think about the huge computational and memory resources of the brain with massively concurrent computing. We can therefore assume that a lot of mythical things like creativity are nothing else than brute force giant database phenomena of the brain. Especially, before there isn't any evidence that things must be complicated we should assume that they are easy. The AGI community suffers from its own main assumption that AGI is difficult. For instance, things like Gödel' theorem etc are of no relevance at all. All we want to build is a finite system with a maximum number of applications. Gödel says absolutely nothing against this goal. Further problem: AGI approaches are often too much anthropomorphized approaches. (embodiment, natural language ,... sorry). - Matthias We need to work more on the foundations, to understand whether we are going in the right direction on at least good enough level to persuade other people (which is NOT good enough in itself, but barring that, who are we kidding). -- 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/?&; Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.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=117534816-b15a34 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
