For decades I have always imagined that my dream machine would be able to not only talk to me in a conversational manner, but be able to generate real time video, like that in a coherent documentary or a movie, that is context appropriate to my discussion with it. I have always imagined that I would have the same, or better access, to its visual imagination as I do to my own.
So, yes, you are right, sophisticated audio visual interfaces will be an important part of AGI, and they will not just involve narrow AI. This is because the generation of imagined visual scenes, and processes of selecting what is appropriate to communicate at which point and in what order in a given interaction with a human will involve many of the skills involved in naturally language understanding. I also believe that it is quite possible that, as we better understand the mind, we will understand how to better and more rapidly communicate visual information to humans. Ed Porter -----Original Message----- From: Derek Zahn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 11:03 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [agi] The Future of AGI Although a lot of AI-type research focuses on natural language interfaces between computer systems and their human users, computers have the ability to create visual images (which people can't do in real-time beyond gestures and facial expressions). Building computer systems that generate pictures or videos as their way of communicating with us could be a very lucrative addition to computer applications that include cognitive models of their users (instead of focusing solely on generating natural language), because most of us do process visual information so well. This is really narrow AI I suppose, though it's kind of on the borderline. It does seem like one of the ways to commercialize incremental progress toward AGI. Derek Zahn supermodelling.net _____ agi | <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now> Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/> | <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; 0> Modify Your Subscription <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=120640061-aded06 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
