Hi Ben. > OTOH, if one wants to go the virtual-robotics direction (as is my intuition), > then it is possible to bypass many of the lower-level perception/actuation > issues and focus on preschool-level learning, reasoning and conceptual > creation. And yet, in your paper (which I enjoyed), you emphasize the importance of not providing a simplistic environment (with the screwdriver example). Without facing the low-level sensory world (either through robotics or through very advanced simulations feeding senses essentially equivalent to those of humans), I wonder if a targeted "human-like" AGI will be able to acquire the necessary concepts that children absorb and use as much o f the metaphorical basis for their thought -- slippery, soft, hot, hard, rough, sharp, and on and on. I assume you have some sort of middle ground in mind... what's your thinking about how much you can "cheat" in this way (beyond that of what is conveniently doable I mean)? Thanks!
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