Well, that's a really easy example, right? For making tea, the answer would probably be yes.
Baking a cake is a harder example. An AGI trained in a virtual world could certainly follow a recipe to make a passable cake. But it would never learn to be a **really good** baker in the virtual world, unless the virtual world were fabulously realistic in its simulation (and we don't know how to make it that good, right now). Being a really good baker requires a lot of intuition for subtle physical properties of ingredients, not just following a recipe and knowing the primitive basics of naive physics... ben g On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 8:56 PM, Philip Hunt <cabala...@googlemail.com>wrote: > 2008/12/20 Ben Goertzel <b...@goertzel.org>: > > > >> > >> 3. to provide a "toy domain" for the AI to think about and become > >> proficient in. > > > > Not just to become proficient in the domain, but become proficient > > in general humanlike cognitive processes. > > > > The point of a preschool is that it's designed to present all important > > adult human cognitive processes in simplified forms. > > So it would be able to transfer its learning to the real world and > (when given a robot body) be able to go into a kitchen its never seen > before and make a cup of tea? (In other words, will the simulation be > deep enough to allow that). > > -- > Philip Hunt, <cabala...@googlemail.com> > Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. > See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html > > > ------------------------------------------- > 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 > -- Ben Goertzel, PhD CEO, Novamente LLC and Biomind LLC Director of Research, SIAI b...@goertzel.org "I intend to live forever, or die trying." -- Groucho Marx ------------------------------------------- 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=123753653-47f84b Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
