Although, I note, I know a really good baker who makes great cakes in spite of the fact that she does not eat sugar and hence does not ever taste most of the stuff she makes...
But she *used to* eat sugar, so to an extent she can go on memory Sorta like how Beethoven kept composing after he went deaf, I suppose ;-) On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 9:42 PM, Ben Goertzel <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ahhh... ***that's*** why everyone always hates my cakes!!! I never > realized you were supposed to **taste** the stuff ... I thought it was just > supposed to look funky after you throw it in somebody's face ;-) > > > On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 9:31 PM, Philip Hunt <[email protected]>wrote: > >> 2008/12/20 Ben Goertzel <[email protected]>: >> > >> > 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... >> >> A sense of taste would probably help too. >> >> -- >> Philip Hunt, <[email protected]> >> 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 > [email protected] > > "I intend to live forever, or die trying." > -- Groucho Marx > > -- Ben Goertzel, PhD CEO, Novamente LLC and Biomind LLC Director of Research, SIAI [email protected] "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
