> > It's an interesting idea, but I suspect it too will rapidly break down. > Which activities can be known about in a rich, better-than-blind-Cyc way > *without* a knowledge of objects and object manipulation? How can an agent > know about reading a book,for example, if it can't pick up and manipulate a > book? How can it know about adding and subtracting, if it can't literally > put objects on top of each other, and remove them? We humans build up our > knowledge of the world objects/physics up from infancy. Science also > insists that all formal scientific knowledge of the world - all scientific > disciplines - must be ultimately physics/objects-based. Is there really an > alternative? >
And just to be clear: in the AGI Preschool world I envision, picking up and manipulating and stacking objects, and so forth, *would* be possible. This much is not hard to achieve using current robot-simulator tech. ben ------------------------------------------- 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
