At the current time, almost all AGI projects are still working on conceptual design issues, and the systems developed are just prototypes, so software engineering is not that much relevant. In the future, when most of the theoretical problems have been solved, especially when it becomes clear that one approach is going to lead us to AGI, software engineering will become really relevant.
The existing "AI applications" are not that different from just "computer applications", for which software engineering is necessary, but there isn't much intelligence in them. BTW, in a sense "software engineering" is just the opposite of "artificial intelligence": while the latter tries to make machines to work as flexibly as humans, the former tries to make humans (programmers) to work as rigidly as machines. ;-) Pei On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 8:28 PM, Valentina Poletti <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a question for you AGIers.. from your experience as well as from your > background, how relevant do you think software engineering is in developing > AI software and, in particular AGI software? Just wondering.. does software > verification as well as correctness proving serve any use in this field? Or > is this something used just for Nasa and critical applications? > Valentina > ________________________________ > agi | Archives | Modify Your Subscription ------------------------------------------- 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
