> Most compression tests are like defining intelligence as the ability to > catch mice. They measure the ability of compressors to compress specific > files. This tends to lead to hacks that are tuned to the benchmarks. For the > generic intelligence test, all you know about the source is that it has a > Solomonoff distribution (for a particular machine). I don't know how you > could make the test any more generic.
IMO the test is *too* generic ... I don't think real-world AGI is mainly about being able to recognize totally general patterns in totally general datasets. I suspect that to do that, the best approach is ultimately going to be some AIXItl variant ... meaning it's a problem that's not really solvable using a real-world amount of resources. I suspect that all the AGI system one can really build are SO BAD at this general problem, that it's better to characterize AGI systems -- NOT in terms of how well they do at this general problem but rather -- in terms of what classes of datasets/environments they are REALLY GOOD at recognizing patterns in I think the environments existing in the real physical and social world are drawn from a pretty specific probability distribution (compared to say, the universal prior), and that for this reason, looking at problems of compression or pattern recognition across general program spaces without real-world-oriented biases, is not going to lead to real-world AGI. The important parts of AGI design are the ones that (directly or indirectly) reflect the specific distribution of problems that the reeal world presents an AGI system. And this distribution is **really hard** to encapsulate in a text compression database. Because, we don't know what this distribution is. And this is why we should be working on AGI systems that interact with the real physical and social world, or the most accurate simulations of it we can build. -- Ben G ------------------------------------------- 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
