I think some confusion occurs where AGI researchers want to build an artificial person verses artificial general intelligence. An AGI might be just a computational model running in software that can solve problems across domains. An artificial person would be much else in addition to AGI.
With intelligence engineering and other engineering that artificial person could be built, or some interface where it appears to be a person. And a huge benefit is in having artificial people to do things that real people do. But pursuing AGI need not have to be pursuit of building artificial people. Also, an AGI need not have to be able to solve ALL problems initially. Coming out and asking why some AGI theory wouldn't be able to figure out how to solve some problem like say, world hunger, I mean WTF is that? John From: Mike Tintner [mailto:tint...@blueyonder.co.uk] Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 5:33 AM To: agi Subject: [agi] The problem with AGI per Sloman "One of the problems of AI researchers is that too often they start off with an inadequate understanding of the problems and believe that solutions are only a few years away. We need an educational system that not only teaches techniques and solutions, but also an understanding of problems and their difficulty - which can come from a broader multi-disciplinary education. That could speed up progress." A. Sloman (& who else keeps saying that?) agi | <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now> Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/> | <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> Modify Your Subscription <http://www.listbox.com> ------------------------------------------- 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=8660244-6e7fb59c Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
