Actually if you are serious about solving a political or social question then what you really need is CRESS <http://cress.soc.surrey.ac.uk/web/home>. The solution of World Hunger is BTW a political question not a technical one. Hunger is largely due to bad governance in the Third World. How do you get good governance. One way to look at the problem is via CRESS and run simulations in second life.
One thing which has in fact struck me in my linguistic researches is this. Google Translate is based on having Gigabytes of bilingual text. The fact that GT is so bad at technical Arabic indicates the absence of such bilingual text. Indeed Israel publishes more papers than the whole of the Islamic world. This is of profound importance for understanding the Middle East. I am sure CRESS would confirm this. AGI would without a doubt approach political questions by examining all the data about the various countries before making a conclusion. AGI would probably be what you would consult for long term solutions. It might not be so good at dealing with something (say) like the Gaza flotilla. In coing to this conclusion I have the University of Surrey and CRESS in mind. - Ian Parker On 26 June 2010 14:36, John G. Rose <[email protected]> wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Ian Parker [mailto:[email protected]] > > > > > > How do you solve World Hunger? Does AGI have to. I think if it is truly > "G" it > > has to. One way would be to find out what other people had written on the > > subject and analyse the feasibility of their solutions. > > > > > > Yes, that would show the generality of their AGI theory. Maybe a particular > AGI might be able to work with some problems but plateau out on its > intelligence for whatever reason and not be able to work on more > sophisticated issues. An AGI could be "hardcoded" perhaps and not improve > much, whereas another AGI might improve to where it could tackle vast > unknowns at increasing efficiency. There are common components in tackling > unknowns, complexity classes for example, but some AGI systems may operate > significantly more efficiently and improve. Human brains at some point may > plateau without further augmentation though I'm not sure we have come close > to what the brain is capable of. > > John > > > > ------------------------------------------- > 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 > ------------------------------------------- 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
