Steve, Capable and effective AI systems would be very helpful at every step of the research process. Basic research is a major area I think that AGI will be applied to. In fact, that's exactly where I plan to apply it first.
Dave On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 7:25 AM, Steve Richfield <[email protected]>wrote: > Ben, > > On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 1:07 PM, Ben Goertzel <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> I'm speaking there, on Ai applied to life extension; and participating in >> a panel discussion on narrow vs. general AI... >> >> Having some interest, expertise, and experience in both areas, I find it > hard to imagine much interplay at all. > > The present challenge is wrapped up in a lack of basic information, > resulting from insufficient funds to do the needed experiments. > Extrapolations have already gone WAY beyond the data, and new methods to > push extrapolations even further wouldn't be worth nearly as much as just a > little more hard data. > > Just look at Aubrey's long list of aging mechanisms. We don't now even know > which predominate, or which cause others. Further, there are new candidates > arising every year, e.g. Burzynski's theory that most aging is secondary to > methylation of DNA receptor sites, or my theory that Aubrey's entire list > could be explained by people dropping their body temperatures later in life. > There are LOTS of other theories, and without experimental results, there is > absolutely no way, AI or not, to sort the wheat from the chaff. > > Note that one of the front runners, the cosmic ray theory, could easily be > tested by simply raising some mice in deep tunnels. This is high-school > level stuff, yet with NO significant funding for aging research, it remains > undone. > > Note my prior posting explaining my inability even to find a source of > "used" mice for kids to use in high-school anti-aging experiments, all while > university labs are now killing their vast numbers of such mice. So long as > things remain THIS broken, anything that isn't part of the solution simply > becomes a part of the very big problem, AIs included. > > The best that an AI could seemingly do is to pronounce "Fund and facilitate > basic aging research" and then suspend execution pending an interrupt > indicating that the needed experiments have been done. > > Could you provide some hint as to where you are going with this? > > Steve > > *agi* | Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/> | > Modify<https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;>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
