On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 01:13:35PM -0400, Richard Ruquist wrote: > The real reasons we don’t have AGI yet > A response to David Deutsch’s recent article on AGI > October 8, 2012 by Ben Goertzel > >
Thanks for posting this, Richard. I was thinking of writing my own detailed response to David Deutsch's op ed, but Ben Goertzel has done such a good job, I now don't have to! My response, similar to Ben's is that David does not convincingly explain why Popperian epistemology is the "secret sauce". In fact, it is not even at all obvious how to practically apply Popperian epistemology to the task at hand. Until some more detailed practical proposal is put forward, the best I can say is, meh, I'll believe it when it happens. The problem that exercises me (when I get a chance to exercise it) is that of creativity. David Deutsch correctly identifies that this is one of the main impediments to AGI. Yet biological evolution is a creative process, one for which epistemology apparently has no role at all. Continuous, open-ended creativity in evolution is considered the main problem in Artificial Life (and perhaps other fields). Solving it may be the work of a single moment of inspiration (I wish), but more likely it will involve incremental advances in topics such as information, complexity, emergence and other such partly philosophical topics before we even understand what it means for something to be open-ended creative. Popperian epistemology, to the extent it has a role, will come much further down the track. Cheers -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
