Good question. But I tend to think the problem is less about plasticity and more about specialization. As we've seen, specialized (artificial) intelligence is relatively easy, compare termites to humans. So-called general intelligence (or universal constructors) is much harder. The distance between any old TM and a UTM seems quite large.
Whether, once specialized, an AI can generalize is an open question. Will we *grow* general AI? Or will we construct it from scratch to be general? On 10/30/2017 01:12 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > But will this be true of AIs as well? Assuming that this fossilization > occurs, is that a human idiosyncrasy that plasticity reduces? Perhaps it > could be treated with drugs, electroshock therapy, stem cells, PTSD > medication, etc.? -- ☣ gⅼеɳ ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
