Ben Goertzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi,On 11/6/06, James Ratcliff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> Ben,> I think it would be beneficial, at least to me, to see a list of tasks.> Not as a "defining" measure in any way. But as a list of work items that a> general AGI should be able to complete effectively.I agree, and I think that this requires a lot of care. Carefullyarticulating such a list is on my agenda for the first half of nextyear (not that it will take full-time for 6 months, it will be a"background task"). My approach will be based on porting a number ofbasic ideas from human developmental psychology into thenon-human-like-AGI-acting-in-a-simulation-world domain, but will alsobe useful beyond this particular domain...> My thoughts on a list like
this is that is should be marked in increasing> levels of difficulty, so an initial AGI should have the ability to complete> the first level of tasks and so on.Agreed, although most tasks will have the notion of "partialcompletion" rather than being binary in nature.> Ex: One item of AI task is a simple question answering ability, that can> respond with an answer currently in the Knowledge base of the system.> A more expansive item, would require the QA task to go and get outside> information.This seems not to be a very well-specified task ;-) ... the problem isthat it refers to the internal state of the AI system (its "knowledgebase"), whereas the tasks I will define will refer only to thesystem's external behaviors given various sets of stimuli...-- BenIm very focused here on its knowledge base as that is the main module I am working on. I am
priming it with a large amount of extracted information from news and other texts, and its first task will be able to answer basic questions, and model the knowledge correctly there, before it can go on into deeper areas of reasoning and behaviour. I want the internal state to have asomewhat stable start before it goes forward into other areas.How much of the Novamente system is meant to be autonomous, and how much will be responding only from external stymulus such as a question or a task given externally.Is it intended after awhile to run "on its own" where it would be up 24 hours a day, exploring potentially some by itself, or more of a contained AI to be called up as needed?James RatcliffThank YouJames Ratcliffhttp://falazar.com
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