Re: [agi] Reality

2018-08-02 Thread Matt Mahoney via AGI
On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 3:43 PM Steve Richfield via AGI wrote: > Should we be: > > 1. hiring otherwise-homeless people to drive cars, or > 2. have computers drive our cars and tax the computers to support the > homeless, or > 3. ignore what technology is doing to our society and just let

Re: [agi] Reality

2018-08-02 Thread Steve Richfield via AGI
Rob, Should we be: 1. hiring otherwise-homeless people to drive cars, or 2. have computers drive our cars and tax the computers to support the homeless, or 3. ignore what technology is doing to our society and just let Darwin do his ugly thing to the homeless? I get your point about using

Re: [agi] Reality

2018-08-02 Thread Nanograte Knowledge Technologies via AGI
Quite happy to discuss AGI. I've been thinking, if we could truly mainstream self-driving cars by resolving the remaining issues hampering its maturity, it would be a significant step forward towards achieving AGI feasibility. Should AGI researchers be pooling their talent to that purpose,

Re: [agi] Reality

2018-08-02 Thread Matt Mahoney via AGI
I disagree with most of this. On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 7:31 PM Steve Richfield via AGI wrote: > My AGI-related interest here springs from my observation that nearly > everything people expect from an AGI: > 1. Is well within human problem solving ability. No. Machines already do many things