Thanks Ben, Nils and all who participated, I appreciate the thought enrichment, I have many trails to investigate after this.
I would enjoy it very much if, at some point, those of us interested could go "down that rabbit hole" of the hard problem of consciousness. And possibly to explore why it may, or may not, matter - if an artificial system is having an experience as we seem to, or if it is completely unaware, just flipping switches based on the position of other switches, so to speak. And why we even care... Lastly, a quick comment on "Intention": I have been working on the conversational ability of my robots for a few years, which was very limited at best. I have also played extensively with GPT-2, which improved its "conversational" ability, but also was prone to going off the rails. What made the biggest difference is giving the robot a hard-coded "intention" or goal for the conversation. This allowed it to redirect conversation to an expected direction and subject via more -or less- elegant segues, and prolonged the length of time a conversation continued to make reasonable sense before it got way off track. I think there's something to the idea of perhaps encoding systems with a group or hierarchy of goals for interaction, an artificial "intentionality", right out of the starting gate, if the goal of the robot creator is to have their robot interact in a more "human-like" fashion. Thanks again all, Dave -----Original Message----- From: 'Ben Goertzel' via opencog <open...@googlegroups.com> Sent: Thursday, September 9, 2021 4:10 PM To: AGI <agi@agi.topicbox.com>; opencog <open...@googlegroups.com> Subject: [opencog-dev] AGI discussion group, Sep 10 7AM Pacific: Characterizing and Implementing Human-Like Consciousness Theme for discussion this week: Characterizing and Implementing Human-Like Consciousness See https://wiki.opencog.org/w/AGI_Discussion_Forum#Sessions URL for video-chat: https://singularitynet.zoom.us/my/benbot ... Background reading: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/275541457_haracterizing_Human-like_Consciousness_An_Integrative_Approach Pretty soon we will have some new Hyperon design documents/ideas to discuss in the AGI Discussion Group -- lots of progress occurring on that front, but much of it not quite yet fully baked enough for public-ish discussion ... so for this session we're going to explore some highly relevant but more general topics... ;) On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 9:22 AM Mike Archbold <jazzbo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Is there a discussion tomorrow? > > On 8/16/21, magnuswootto...@gmail.com <magnuswootto...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Brute forcing is about reducing the search in a way, to spread it > > out further, the same amount of computation power. > > ------------------------------------------ > Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI > Permalink: > https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T5b614d3e3bb8e0da-Me75a2ed05b46ea5 > 198406b29 Delivery options: > https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription -- Ben Goertzel, PhD http://goertzel.org “He not busy being born is busy dying" -- Bob Dylan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "opencog" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to opencog+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/opencog/CACYTDBfnBV-29VTEBP3rr_WsEb_Wh0E%2B6n%3DsOCCmJi7bTSTtgQ%40mail.gmail.com. ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T5e30c339c3bfa713-M56f4269c9c12dccd457a9a96 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
