In a previous post Eliezer referenced a good critique of Moore's Law:
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_11/tuomi/index.html
Assuming the facts presented in that paper, I agree with the
conclusions that Moore's Law was never a valid law. But I have researched
Moore's Law references on the Web
The term Artificial General Intelligence was introduced to me by Shane Legg,
when we were discussing possible titles for the Real AI (now AGI) edited
volume. [Shane worked at Webmind Inc., and later at A2I2, and will shortly
be joining IDSR in Switzerland to work with Marcus Hutter on
I don't know who coined the term AGI, but since in the psychological study
of human intelligence (e.g., IQ test and so on), the so-called general
factor has been discussed for many years by many people, it is quite
natural to introduce the concept into AI.
Though I do use the term AGI in
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From: Ben Goertzel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: RE: [agi] Q: Who coined AGI?
I guess most AI researchers consider AI to be inclusive of AGI and ASI.
That's Ok with me ... ASI is interesting too, though
Well, I agree that the current field of AI is way too broadly defined. It's
a heck of a grab-bag.
But I think there is more meaning to AI in general than A little AGI plus
a lot of computer science or What AI researchers do.
I'd break up the AI field into 4 categories as follows:
1) AGI
2)
