Re: The real reasons we don’t have AGI yet

2012-10-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
of outsiders with very different backgrounds can yield surprising insights. But I don’t think this is one of those times. In fact, I think Deutsch’s perspective on AGI is badly mistaken, and if widely adopted, would slow down progress toward AGI dramatically. The real reasons we don’t have AGI yet

Re: [foar] Re: The real reasons we don’t have AGI yet

2012-10-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 09 Oct 2012, at 20:39, Stephen P. King wrote: On 10/9/2012 12:28 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 09 Oct 2012, at 13:22, Stephen P. King wrote: On 10/9/2012 2:16 AM, meekerdb wrote: On 10/8/2012 3:49 PM, Stephen P. King wrote: Hi Russell, Question: Why has little if any thought been

Re: [foar] Re: The real reasons we don’t have AGI yet

2012-10-09 Thread meekerdb
On 10/8/2012 3:49 PM, Stephen P. King wrote: Hi Russell, Question: Why has little if any thought been given in AGI to self-modeling and some capacity to track the model of self under the evolutionary transformations? It's probably because AI's have not needed to operate in environments

Re: The real reasons we don’t have AGI yet

2012-10-09 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
On 08.10.2012 20:45 Alberto G. Corona said the following: Deutsch is right about the need to advance in Popperian epistemology, which ultimately is evolutionary epistemology. You may want to read Three Worlds by Karl Popper. Then you see where to Popperian epistemology can evolve. “To sum

Re: The real reasons we don’t have AGI yet

2012-10-09 Thread Alberto G. Corona
2012/10/9 Evgenii Rudnyi use...@rudnyi.ru: On 08.10.2012 20:45 Alberto G. Corona said the following: Deutsch is right about the need to advance in Popperian epistemology, which ultimately is evolutionary epistemology. You may want to read Three Worlds by Karl Popper. Then you see where to

Re: [foar] Re: The real reasons we don’t have AGI yet

2012-10-09 Thread Stephen P. King
On 10/9/2012 2:16 AM, meekerdb wrote: On 10/8/2012 3:49 PM, Stephen P. King wrote: Hi Russell, Question: Why has little if any thought been given in AGI to self-modeling and some capacity to track the model of self under the evolutionary transformations? It's probably because AI's

Re: The real reasons we don’t have AGI yet

2012-10-09 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 08 Oct 2012, at 20:50, Craig Weinberg wrote: Deutsch is right. Deutsch is not completely wrong, just unaware of the progress in theoretical computer science, which explains why some paths are necessarily long, and can help to avoid the confusion between consciousness, intelligence,

Re: The real reasons we don’t have AGI yet

2012-10-09 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 08 Oct 2012, at 23:39, Russell Standish wrote: On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 01:13:35PM -0400, Richard Ruquist wrote: The real reasons we don’t have AGI yet A response to David Deutsch’s recent article on AGI October 8, 2012 by Ben Goertzel Thanks for posting this, Richard. I was thinking

Re: [foar] Re: The real reasons we don’t have AGI yet

2012-10-09 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 09 Oct 2012, at 08:16, meekerdb wrote: On 10/8/2012 3:49 PM, Stephen P. King wrote: Hi Russell, Question: Why has little if any thought been given in AGI to self-modeling and some capacity to track the model of self under the evolutionary transformations? It's probably because

Re: The real reasons we don’t have AGI yet

2012-10-09 Thread Alberto G. Corona
then this is the perfect condition for a foundation of eplistemology, and an absolute meaning of truth. 2012/10/9 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be: On 08 Oct 2012, at 23:39, Russell Standish wrote: On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 01:13:35PM -0400, Richard Ruquist wrote: The real reasons we don’t have AGI yet A response

Re: [foar] Re: The real reasons we don’t have AGI yet

2012-10-09 Thread meekerdb
On 10/9/2012 4:22 AM, Stephen P. King wrote: On 10/9/2012 2:16 AM, meekerdb wrote: On 10/8/2012 3:49 PM, Stephen P. King wrote: Hi Russell, Question: Why has little if any thought been given in AGI to self-modeling and some capacity to track the model of self under the evolutionary

Re: [foar] Re: The real reasons we don’t have AGI yet

2012-10-09 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 09 Oct 2012, at 13:22, Stephen P. King wrote: On 10/9/2012 2:16 AM, meekerdb wrote: On 10/8/2012 3:49 PM, Stephen P. King wrote: Hi Russell, Question: Why has little if any thought been given in AGI to self-modeling and some capacity to track the model of self under the

Re: [foar] Re: The real reasons we don’t have AGI yet

2012-10-09 Thread Stephen P. King
On 10/9/2012 12:01 PM, meekerdb wrote: On 10/9/2012 4:22 AM, Stephen P. King wrote: On 10/9/2012 2:16 AM, meekerdb wrote: On 10/8/2012 3:49 PM, Stephen P. King wrote: Hi Russell, Question: Why has little if any thought been given in AGI to self-modeling and some capacity to track the

Re: [foar] Re: The real reasons we don’t have AGI yet

2012-10-09 Thread Stephen P. King
On 10/9/2012 12:28 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 09 Oct 2012, at 13:22, Stephen P. King wrote: On 10/9/2012 2:16 AM, meekerdb wrote: On 10/8/2012 3:49 PM, Stephen P. King wrote: Hi Russell, Question: Why has little if any thought been given in AGI to self-modeling and some capacity to

Re: The real reasons we don’t have AGI yet

2012-10-09 Thread Russell Standish
Maybe I will take you up on this - I think my uni library card expired years ago, and its a PITA to renew. However, since one doesn't need a mind to be creative (and my interest is actually in mindless creative processes), I'm not sure exactly how relevant something titled Mechanism of Mind it

Re: The real reasons we don’t have AGI yet

2012-10-09 Thread Kim Jones
It just may provide you that flash of insight you hanker for; that's my grand hope, anyway. here's a snippet: There may be no reason to say something until after it has been said. Once it has been said a context develops to support it, and yet it would never have been produced by a context.

The real reasons we don’t have AGI yet

2012-10-08 Thread Richard Ruquist
The real reasons we don’t have AGI yet A response to David Deutsch’s recent article on AGI October 8, 2012 by Ben Goertzel (Credit: iStockphoto) As we noted in a recent post, physicist David Deutsch said the field of “artificial general intelligence” or AGI has made “no progress whatever during

Re: The real reasons we don’t have AGI yet

2012-10-08 Thread John Clark
How David Deutsch can watch a computer beat the 2 best human Jeopardy! players on planet Earth and then say that AI has made “no progress whatever during the entire six decades of its existence” is a complete mystery to me. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed

Re: The real reasons we don’t have AGI yet

2012-10-08 Thread Stephen P. King
On 10/8/2012 1:13 PM, Richard Ruquist wrote: except from /The real reasons we don’t have AGI yet/ A response to David Deutsch’s recent article on AGI October 8, 2012 by Ben Goertzel So in this view, the main missing ingredient in AGI so far is “cognitive synergy”: the fitting-together

Re: The real reasons we don’t have AGI yet

2012-10-08 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Deutsch is right about the need to advance in Popperian epistemology, which ultimately is evolutionary epistemology. How evolution makes a portion of matter ascertain what is truth in virtue of what and for what purpose. The idea of intelligence need a knowledge of what is truth but also a motive

Re: The real reasons we don’t have AGI yet

2012-10-08 Thread Craig Weinberg
Deutsch is right. Searle is right. Genuine AGI can only come when thoughts are driven by feeling and will rather than programmatic logic. It's a fundamental misunderstanding to assume that feeling can be generated by equipment which is incapable of caring about itself. Without personal

Re: The real reasons we don’t have AGI yet

2012-10-08 Thread meekerdb
On 10/8/2012 11:45 AM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: Deutsch is right about the need to advance in Popperian epistemology, which ultimately is evolutionary epistemology. How evolution makes a portion of matter ascertain what is truth in virtue of what and for what purpose. The idea of intelligence

Re: The real reasons we don’t have AGI yet

2012-10-08 Thread Russell Standish
On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 01:13:35PM -0400, Richard Ruquist wrote: The real reasons we don’t have AGI yet A response to David Deutsch’s recent article on AGI October 8, 2012 by Ben Goertzel Thanks for posting this, Richard. I was thinking of writing my own detailed response to David

Re: [foar] Re: The real reasons we don’t have AGI yet

2012-10-08 Thread Stephen P. King
On 10/8/2012 5:39 PM, Russell Standish wrote: On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 01:13:35PM -0400, Richard Ruquist wrote: The real reasons we don’t have AGI yet A response to David Deutsch’s recent article on AGI October 8, 2012 by Ben Goertzel Thanks for posting this, Richard. I was thinking

Re: [foar] Re: The real reasons we don’t have AGI yet

2012-10-08 Thread Russell Standish
On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 06:49:12PM -0400, Stephen P. King wrote: Hi Russell, Question: Why has little if any thought been given in AGI to self-modeling and some capacity to track the model of self under the evolutionary transformations? Its not my field - general evolutionary

Re: [foar] Re: The real reasons we don’t have AGI yet

2012-10-08 Thread Stephen P. King
On 10/8/2012 7:37 PM, Russell Standish wrote: On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 06:49:12PM -0400, Stephen P. King wrote: Hi Russell, Question: Why has little if any thought been given in AGI to self-modeling and some capacity to track the model of self under the evolutionary transformations? Its

Re: The real reasons we don’t have AGI yet

2012-10-08 Thread Kim Jones
Please, please read Edward de Bono's book The Mechanism of Mind for some genuine insights into creativity and how this comes about in mind. Russell if you can't track down a copy I'll lend you mine but it's a treasured object, not least because of the fact that the author autographed it! On