Aleksei Riikonen wrote:
On 10/22/07, albert medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
My question is: AGI, as I perceive your explanation of it, is when a
computer gains/develops an ego and begins to consciously plot its own
existence and make its own decisions.
That would be one form of AGI, but it should also be possible to
create systems of human-equivalent and human-surpassing intelligence
that
(1) don't have instincts, goals or values of their own
Do you have any specific reason to believe that such a thing is
possible? I don't believe it is, though I'll admit that the goal-set of
an artificial intelligence might be very strange to a human.
and
(2) may not even be conscious, even though they carry out superhuman
cognitive processing (the possibility of this is not known yet, at
least to me)
I think you need to define your terms here. It isn't clear to me what
you are talking about when you talk about something which is engaging in
superhuman cognitive processing not being conscious. Having a non-local
consciousness I could ... not understand, but accept. I suspect that a
non-centralized consciousness may be necessary for an intelligence to be
very much superior to humans in cognitive processing. Non-local is
harder to understand, but may be necessary. But it's not clear to me
what you could mean when you talk about "not even be conscious, even
though they carry out superhuman cognitive processing". Consciousness
is one component of intelligence, it seems to occur at the interface
between mind an language, so I suspect that it's related to
serialization, and, perhaps, to the logging of memories.
Do you really believe that such a thing can happen?
Yes, but I think most of us would prefer potentially superhuman
systems to not have goals/etc of their own.
To me this sounds like wishing for a square circle. What we really want
is that the goals, etc. of the AI facilitate our own, or at minimum not
come into conflict with them. (Few would object if the AI wanted to
grant our every wish.)
If so, is this the phenomenon you are calling "singularity"?
These days people are referring to several different things when they
use this word. For an explanation of this, see:
http://www.singinst.org/blog/2007/09/30/three-major-singularity-schools/
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