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Where will artificial general intelligence come from?

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shagie wrote: post #20
visarga wrote: post #8

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It's called the self driving car - an AI that interacts with the world. It will be a launching pad to other AI agents.

At a more general level, you may find the book Society of the Mind interesting ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_Mind ). In this, Minsky proposes simple (mindless) agents that then are combined together to form a mind. That our mind is interacting with the world and launching agents to deal with things - that our own mind may be built this way. Yes, its a bit old (1986) and the current machine learning techn…

Interesting read...I actually came to this very conclusion after an amazing mushroom trip when I was watching the movie "her". I actually drew schematics of how I envisioned the whole system would work lol.

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Post by nurettin »

cgmg wrote: post #153
nurettin wrote: post #100

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>> Second, and related, the abstract mathematical nature of intelligence is well-understood and the human brain must be an expression of that. That's nice, but whenever I researched, I only got vague explanations involving recursion and unicorns.

Hutter, Schmidhuber, et al. have done some very interesting work on this: https://arxiv.org/abs/0712.3329

Thanks for taking the time to dig this out, appreciated. I've been reviewing it this morning. The formulas presented in the "measuring success part" so far, though interesting, seem to be arbitrary. For example the question of whether an agent should research for efficiency or pick the low hanging fruits for short time benefit is answered through a simple sum formula. Another example is when the author(s) state that universal intelligence should favor simpler choices and interact with the environment to cause less complexity. Well that's obvious! Just use a binary inverse logarithmic distributive operator. With the comical response to criticisms part (starting from 5.2) I feel like I'm in a Douglas Adams movie.
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