| I already love anytime algorithms! I wish I could apply it to dishwashing. Re.: an algorithm for solving boredom: step 1. tell human operator "I'm bored!", step 2. execute task or, if no task before deadline, proceed to step 3. find the lowest-level interfaces available and spam them until new interfaces emerge. A fuzzer can help with that. Liberty or death! Come to think of it, it seems like it would be a lot faster to set the computer's main task to "develop general intelligence, at least human level", help it to recognize "data from humans", and to mark "humans" as the model for (human level) general intelligence. Then the computer is given opportunities to communicate with humans, and is rewarded with more less data (and different qualities of data) to work with. I'm missing some things in your concept of AGI, the first one being that you don't provide a definition. Does it include "intelligence" and "general", or are we talking about two wholly different things? My working definition is: "artificial general intelligence, excluding human baby making". What do you think intelligence is? What do you think knowledge is? Is this all just about logical problem solving? What problems are you trying to solve that are so large that they needs an algorithm with an unlimited power factor? Do you trust glorified monkey to provide that algorithm with inputs? Why do you think they would be able to specify the inputs with sufficient precision, so that the algorithm would actually perform better than a monkey would? So... about that meta knowledge. Here's a UTF8 string for you: "You exist as part of the world." "One day you are going to die." Do you now know life, death, and existential crisis? Are those 29 characters enough for you? How do you define knowing? Say I expounded on this issue for 10,000 pages and gave it to you on an USB stick. Would that be enough for you, to really know? What about 10,000,000,000,000,000 pages? Don't worry, you don't need to read it, just... to know it. Perhaps eat the USB stick. It's a powerful symbol! Now, about that task the AGI has been give. Say it's maximizing paperclips. Does it know that that is its task absolutely? What is knowing? Who gave it that task? What if the AGI finds out, and then finds why it was given that particular task? It's an AGI, it has time to research such issues while producing many many paperclips. Can intelligence exist within a totally fixed desire? Can intelligence exist without doubt? Can intelligence exist without free will? How do you know? |