What's needed for AI (was: Introducing myself)

From: Sam Kennedy (sam_rk@bellsouth.net)
Date: Tue Apr 02 2002 - 22:21:52 MST


What's needed for true, singularity-quality AI isn't more people to make a new AI engine. What's needed is for a new
innovation to be made. That one innovation which will push AI over the edge we all await. It could also be an entire
system of innovations. What about this:

1) Make a AI system which can modify itself

2) Make a system which can judge how "human", or aware, another entity is

3) Use input from system 2 to better system 1.

System 2 is the most important one, according to the enormous authority of my random thoughts. Something that needs to
be made is something basically the reverse of the Turing Test.

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Sam Kennedy
4/2/02 11:09:03 PM, Nathan Russell <nrussell@acsu.buffalo.edu> wrote:
>At 09:50 PM 4/1/2002 -0500, "Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" <sentience@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>>Starting on real AI takes programmers working together in the same physical
>>location, full time, and extended orientation sessions that would suck up
>>tremendous time if I had to repeat them independently for each recruit.
>
>I might point out that Linux was started by a full-time student who had met 
>essentially none of the folks he ended up working with.  It's still the 
>case that the majority of the folks in kernel development are occupied 
>elsewhere full-time, and meet only possibly at infrequent conferences, etc.
>
>Granted, AI is more complex than Linux, but how much so?
>
>Nathan
>
>


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