From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Tue Jun 25 2002 - 10:06:46 MDT
Ben Goertzel wrote:
>
> Yes, creating an AGI is certainly an extremely hard problem!
>
> If we succeed in solving it, it will be a huge and incredible
> achievement.
>
> We'll spend at least 6 weeks on vacation,
And the first time machine will be built in 2123.
> and then set about collaborating with our AGI on building
> uploading-enabling and life-extension technology... ;>
Swatting a fly with a sledgehammer. But I digress.
> Building a spaceship to fly to the moon was also an extremely hard
> problem, as was arriving at the Standard Model in particle physics, as
> was understanding the genome well enough to do even the simple genetic
> engineering we can now do. The human race has solved some extremely hard
> problems before. Is this one (AGI design/engineering) harder than any
> of those? It's hard to compare, isn't it?
I didn't work on the moonshot or the Genome Project, but I think AI will
take substantially less money and substantially more intelligence to solve.
I could be wrong about the money part.
-- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://intelligence.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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