From: Matt Mahoney (matmahoney@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Feb 11 2008 - 17:40:34 MST
--- "Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" <sentience@pobox.com> wrote:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI-complete
>
> Why go to all the trouble of building an AI? Why not just build a
> natural-language-understander that compiles English requests to
> programs, and then type into the prompt, "Please make an AI"?
>
> The English-to-program-compiler is hence AI-complete, meaning that if
> you can build it, you can build an AI - hence you shouldn't expect it
> to be any easier than AI.
>
> Similarly, building an AI that knows what you "really mean" by
> "Friendly" when you type "Please make a Friendly AI" at the prompt, is
> FAI-complete, and not any easier than building a Friendly AI.
Which reduces to a data compression problem.
http://cs.fit.edu/~mmahoney/compression/rationale.html
-- Matt Mahoney, matmahoney@yahoo.com
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