From: Michael Anissimov (michaelanissimov@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Aug 29 2006 - 21:05:26 MDT
Slawomir,
> Humans, like a car as an example of *a* thing that transports people, are just one
> of many possible implementation of intelligence. If someone wanted to build a
> machine whose purpose would be to have intelligence, what would its "engine", "the
> mechanism for transferring motion", and the "structure that houses all the parts of
> machine" be?
Mainly, sequence prediction:
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22sequence+prediction%22&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&btnG=Search
Coupled with a utility function, perceptual apparatus, and a set of
heuristics for preference ordering.
If you want the intelligence to be capable of self-modification, you
also need a reflective decision theory.
Best,
-- Michael Anissimov Lifeboat Foundation http://lifeboat.com http://acceleratingfuture.com/michael/blog
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Wed Jul 17 2013 - 04:00:57 MDT