From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@www.aeiveos.com)
Date: Mon Aug 23 1999 - 11:07:03 MDT
On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, O'Regan, Emlyn wrote:
> Robert Bradbury wrote:
> > What I should have said was: *no* business will ever fund the
> > development of self-replicating factories for *its* business.
> >
> > So you won't see the DESIGNERS designing a DESIGNER factory factory.
> >
> By this logic, real AI will never emerge.
That is a good point! I think the difference with AI is that
we have a case where we are trying to figure out *how* to
build a DESIGNER factory factory, without often considering the
consequences of that [other than many dicussions in this group].
Its also true that most AI research isn't done by a *business*.
The AI research which is done by a business is usually done
in the framework of "limited"-I, i.e. I want a widget that
understands speech, conventional programming does a pretty
poor job, lets try another approach. There are people who
would dearly love to have a programmer factory factory,
they are called "managers", but you can be pretty sure
that the "manager" doesn't want a manager factory factory.
Robert
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