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Fortunately you don't have to write an AGI yourself. We have a very powerful tool called evolution that can do all the heavy lifting for us, we just have to set
by olegkikin 9y ago
Fortunately you don't have to write an AGI yourself. We have a very powerful tool called evolution that can do all the heavy lifting for us, we just have to set up the environment and the goals. I'm pretty sure we could create an AGI, given enough computational power and time, we're basically hardware-limited.
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- goatlover 9y agoNature had a planet and several billion years. Of course the goal wasn't AGI, it was survival, and horseshoe crabs have done a pretty good job of that. So have beatles, with their large number of species. How would you select for only AGI? It would be like selecting for only the greatest eyes (Mantis shrimp), but doing it over the entire tree of life. You still need a way to narrow down to the best eyes.
- lgas 9y agoSurvival is not a goal, it's just the score keeping system.
- akvadrako 9y agoWhat, oh wise one, is the goal?
- LukaEn 9y agoNothing. Evoultion came about randomly, not by intent, so it has no goal.
- lgas 9y ago^
- goatlover 9y agoBut if the goal is to use evolution as model for generating AGI, then the problem is narrowing down all the surviving species to the ones that result in AGI, as opposed to a thousand other successful traits.
- akvadrako 9y agoThat's pretty meaningless - in that case the word goal doesn't have a meaning because everything is just as random as evolution, which isn't very random but whatever.
- visarga 9y agoEvolution is not random. It requires self replication in order to transmit and evolve genes. Everything else is much more random.
- posterboy 9y agoReduction of entropy. Which seems quite the opposite of growth. However effectively, say energy per volume, it allows for growth.
- visarga 9y ago> Nothing. Evolution came about randomly, not by intent, so it has no goal. Evolution created a goal from nothing, which is self-replication. It works on many levels - self replicating DNA, self replicating cells, self replicating ideas (memes), self replicating ecosystem, even the economy has become a self replicator.
- kobeya 9y agoI think that's what the person you are replying to is arguing for...