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> I don't think that a non-general intelligence can design a general intelligence. humans are a general intelligence. do you think an intelligence designed hum
by pasquinelli 5y ago
> I don't think that a non-general intelligence can design a general intelligence.
humans are a general intelligence. do you think an intelligence designed humans, or do you think the physical processes from which humans arose can be taken, together, to be a general intelligence?
- karpierz 5y agoNeither, humans weren't designed. I don't think the winning design approach to generating AGI will be to randomly mash chemicals together until intelligence comes out.
- pasquinelli 5y agowell then to say that you don't think a non-general intelligence can design a general intelligence is already a waste of time, because design is something only a general intelligence can do. you seemed to be making a statement about how a general intelligence may arise before you were responding to my comment, but now i see you were just defining design.
- mkaic 5y agoI don't think AGI will be "designed" either -- that's the entire point of the abstraction layers. Each recursive layer of AI between the human and the "final" AGI will remove more and more of the "designed" element in favor of an optimized, idealized, naturally evolved architecture.
- cmsj 5y agoI happen to not believe that AGI is coming in any of our lifetimes, but it's undeniably true that our GI emerged from a design process that lacks a conscious designer.
- NateEag 5y agoWhat about evolution guarantees there was no conscious designer? We write genetic algorithms and use machine learning to build things. If you believe in a Simulator or a God (and in many ways they're indistinguishable beliefs), either one of them could easily be using evolution as a designed tool, as far as I can see.