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>General Intelligence has drivers, like curiosity, hope, a sense of fairness and injustice, and hunger, pain, pleasure, fear I love this thinking ! I've never

>General Intelligence has drivers, like curiosity, hope, a sense of fairness and injustice, and hunger, pain, pleasure, fear I love this thinking ! I've never thought about the "drivers" part of AGI, only ever thought about AGI as a "general-toolbox" to "solve-many-problems" One thing, I think did aid in development of our GI, was the fact we had a physical-body. Thus we had to "adapt and optimise" our GI with that constraint. I.e limited energy(sure computing-power could be a good proxy), but things like pain, survive-ability (poisons, being hunted) the first would help that we develop good visual pattern recognition to identity the poisonous snake, the latter(being hunted) that we had to evolve strategies that were in the realms of our bodies capabilities. Like running away, setting traps. BUT your body is not a static-container, your risk tolerance, capabilities, sensor systems changes as you ages. We have been building AI, with mostly a "non-corporeal" (i.e digital living space) in mind. At first we(ok me) thought it was an advantage since we could iterate faster and simulate many solutions, but now I think it might be a distinct disadvantage) to NOT include the "limitations" of a physical-container like a body-proxy (energy, vulnerability, limited-capabilities etc). If synergy is defined(and valued) as: The whole is greater than the sum of the parts, then maybe: The sum of our limitations(body) is of greater value to the overall-fitness of the organism to evolve intelligence ? YMMV :)

Alan_Dillman 5y ago
Exactly! You said it much more intelligently than I. Bodily go where no thinking machine has gone before. I remember thinking that entropy was bad when I first heard of the concept, but now I see life as tumbling down that slope, and making use of it. There is a synergy, as you say. We must land with a thud, but we're throwing off new forms of order. And that's not just a metaphor. Our intellect sharpens from birth as neurons get trimmed. Early in life we have fluid intelligence, later in life it's crystalized.
- rawoke083600 5y ago
  >but now I see life as tumbling down that slope, and making use of it. There is a synergy, as you say. We must land with a thud, but we're throwing off new forms of order. Absolutely ! I think the saying "Necessity is the mother of all invention" is equally true for AGI :) > We must land with a thud: Can't help but wonder what would "Terry Pratchett's" thoughts be on the matter of intelligence, AGI and the origin of it ! That man had a unique way to look at the world and how it came to be.

Alan_Dillman 5y ago

Exactly! You said it much more intelligently than I. Bodily go where no thinking machine has gone before. I remember thinking that entropy was bad when I first heard of the concept, but now I see life as tumbling down that slope, and making use of it. There is a synergy, as you say. We must land with a thud, but we're throwing off new forms of order. And that's not just a metaphor. Our intellect sharpens from birth as neurons get trimmed. Early in life we have fluid intelligence, later in life it's crystalized.

rawoke083600 5y ago
>but now I see life as tumbling down that slope, and making use of it. There is a synergy, as you say. We must land with a thud, but we're throwing off new forms of order. Absolutely ! I think the saying "Necessity is the mother of all invention" is equally true for AGI :) > We must land with a thud: Can't help but wonder what would "Terry Pratchett's" thoughts be on the matter of intelligence, AGI and the origin of it ! That man had a unique way to look at the world and how it came to be.