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The article says we need: > Online non-greedy planning technologies that can operate in the presence of a priori unseen tasks, states, and actions. > A world
by robotresearcher 3y ago
The article says we need:
> Online non-greedy planning technologies that can operate in the presence of a priori unseen tasks, states, and actions.
> A world model technology that robustly predicts state-action-state transitions for all states and actions that might be encountered while performing any task in any environment.
People use greedy strategies all the time, and the intractability of considering 'all states and actions' is the Frame Problem. It is lack of generality that avoids the Frame Problem, and makes planning tractable for animals.
In my view, AGI is an anti-goal. Specialization is what makes intelligent systems feasible. On the other hand, there are technologies like DNNs, gradient descent strategies, even computation itself, that are generally useful for application to specialized intelligent systems.
By analogy, all animals are made of cells, and developed by evolution. But there's no General Animal that can do what all the others can, even if they share core technology.
edit: I wish I hadn't given the analogy. Quibbling about it seems to be irresistible, and has has distracted from my point here.
- goatlover 3y ago> But there's no General Animal that can do what all the others can, even if they share core technology. Humans can artificially travel fast, fly, swim deep, drill deep, move heavy things, kill very efficiently, etc.
- TheRoque 3y agoIt's still not general. Besides, it relies on a heavy use of energy that might not be around forever.
- goatlover 3y agoThen your definition of general is too general to be meaningful.
- robotresearcher 3y agoUnless that 'etc' is working very hard, I don't think you are seriously claiming that humans and their tech can do everything another animal can do. And if you were, we would only have to consider energy efficiency to save the analogy.
- OkayPhysicist 3y agoWhat can animals do that humans with tools can't? Energy efficiency only matters in comparison to the energy you can obtain: for animals, that means eating stuff. For plants, it means absorbing sunlight. For us, it means harnessing forms of energy no other living thing has ever deigned to.
- goatlover 3y agoThis is in the context of AGI, not artificial life. We're not concerned with making an AGI that can photosynthesize or lay eggs. That's not what general intelligence refers to.
- robotresearcher 3y agoThat's correct. An analogy to a thing is not that thing.