[extropy-chat] Bluff and the Darwin award

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From: Russell Wallace 
To: ExI chat list 
Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 3:39:53 PM 
Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] Bluff and the Darwin award 

> But the most you will ever get out of that process is an AI that's intelligent 
> at proving mathematical theorems - not because you didn't apply it well 
> enough, but because that's all the process was ever trying to give you 
> in the first place. To create an AI that's intelligent at solving real world 
> problems - one that can cure cancer or design a fusion reactor that'll 
> actually work when it's turned on - requires that the criterion for checking 
> whether a new version is really more intelligent than the old one, involves 
> testing its effectiveness at solving real world problems. Which means the 
> process of AI development must involve interaction with the real world, and 
> must be limited in speed by real world events even if you have a building 
> full of nanocomputers to run the software. 

OR, perhaps, that's simply a limitation of your own (and my) imagination and knowledge.
 
Perhaps...in fact, I'd say it's pretty likely...there are ways to develop technology and measure intelligence which you have I simply haven't anticipated, yet.
 
Or heck, perhaps it simply runs simulated universe models.
 
Any time someone says "even technology can't do that", about something other than the most extreme cases (speed of light, leaving this n-brane to explore a 11 dimensional containing universe), what they're really saying is "I lack the imagination to suppose that there's a way to do that which hasn't been invented yet".
 
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