[ExI] The present and future of AI

[John Clark]

On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 6:45 PM Dylan Distasio <interzone at gmail.com> wrote:

*> You're missing a lot of additional information involved in creating a
> human being from scratch.   The minimum information required goes very far
> beyond knowing the sequence of the genome and is still not clear.  The
> order in which genes are turned on and off and in what order during
> development is crucial, and additionally vary by tissue type.   *
>

Yes, and that order information is also encoded in the genome.

> *Additionally, the information encoded in the exome alone just tells you
> the linear order of amino acids strung together.  It tells you nothing
> about the information encoded in the 3 dimensional folding of that protein*
>

The genome doesn't need to encode the 3D shape of a protein because the
minimum amount of information required to produce that is just information
about the linear sequence of amino acids, the additional information needed
to fold into the proper shape is obtained from the environment. And a seed
AI would start out as being pretty stupid, and Einstein wasn't very
intelligent when he was first born either, but he learned from the
environment and the seed AI would do the same. A seed AI is the amount of
information needed to produce super intelligence that the environment
cannot supply.

*> That's not even touching on the impact of methylation in promoting or
> suppressing genes.*
>

There can only be 2 places where the information about what bases in the
DNA molecule get a methyl group attached to them and which bases don't can
come from, the genome itself or the environment.

John K Clark
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