From: Ben Goertzel (ben@webmind.com)
Date: Wed May 02 2001 - 20:54:58 MDT
> > What I mean by "hard-wiring Friendliness" is placing
> Friendliness at the top
> > of the initial goal system and making the system express all
> other goals as
> > subgoals of this. Is this not what you propose? I thought
> that's what you
> > described to me in New York...
>
> Yes, that's what I described, but by that description *I'm* hard-wired
> Friendly, since this is one of the properties I strive for in my own
> declarative philosophical content.
No, you're just **deluded** ;>
You don't *really* have Friendliness as your ultimate supergoal ... you just
have a false self-model in which Friendliness is your ultimate supergoal!
> Depends on how good WM is. If WM is already very intelligent in
> Eurisko-like heuristic discovery and composition, and if it has enough
> computing power to handle the clustering and schema creation, feeding in
> the low-level description might be enough for WM to create an effective
> perceptual understanding of the higher-level features by examining typical
> human-written code. If WM has a strong understanding of purpose and a
> strong pre-existing understanding of vis modules' functionality (WM gets a
> "ve", by this point), then you could, conceivably, just feed in the Java
> supercompiler description and watch the thing blaze straight through a
> hard takeoff. Low-probability outcome, but very real.
I think that
Java supercompiler description
+ computer science background (e.g. useful CS theorems encoded in Mizar)
+ WM reasoning system
is a framework that will allow WM to gradually learn to rewrite code to be
more intelligent, starting with simple code and eventually working up to
itself
> The Friendliness-topped goal system, the causal goal system, the
> probabilistic supergoals, and the controlled ascent feature are the main
> things I'd want Webmind to add before the 1.0 version of the AI Engine.
>
Causal goal system is basically there, we never finished our detailed
conversation on that.
Probabilistic supergoals are definitely there.
Controlled ascent is absent so far; I have no objection to it, but it's just
not time to worry about it yet.
Friendliness-topped goal system is a delusion ;>
ben
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