I (the "he" mentioned in the above post)
Wrong. It was KT.
Apparently you don't understand chat forums any more than you understand chat bots.
Because you can't figure out the "technology" of following multiple threads for multiple subjects, and because after reading your level of discourse on other forums I am disgusted with you, I will get this over quickly and just post my unedited reply to your "Artificial Intelligence" test or theory or manifesto or whatever you want to call it.
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In the Intelligence test, the author succeeds far more than in the Life test. He gets three partly right.
While it is still sophomorically derivative of other more detailed and rigorous works, at least some of it is not experimentally indefensible. As is common in lay work, much of it is redundant, self referrential or contradictory.
This reviewer holds out hope that a simplistic framework for templating Artificial Intelligence could be extracted from the original test, but expects substantive restructuring and revision before that can be claimed. I don?t expect such work to actually be done.
1) Memory - The ability of the Agent to preserve information. The Agent should be able to store, organize, and utilize data relevant to it's success and survival.
It is hard not to agree that in any universe in which time moves forward, memory is required for Intelligence. Even the greatest mind cannot make any distinctions between one data point and another unless the first data point is still available for comparison when the second one arrives.
Problems arise when the concepts of organization and utilization are added to the mix. Any reasonable definition of these terms makes them more suited for #3 and #6 than for memory. A previous defense claims that organization and utilization are part of memory because you can?t use memory unless it?s organized and if you don?t utilize it then there is no reason to have it (or some such foolishness)
This is like saying that a tool bench is part of a hammer because if you misplace your hammer you can?t use it. And hammering a nail is part of a hammer because unless you hammer a nail then you don?t need a hammer.
Suggest you change this to ?2) Memory?, remembering that we already established that #1 was ?Mutable data paths between components?, in my previous review of your test for Machine Life.
2) Self Awareness - The ability of the Agent to recognize and define discrete objects and classes within it's Universe. The Agent must fully comprehend at least two objects, one of which must be itself.
Before we go too far here, I should refer you to the definition of ?Sophomoric?. One of the most humorous symptoms is a tendency to define a concept by referring to that concept, as in, ?Red is that color which looks red?, then feeling like you have actually done something.
It seems clear that here you have defined self-awareness (in part) as an agent being aware of itself. Great work, we can all go home now. Thanks for taking on the hard ones for us.
Wait a minute? if self-awareness is awareness of self, then what is ?self? and what is ?awareness?. Darn, looks like no one?s going home tonight after all! Besides having to solve the problem you failed to solve, we also have all these circular stains in our logic.
Of course, this one is not nearly as bad as your next one.
3) Intelligence - The Intelligence of the Agent as measured by some standardized testing regimen, i.e. the traditional IQ Test.
Let me see if I understand this, your test for intelligence that you worked so hard on, that people pay hard earned money to merely gaze upon the results of, which has enabled the creation of an unknown number of top secret robots and a few simplistic chatbots on a cheesy web page which begs for donations - requires using a standardized Intelligence Test?!?! :rofl
Say, I have a test for the presence of chlorine in your swimming pool I want to sell you for $5000 - first you take a $3.95 chlorine test kit from Wal-Mart and then you?
4) Mental Acuity - For Agents with language ability; a measure of it's social and conversational maturity as compared with an average human being.
And in a previous post you claimed that you would be that average human being, but you can?t carry on a civil conversation unless people lubricate you with flattery and agree with everything you say. Social and conversational maturity starts at home, I always say.
Chris? You may be spending -way- too much time with your chatbots. I'm just sayin...
5) Free Will - The ability of the Agent to generate, organize, choose, and obtain new and unique goal states.
OK, I?ll give you this one, because I doubt that you understand it and I know you can?t test for it. I doubt that you can even make a decent crack at contending that Free Will exists in humans.
6) Symbolic Reduction - The ability of the Agent to reduce symbols to concrete meaning and to organize these reductions into conceptual frameworks.
Here again you seem to be suggesting that you can test for something that you have not shown you possess yourself. I cannot tell you how many symbols you have failed to reduce to concrete meaning and organize into conceptual frameworks. But, yes, that which eludes you is an important part of intelligence.
Starting with the fact that a simple list of the requirements for organic life are widely known and published in 3rd grade science books, you miss vital points in the carefully worded responses that those with more knowledge and experience than you have graciously granted you. Symbolic reduction indeed! Your vaunted test or ?Unified Theory? is no more than a Treknobabble version of what everyone who paid attention in grade school learned.
How you get off spamming this tripe to ?15 AI forums? is beyond me, my Mom raised me better. Then to dare speak to other folks the way I see you do. Shameful. I hope those 6 year old girls you bring into your trailer are as imaginary as your accomplishments because I don?t want them being exposed to your bad behavior if they dare contradict you.
(Deep breath... I'm alright now)
In conclusion we end up with a short list of ill defined abstractions which the author shows little ability to test for. The first
I had to invent
for him.
1) Mutable data paths between components
2) Memory
3) Free will
4) Symbolic reduction.
Yada yada? Next.
