Next Big Future had a post today on the Singularity:
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http://nextbigfuture.com/2016/03/will-singularity-artificial-general.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2Fadvancednano+%28nextbigfuture%29From here - I was reading one of the links on true AGI:
http://www.evolutionarycompute.com/background.htmlHere's a piece of it I liked, though the whole read is pretty fun:
Artificial Life is the key to building hard Artificial IntelligenceThe problem with general intelligence is we were originally attempting to model/create a _human_ intelligence in order to pass the Turing Test. But humans aren't the only beings capable of reasoning, using tools, and if you have a pet- you will likely believe that your pet has a fairly similar way of experiencing the world to us humans. Maybe human intelligence isn't a good _starting place_ for generic intelligence as much as animal intelligence. And I'm not talking about the other primates, I am talking _lower_ organisms, possibly even single-cell organisms. Granted, these organisms probably have a very different idea of "qualia" than we humans do (or none whatsoever, possibly.); they do adapt to their environment, evolve (and I will qualify that very soon), and compete for limited resources. According to Chris Adami's ALife text book (there are only 1 or 2 in existance: last time I checked Adami's was the best) there are only 3 things a "universe" (or smaller system) must have in order to evolve living systems.
The capacity for a genetic substrate [the primordial soup had all the precursor molecules for this]
Variation (mutation and the mixing of genes in sexual reproduction both do this)
A selection mechanism, whether implicit (like: whether we survive long enough to have kids or not) or explicit (like: whether you perform some task that needs done.) The competition for limited resources is a great selection mechanism, but its not the only way things die off, so its not the only selection mechanism in most systems.
Both Tom Ray and Karl Simms used these three "forces" to evolve digital life on their computers. We call it "Artificial Life" and I think it is the key to developing Strong Artificial Intelligence.
