Re: Towards true A.I.

From	seeWebInstead@rem.intarweb.org (Robert Maas, http://tinyurl.com/uh3t)
Newsgroups	comp.ai.philosophy, comp.programming
Subject	Re: Towards true A.I.
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Date	2012-04-21 15:44 -0700

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> > >> As with an AI for sweeping floor they show unintelligence by
> > >> total inability to classify content between "valuable" and "junk."
> > > That's yet another dimension, after relevance to what you really
> > > wanted to know about.
> From: c...@kcwc.com (Curt Welch)
> "what you want" is the foundation of all relevance.  You have
> neither extended it or added greater insight to the problem by
> talking about what you want to "know" vs what you want to
> "clean".  It's still all becomes the same question of relevance
> which all translates back to action selection. The job of the
> brain is to select which behavior to produce at every instant of
> a human's life.  That selection problem is the foundational
> problem of relevance that the brain solves.  It's the definition
> of relevance - or should be.  It's the answer to the question
> "what do I do now?".

I think I agree. Clarifying what you said a little: Relevance of
some piece of knowledge means to what degree obtaining that
knowledge is useful for aiding a decision what to do next. OK?

So the robot needs to estimate what information would be worth
getting, to aid the what-next decision, as opposed to what
information is of no immediate use. But a longer-term optimization
might include gathering additional information that is of no
immediate use but which is likely to be useful later and is much
cheaper to get now while "here" rather than needing to come back
here to get it later when it's urgently needed.

The rest of what you said sounds good and I have nothing to add.

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