Comment on Existential Risk and Public Relations

Mon, 16 Aug 2010 02:02:16 GMT

Well, it seems we disagree. Honestly, I see the problem of AGI as the fairly concrete one of assembling an appropriate collection of thousands-to-millions of "narrow AI" subcomponents.

Perhaps another way to put it would be that I suspect the Kolmogorov complexity of any AGI is so high that it's unlikely that the source code could be stored in a small number of human brains (at least the way the latter currently work).

EDIT: When I say "I suspect" here, of course I mean "my impression is". I don't mean to imply that I don't think this thought has occurred to the people at SIAI (though it might be nice if they could explain why they disagree).

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