Emile comments on The Importance of Self-Doubt - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Emile 20 August 2010 09:04:58PM 3 points [-]

I think that I know the scientific community better than you, and have confidence that if creating an AGI was as easy as you seem to think it is (how easy I don't know because you didn't give a number) then there would be people in the scientific community who would be working on AGI.

Um, and there aren't?

Comment author: multifoliaterose 20 August 2010 09:53:55PM 1 point [-]

Give some examples. There may be a few people in the scientific community working on AGI, but my understanding is that basically everybody is doing narrow AI.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 20 August 2010 11:24:04PM *  5 points [-]

What is currently called the AGI field will probably bear no fruit, perhaps except for the end-game when it borrows then-sufficiently powerful tools from more productive areas of research (and destroys the world). "Narrow AI" develops the tools that could eventually allow the construction of random-preference AGI.

Comment author: Nick_Tarleton 20 August 2010 09:57:49PM *  4 points [-]

The folks here, for a start.

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