Wei_Dai comments on New WBE implementation - Less Wrong

16 Post author: Louie 30 November 2012 11:16AM

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Comment author: Wei_Dai 02 December 2012 06:48:50PM *  4 points [-]

This isn't WBE or even AGI, because they essentially programed the simulated brain to perform certain specific tasks, by writing down algorithms for doing those tasks and then choosing synaptic connection weights to implement those algorithms. (See this paper for details.) Neuromorphic AI is scary because someone might be able to build an AGI without having to understand general intelligence on an algorithmic level, but that's not how Spaun works, at least not the current iteration of it.