James_Miller comments on Will AGI surprise the world? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 22 June 2014 02:53:19AM *  1 point [-]

We just don't have the slightest notion how we would do that, regardless of funding.

Really? And what's that opinion based on? Are you an expert in the field? I very often see this meme quoted, but no explanation to back it up.

I'm a computer scientist that has been following the AI / AGI literature for years. I have been doing my own private research (since publishing AGI work is too dangerous) based on OpenCog, pretty much since it was first open sourced, and a few other projects. I've looked at the issues involved in creating a seed AGI, while creating my own design for just such a system. And they are all solvable, or more often already solved but not yet integrated.

Comment author: James_Miller 22 June 2014 05:17:42AM 0 points [-]

Do you have any predictions of what types of new narrow-AI we are likely to see in the next few years?

Comment author: [deleted] 22 June 2014 05:50:41AM *  0 points [-]

No, I wouldn't feel qualified to make predictions on novel narrow AI developments. I stay up to date with what's being published chiefly because my own design involves integrating a handful of narrow AI techniques, and new developments have ramifications for that. But I have no inside knowledge about what frontiers are being pushed next.

Edit: narrow AI and general AI are two very different fields, in case you didn't know.