http://susaro.com Safe and Friendly Artificial Intelligence Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:58:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is a brief commentary on Goetzel's paper entitled "Toward an Understanding of the Preservation of Goals in Self-Modifying Cognitive Systems", which is to be found at http://www.goertzel.org/papers/PreservationOfGoals.pdf The purpose of his paper is to ask what happens when AI systems are given goals (like "Make humans happy") and also given ... http://susaro.com/archives/28 When is a system complex? When trying to decide if a given system is complex, it is important to be clear about some of the distinctions I made in the definition of complexity (yesterday's post). First, the strict definition of a complex system is that it has some observable behavior that can ... http://susaro.com/archives/25 A question has come up about what exactly is the definition of "complexity". The motive behind the question is a debate about the impact of complexity on our efforts to build intelligent systems, but the definition is interesting in its own right. I propose the following as a general definition ... http://susaro.com/archives/24 Sometimes it is difficult for technical people to talk across the gap that separates them from potential investors. Investors need to find out something about a new technology in order to decide whether or not to risk putting money into it, but on the other hand they don't want ... http://susaro.com/archives/23 A quick summary of the (long) description of the Complex Systems Problem that was in the previous post. The purpose of the argument My purpose is to explain that if the task of building an artificial intelligence involves trying to engineer a "complex system", then we are in big trouble because all ... http://susaro.com/archives/22 I believe that the field of Artificial intelligence is in serious trouble, because the research techniques used by people working in that field are all based on an assumption that is not valid. Unfortunately, the new area called "Artificial General Intelligence" - which is generally quite critical of old-style AI, and ... http://susaro.com/archives/20 Whenever I mention the term “artificial intelligence” in public, it immediately causes a huge number of images, associations and fears to jump into the minds of the people hearing these words. Incredible though it may seem, I believe that one of the biggest problems facing the world today is ... http://susaro.com/archives/19 Surfing Samurai Robots is a company building artificial general intelligence (AGI) systems of a new and unusual sort. Rather than employ an architecture that has little in common with the way that thinking and reasoning occurs in the human mind, as most AI researchers tend to do, we are trying to ... http://susaro.com/archives/6