Artificial General Intelligence: Now Is the Time

Google Tech Talks
May 30, 2007

ABSTRACT

Dr. Ben Goertzel - Artificial General Intelligence: Now Is the Time Essay: www.kurzweilai.net/articles/art0701.html Abstract: When the AI field was founded over 50 years ago, it was squarely focused on the grand dream of creating software displaying general intelligence at the human level or beyond. Since that time the field has drifted in a direction Ray Kurzweil has called "Narrow AI": the creation of intelligent software applications carrying out highly particular functions. The relationship between this sort of narrow AI and "artificial general intelligence" (AGI) as in the original dreams of the AI field, is an issue of dispute among experts. Some...

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[Ackers555]

A lot of the comments here seem to be from morons who haven't understood a fraction of what has been discussed here. Emergent systems <i>are</i> the only way to create genuine artificial intelligence. Who gives a shit what the guy looks or sounds like. This is great stuff, and an excellent approach to AGI. I'm tired of this stupid attitude that Intelligence only occurs behind a starched collar and tie.

[RobotechMacrossGame]

the guy looks like Jesus, so I believe him regardless his bad articulation

[FloodPower]

Some people seem to be turned off by your style (or alleged lack thereof) of speaking, So I feel it is necessary to say that I enjoy your voice and style, both in speaking and writing. You are fascinating indeed.

[FloodPower]

"Fluid mechanics.... just has not been *poured* into this domain."

[theeclownbro]

Can u get agi on ur pc?

[MarzioBalduccI]

8282 22 comments Please Stay I am still usefull dont be offended

[jag9998]

Ahhh, stimulating. I wasn't yet sold on the use of virtual worlds, but I guess cutting the fat on what it has to process is a really good thing. We can get to AGI in the variety of hard reality when computers catch up, but right now we just need to try get all the systems together (hopefully in one building:). As for biological based models, I think they're stupid. We shouldn't try to replicate something we don't understand only because it should work.

[XanaduZune]

Thanks for the great video. I finally have some idea of what the AI community has accomplished thus far with regards to AGI.

[XanaduZune]

I basically agree with everything he said and I've been thinking pretty much the same things. It seems like hardly anyone is working on AGI and they're spending all this time and money on side issues such as robot arms, chess games, and lots of other things that are not AGI. I wonder if people think AGI is too hard so they avoid working on it. Then they do all this other stuff and pretend it is artificial intelligence when it is just software.