_exit wrote:Did you know that
AGI work seeks to replicate something in humans called "
general intelligence", regardless of how the word consciousness may be varyingly defined (or rather, regardless of how the word consciousness may be varyingly understood)?
Well, the wikipedia article on AGI does not start out well:
Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is the intelligence of a machine that could successfully perform any intellectual task that a human being can.
That use of
any doesn't really describe the task of anyone doing research on AI, so really, the search for AGI is related to a set of tasks that somebody thinks represents a useful kind of AI. Useful to whom? Why, humans of course. With only humans to define the target 'intelligence', don't you think the language of 'general intelligence' is a bit grandiose? Some example tasks are listed a little later in the article, but such an article is only really pertinent to a non-expert who might want to pretend to understand what actual AI researchers are up to.
In sum, you're not after anything technical, here. In fact, the thread title you chose (related to the Bennett article you linked) is bordering on absurd. The problem of
purpose is even worse than the problem of
intelligence. People who want to get something done stick to words like
function, which will get you back to focusing on the kinds of tasks you want the machine to perform. Who sets those priorities? Your thread is in the wrong subforum, because you're just asking philosophical questions. There's nothing wrong with that, but putting this kind of discussion into a technology subforum is also bordering on the absurd. There are very few folks contributing to threads like this who know very much about technology, anyway.
The article at Research Gate to which you linked was written by somebody obsessed with
purpose -- in other words, an ex-theist who's kinda missing the good old days. Perhaps life's purpose is to reach the stage of obsessing about life's purpose. If you are not, in fact, Jordan Micah Bennett, you're wasting your time on crap like that. Go and learn a respectable trade. Train as a certified electrician, and help people re-wire their kitchens.
_exit wrote:Why would a sock wait at least 3 years to post about a paper on the thread? (paper was available from 2015)
Fair question, I guess. However, it's only been a year since Jordan Bennett showed up here with his little song and dance. Maybe he was holding out on us, back then. So no, the three-year time span doesn't really answer any questions someone might have about sock puppetry.
_exit wrote:Doesn't this forum do IP bans?
Why does any self-respecting troll use an identifiable IP domain, the first thing anyone would check?
by 
I didn't follow the link, that's what I get for being paranoid about clickbait!
