Re:Ask HN: Is anyone working on AGI on a promising idea?
by _Nat_ on Thursday December 20, 2018 @01:14AM
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Yeah, I'm doing something that's basically AGI.
The motivation is largely as many futurists hold, i.e.:
> I want to cure all diseases, aging, etc.; but, that's too much research for humans to do quickly enough! We better make artificially intelligent thinkers to do it.
I don't think that the term "artificial general intelligence (AGI)" is optimal; lately, I've been calling it an "intentional system". The conceptual distinction is the focus on the dynamics of intent, whereas intelligence is a slightly-off focus as intelligence is how intention is effected rather than precisely intention itself.
The motivation is largely as many futurists hold, i.e.:
> I want to cure all diseases, aging, etc.; but, that's too much research for humans to do quickly enough! We better make artificially intelligent thinkers to do it.
I don't think that the term "artificial general intelligence (AGI)" is optimal; lately, I've been calling it an "intentional system". The conceptual distinction is the focus on the dynamics of intent, whereas intelligence is a slightly-off focus as intelligence is how intention is effected rather than precisely intention itself.