The Summit So Far

By | September 9, 2007
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A well-timed invitation to have dinner with the lovely Iveta Brigis and the — if not lovely, let’s just say personable – John Smart, along with a gaggle of Bay Area futurist acquaintances both old and new, plus Wendell Wallach from Yale (more on him later) and at least one dude from L.A. significantly slowed my blogging last night, so now I’m running to catch up. Not that I regret anything. Yummy Thai food and fascinating company. I love the Singularity Summit.

Anyhow, here’s a quick recap of yesterday’s events.

  • https://www.blog.speculist.com Stephen Gordon

    On the 1979 driving robots, which has improved more, the software or the hardware?

  • https://www.blog.speculist.com Stephen Gordon

    Your favorite part of Eli’s talk – WHAAA?
    :-)

  • https://www.blog.speculist.com Stephen Gordon

    Evolving an AGI…

    “I’m sorry sir, but if you want to run this AGI at age 18 you will have to upgrade. Your laptop can only handle the AGI at age 2.”

  • https://www.blog.speculist.com Stephen Gordon

    C Cortex software – take that Legion!

  • https://www.blog.speculist.com Stephen Gordon

    “Let the wisdom of crowds help bring the first AGI online.”

    I wouldn’t think that raising a baby with a crowd as parents would be a good idea. And raising the first AGI that way might be a very, very bad idea. Imagine the consequence of child abuse here.

    OTOH, I did proposed something similar in my Ramona 2.0 post. I imagined a distributed upbringing where it would be easy to delete or exclude negative experiences from the regathered central personality.

    So maybe the “wisdom of the crowds” would work if the “foolishness of idiots” could be weeded out as we go.

  • Phil Bowermaster

    I think the idea here is that you have a lot of people teaching / interacting with their own virtual child. Some of the lessons will work, some won’t — but the ones that work are collected by Novamente (or somebody else) and provide incremental steps towards AGI. So it’s not collective parenting — it’s wisdom spread out over lots of individual parenting situations and strategies.

  • D. Vision

    Nice meeting you, Phil. We had a good chat. I was around for the reception but didn’t see you–perhaps you were inside interviewing people? At any rate, I couldn’t make it the second day, but enjoyed the first day.

    I still remain pretty skeptical about the subject, but who knows what the future will bring….

  • http://saintjudas.livejournal.com/ Be Afraid (Matthew Bailey)

    Ben… Ben Goertzel… Not Dan…

  • https://www.blog.speculist.com Stephen Gordon

    Matthew:

    Thanks. Fixed.

  • Phil Bowermaster

    Must have been sleep-deprivation-induced-keyboard-mismanagement. I know Ben’s name is Ben.

  • http://saintjudas.livejournal.com/ Be Afraid (Matthew Bailey)

    I know… I realize now that may have sounded kinda picky, and a rather niggling bit… But, I know I am a little sensitive when people constantly refer to me as “Michael” (for some reason it happens… ).

    Of course, things like that happen… I once called my own brother Doug in a post I made several years ago… His name, ironically, IS Dan…