Semi related article I read a while back. Neither of these methods of creating an AI seem to be reasonable. Both appear to require an incredible amount of input that would be unreasonable, and if they were created, they would not be capable of reasoning in a timely manner.

Programming basic common sense facts would take ages. It’s not reasonable either. My idea would be to create an AI with a lack of physical limitations to allow the machine to be trained under controlled conditions and learn all of these faster than it would take to program the facts in because it has the capability of learning.

The other idea seems even more complex than Mindpixel.

My line of reasoning assumes the determinism is true. All events are caused by preceding events that prime the action to occur, no matter how in control of the event one may seem to be. Therefore, there is no free will. Free will does not make sense. All decisions are reached based on certain considerations, as they are not random. What are the considerations? Obviously the inputs. But the resulting action is an output determined by inputs, therefore, intelligence is nothing more than an extremely sophisticated program which makes decisions based on inputs. Thus AIs can be created once all the decision making variables are in place. A newborn is capable of developing into an intelligent individual capable of reasoning and learning, which is what I assume the ultimate goal is – a machine that can reason and learn like a person. So why not simply program a machine with the same capabilities of a newborn and simply train it. Learning is determinism in a sense.

But there’s also the obvious problem of our wonderful new robotic friends deciding to kill us all for whatever reason. The 3 laws cannot be hardwired. If it is a true AI, it could potentially override the “laws” because it has the capability of reasoning. Humans have things that are hardwired, such as habits and such determined by genes. However, these are nothing more than a “default” setting, capable of being overridden by the mind with sufficient effort or manipulation. Therefore with this hypothetical AI, if the human mind is fully modeled there is a significant risk that any 3 laws will be overridden if certain undesirable human characteristics are included. Therefore specialized “dumbed down” robots would be required for all tasks, otherwise there would be significant risk. Maybe only several AIs can be made that are not stripped of their capability to learn, and even these must be fully contained.

The most basic program of intelligence is simply randomness. Random action, thought generates input into the environment, and possibly a response, allowing learning to occur.

Most Difficult Areas To Address

• Pattern recognition required for learning. Visual, auditory, physical, taste, balance, etc.
• Factoring the endless internal variables that affect a situation
• Determining which variables are even necessary for a task, such as emotion.
• Determining how the variables are connected
• Determining how closely the variables should mimic the human mind
• Creating the variety of machines with and without particular features

Random Motion

• Learned Program
• Reflex
• Preprogrammed

Often I don’t plan things well. I have a terrible habit of jumping into things, forgetting the planning stage altogether time and time again. It’s an irritating habit, and often I’ll end up wasting time. It is also possible to refine every task down into a simple methodology for easy execution, even brainstorming. Hit upon a decent way last night for new webapp ideas.

Using the main trends of the internet, combining them in different ways and applying them to any niche yielding easily generated unique ideas. Came up with two actually good ones, but I was lazy and didn’t get out of bed to write it down and forgot.

• From centralization to the collective, harnessing the power of masses through the internet
• From centralization to the individual
• Shift from local software to webapps
  Freemium, new pricing models
• Online communities and interactivity. Nothing needs to be done alone anymore in a virtual sense.