[Hplusroadmap] Fwd: Re: [agi] RE:P2P and/or communal AGI development [WAS Hacker intelligence level...]

[Bryan Bishop]

My composition of this email has reminded me to bring up the topic of 
p2p distributed ai development. The internet has given us millions of 
idle components to work with that are all able to communicate with each 
other, a massive entropy engine of startling complexity, on which, 
perhaps, an ai system can be developed.

- Bryan

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Subject: Re: [agi] RE:P2P and/or communal AGI development [WAS Hacker 
intelligence level...]
Date: Monday 03 December 2007
From: Bryan Bishop <kanzure at gmail.com>
To: agi at v2.listbox.com

On Monday 03 December 2007, Mike Dougherty wrote:
> I believe the next step of such a system is to become an abstraction
> between the user and the network they're using.  So if you can hook
> into your P2P network via a firefox extension, (consider StumbleUpon
> or Greasemonkey) so it (the agent) can passively monitor your web
> interaction - then it could be learn to screen emails (for example)
> or pre-chew either your first 10 google hits or summarize the next
> 100 for relevance.  I have been told that by the time you have an
> agent doing this well, you'd already have AGI - but i can't believe
> this kind of data mining is beyond narrow AI (or requires fully
> general adaptive intelligence)

Another method of doing search agents, in the mean time, might be to 
take neural tissue samples (or simple scanning of the brain) and try to 
simulate a patch of neurons via computers so that when the simulated 
neurons send good signals, the search agent knows that there has been a 
good match that excites the neurons, and then tells the wetware human 
what has been found. The problem that immediately comes to mind is that 
neurons for such searching are probably somewhere deep in the 
prefrontal cortex ... does anybody have any references to studies done 
with fMRI on people forming Google queries?

- Bryan

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