Seeding AGI with a logical ontology and explicit logical theories enables shaping its thinking and intellectual capabilities.
AGI development holds more potential than metaverse development due to its leverage in creating virtual realities.
Achieving complex goals in complex environments requires balancing individuation and self-transcendence.
Deep dives
Development of Tractatus Cognizio Philosophicus - Philosophy of Mind and Universe
The speaker is currently working on a new philosophy of mind book called Tractatus Cognizio Philosophicus. The goal of this philosophy is to shape the thinking of early stage AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) by providing it with a philosophy of mind and universe that can be read and incorporated into its knowledge base. The speaker emphasizes the importance of seeding the AGI's conceptual self-organization process with a logical ontology and explicit logical theories of the world. The speaker intends to make this book accessible for both human consumption and AGI's consumption to enhance their intellectual capabilities.
The Relationship Between AGI and Virtual Reality/Metaverse
The speaker discusses the focus on AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) instead of virtual reality or metaverse development. While acknowledging the appeal and potential of building virtual worlds, the speaker explains that AGI has the most leverage to facilitate the creation of metaverses. By first creating AGI systems, it becomes possible to have a thinking machine capable of constructing virtual realities. The speaker further emphasizes that AGI presents a more fascinating intellectual puzzle compared to metaverse development and holds the most potential in multiple advancing technologies.
Understanding Intelligence and AGI Development
The speaker explores different perspectives on intelligence and its relationship to AGI development. They describe intelligence as the ability to work and adapt to the environment with limited knowledge and resources. The speaker also mentions the efforts to develop the OpenCog Hyperon software system, which combines logical reasoning and neural net components. They discuss the need for efficient algorithms and programming languages, such as the metatype talk and row calculus, to accelerate AGI-related tasks. Moreover, the speaker highlights the importance of training AGIs with moral components and the potential of current language models to simulate human ethical judgments.
General Intelligence as Dual Drives
General intelligence is viewed as the combination of two conflicting drives: individuation, which involves maintaining system boundaries, and self-transcendence, which involves surpassing existing boundaries and transforming into something new. These drives present a tension and cooperation between maintaining boundaries and achieving greater complexity. To achieve complex goals in complex environments with limited resources, self-transcendence becomes essential as constrained complexity limits the ability to achieve more complex goals. Balancing individuation and self-transcendence involves solving various sub-problems and achieving complex goals in complex environments.
OpenCog and the Integration of AI Paradigms
OpenCog is a cognitive architecture that aims to integrate algorithms and data structures from multiple AI paradigms, inspired by the human mind. It combines logical reasoning, evolutionary learning, and neural-symbolic connections. This integration allows for the synergy of different types of memory and learning systems, such as episodic, declarative, procedural, and associative memories. The OpenCog system focuses on deploying AI in a variety of perspectives, considering tasks, survival, and self-modification for achieving robust Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). The development of OpenCog Hyper aims to enhance scalability and speed, harnessing distributed out-of-space and exploring new hardware possibilities.
In episode 237 of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined by Dr. Ben Goertzel to discuss the philosophy of artificial general intelligence. We dive into the distinction between analytic and continental philosophy, the definition of artificial general intelligence, and take a deep dive into Ben's work on his latest AGI project, OpenCog Hyperon. It's an amazing episode and hopefully the first of like a hundred episodes with Ben!
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13:25 - Nihilism/Semi-Reality and the Mind
29:33 - Reverse engineering past authors
31:04 - What is Intelligence?
38:12 - What is Artificial General Intelligence?
39:10 - Analytic Philosophy vs. Continental Philosophy
44:13 - Emulating the Human Mind not the Human Brain
51:05 - The OpenCog Hyperon Architecture and the BlockChain
54:50 - Creating a New Language for AGI (Metta Type Talk)
58:38 - Recurrent Networks for AGI
1:03:39 - The SophiaVerse virtual world for training AGIs
1:04:47 - Morality and Large Language Models
1:12:40 - The Frame Problem for LLMs
1:15:17 - The Secret Formula for AGI (Cognitive Synergy)
1:17:40 - Kill Switches and Existential Threats
1:25:14 - Why "Hyperon"?
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