Modularity and decomposing intelligence

I believe that intelligence has components like those listed in my 23 August 2010 blog. With A.s.a. H.’s architecture long term memory is frequently held in hard drives, flash drives, or even SD cards which can be fairly easily expanded allowing for knowledge growth. It is also possible to add additional (hardware and/or software) modules that perform extrapolation or other algorithms that increase A.s.a.’s creativity. Overall speed can be increased in some cases by use of parallel processing. Other sorts of intelligence can be more difficult to enhance.

Perhaps students should not know their grades too accurately

If the purpose of grades is to make students work harder* then perhaps they should not know too exactly what their grade is at any moment in time. I have seen students who had high grades near the end of a course slack up a bit knowing that it wouldn’t be enough to change their final grade.

* See my blog of 12 October 2010.

Tradeoffs In kinds of intelligence*

Complex domains require that intelligent agents have more knowledge. More memory (knowledge) slows down processing (search). Simple domains favor faster, less knowledgeable agents. Complex domains require more knowledgeable, slower thinking agents. Different environments favor different kinds of intelligence.*

* See my blog of 23 August 2010.

Nouns, verbs, spatial and temporal patterns

Of the words/concepts A.s.a. H. has learned almost all nouns are purely spatial patterns.* One exception is “hardness” which reflects the amount of displacement registered over time as a force is applied. Verbs are more complicated. About half of all verbs are names for temporal patterns. Others like “need,” “listen,” “see,” “obstruct” are not.

* registered at a single time step

Return to school

Before we all return to campus everyone needs to be tested for Covid -19. Will we be?

AI adolescence?

I have argued that we humans spend too much of our lives in childhood and adolescence and too little of it as productive adults.* I had thought that AIs would not have this issue. But perhaps AIs also need a controlled adolescent phase in order to overcome the problem discussed in my blog of 6 June 2020.

* See, for example, my blog of 15 Oct. 2010.

Empiricism

The concepts that A.s.a. H. acquires from its sensations and actions* support empiricism. The innate concepts that A.s.a. H. has do not.** If I restrict attention to the concepts defined in the Toki Pona language then about 1/6 of all the concepts are innate.

* See, for example, my blogs of 1 Oct 2015 and 5 Nov 2015.
** See, for example, my blogs of 23 Jan 2013, 19 Oct 2015, 21 Feb 2020, and 27 Feb 2020.