So let me get this straight. Aren't they saying that Joe Biden can have seal team 6 assassinate Donald Trump tomorrow and he (Biden) will be insulated from criminal prosecution because he is the current president? That's nuts. The GOP has a lot to answer for. I fear for the future of my children and grandchildren.
Is this a new Gesetz zur Behebung der Not von Volk und Reich?
What sensors are needed to ground the core concepts learned by an intelligent robotic agent**? For some time I simply added sensor types as soon as they were available for use***. But in retrospect I believe that essential ones were:
force sensors, accelerometers, temperature sensors, light sensors, color sensors, gas sensors, anemometer, gps sensor, rain/water sensor, microphone and speaker, humidity sensor, voltage sensors, current sensors, ultrasonic and/or IR range finders, line sensor, servo/motor encoders, and neural network preprocessors****.
Combinations and sequences of these raw input signals together form primitive core concepts.
* Rather than symbol grounding.
** Or society of agents.
*** For example, my blog of 1 October 2015.
****Possibly classifying input from cameras.
In our early publication* A.s.a.'s value module was placed at the top of the case/concept hierarchy. This can be true early in training and/or for small agents**. But as training proceeds more and more concepts are acquired/created and these are chained and the hierarchy grows upward. I.e., our values need not be our deepest/most abstracted concepts**.
Furthermore, in the light version of A.s.a. H. 2.0 published in our 10 February 2011 blog we value pattern occurrence frequency and pattern size on each level of the hierarchy.
* Trans. Kan. Acad. Sci., vol. 109, pg 159, 2006.
** Or by use of pass through across layers.
Diversity. There are multiple niches, multiple ways to improve a creature's fitness and increase its chances of survival and spread. Beneficial traits, different adaptions, like protective coloration, larger brains, etc. Different creatures may find very different ways to improve.
If humans and AIs are to peacefully co-exist it is not a matter of giving AIs our (rather poor) set of values. Rather, human values will also have to change (improve).
There is an upper bound placed on human brain size by what can be pushed through the birth canal. There is a lower bound placed upon the human computing elements by minimum cell size. There is a speed limit placed upon human computational processing by neural electrochemistry. Nonhuman processors relax all of these limitations. This all favors mechanical life.
For a long time I have stressed the importance of attention and explored various attention mechanisms*. Agent specialization is an attention mechanism as well as an approach to reducing complexity/dimensionality**. There are some senses/sensors a given specialist may have no need for at all. Specialization is attention to some specific set of skills/tasks in a particular environment.
* See, for example, my blogs of 1 June 2011 and 3 January 2018.
** See, for example, my blog of 1 July 2023.
