[Photo credit: George P. Dvorsky’s Blog - Sentient Developments - Article: TransVision 2007: the good, the bad and the ugly]

Fun happenings this week!

During Transvision 2007, Ben Goertzel spoke (transcript-audio) on a panel w/ Marvin Minsky and Second Life’s Philip Rosedale. The following quote from Ronald Bailey’s Reason Online article — Would you give up your immortality to ensure the success of a posthuman world? Answering hard questions at the World Transhumanist conference — sums things up:

Finally, Rosedale mentioned the possibility of creating AI avatars that could learn from interacting with the avatars of humans in Second Life. “I find it very likely that any artificial intelligence we create will live first in a world like this,” said Rosedale.

Rosedale’s last observation flowed nicely into the next talk by Novamente AI researcher Ben Goertzel. Goertzel wants to create baby AI’s that can learn and insert them into virtual worlds where human avatars can teach them. He suggested creating them as virtual pets, perhaps a parrot or a cat, that would be embodied, reflective, and could use adaptive learning. People in virtual worlds like Second Life could teach AI avatars not only tricks, but also about space, objects and even to talk. Whenever any one of the AI avatars learned something new it could be transferred immediately to all of the other AI avatars. With millions of virtual world residents teaching AI avatars, they could rapidly acquire artificial general intelligence.

Towards a Joyous Singularity,

Bruce Klein
President, Novamente

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