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From: on behalf of Ben Goertzel Sent: Monday, February 11, 2013 6:03 PM To: Jeffrey Epstein Subject: Re: why not have the machine take iq tests Sure thing -- will do tomorrow or Wednesday, thanks ;) On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Jeffrey Epstein <[email protected]> wrote: > put toghetr a proposal > On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 12:38 PM, Ben Goertzel wrote: » Yeah... the child IQ tests would be a reasonable research focus.... » I can see that making an AGI pass these tests would be » attention-grabbing in the media, and also scientifically compelling » to a certain subset of the community. » I'd have to find a child psychologist willing to actually share some » specific test questions; they are cagey about supplying them online » or in books for some reason... I guess they don't want parents to » coach their tots on the specific questions ;p .... But that wouldn't » be too hard. » Selmer Bringsjord, at RPI, has done some work making robots pass » vision and movement oriented IQ tests » http://www.rpi.eduidept/NewsComm/Magazine/dec02/atrensselaer/atrensse » laer5.html » [Selmer is an interesting guy btw.... He is a rather good AI » researcher, mathematician and cognitive scientist -- yet also a » pretty hard-core Christian, who believes human-level AGI is » impossible because computers and robots don't have souls !! The » capability of the human mind to maintain fundamental contradictions, » yet still reason logically in closely rela