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Type: Book chapter / technical paper (page 160)
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This document is page 160 from a technical book or paper (Chapter 8: Cognitive Synergy) discussing Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). The text details the challenges 'AGI engineers' face in creating meaningful metrics for intermediate progress, referencing a specific project or architecture called 'CogPrime' and a 'virtual preschool' testing approach. It bears a House Oversight Bates stamp, suggesting it was part of a document production, likely related to investigations involving connections between Epstein and scientific researchers.

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Authors of the text discussing the development and testing of CogPrime.

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An AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) architecture or project discussed in the text.
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"Really, as AGI engineers, we would love to have a sensible rigorous way to test our intermediary progress toward AGI, so as to be able to pose convincing arguments to skeptics, funding sources, potential collaborators and so forth."
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"But it seems worth seriously considering the possibility that the difficulty in finding such a measure reflects fundamental properties of general intelligence."
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"From a practical CogPrime perspective, we are interested in a variety of evaluation and testing methods, including the "virtual preschool" approach..."
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"...we suspect the reasons for this lack may be rooted in deep properties of feasible general intelligence, such as tricky cognitive synergy."
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8 Cognitive Synergy
Hopefully it's clear that the motivation behind the line of thinking presented here is a desire to understand the nature of general intelligence and its pursuit – not a desire to avoid testing our AGI software! Really, as AGI engineers, we would love to have a sensible rigorous way to test our intermediary progress toward AGI, so as to be able to pose convincing arguments to skeptics, funding sources, potential collaborators and so forth. Our motivation here is not a desire to avoid having the intermediate progress of our efforts measured, but rather a desire to explain the frustrating (but by now rather well-established) difficulty of creating such intermediate goals for human-level AGI in a meaningful way.
If we or someone else figures out a compelling way to measure partial progress toward AGI, we will celebrate the occasion. But it seems worth seriously considering the possibility that the difficulty in finding such a measure reflects fundamental properties of general intelligence.
From a practical CogPrime perspective, we are interested in a variety of evaluation and testing methods, including the "virtual preschool" approach mentioned briefly above and more extensively in later chapters. However, our focus will be on evaluation methods that give us meaningful information about CogPrime's progress, given our knowledge of how CogPrime works and our understanding of the underlying theory. We are unlikely to focus on the achievement of intermediate test results capable of convincing skeptics of the reality of our partial progress, because we have not yet seen any credible tests of this nature, and because we suspect the reasons for this lack may be rooted in deep properties of feasible general intelligence, such as tricky cognitive synergy.
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