[agi] Is computation a good concept for describing AI software?

2005-05-20 Thread Ben Goertzel
Hi all, I'm away from home (at a bio conference in Australia) so my email access is sporadic, so it's a bad time for me to start list discussions, but I feel like it anyway, so here goes ;-) I've been talking with Pei Wang about whether "computation" is a good concept for modeling or

Re: [agi] Is computation a good concept for describing AI software?

2005-05-20 Thread Lukasz Kaiser
Hi Ben. I've been talking with Pei Wang about whether computation is a good concept for modeling or describing AI systems. I'm not sure I understand you. When you are talking about computation you seem to think about something roughly similar to Turing machines. But you know very well that

[agi] Hard Takeoff Modules?

2005-05-20 Thread DGoe
Does anyone have a list of Seed modules for a Hard-Takeoff or know of a web site that has a list? From : Lukasz Kaiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] To : agi@v2.listbox.com Subject : Re: [agi] Is computation a good concept for describing AI software?

Re: [agi] Is computation a good concept for describing AI software?

2005-05-20 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
Ben wrote: What if we think about the amount of memory that can be accessed per second associated with a given hardware device H, and call this M(H). Then if we place a practical bound on M(H), and take into account special relativity, we can no longer talk about ordinary computers being

Re: [agi] Is computation a good concept for describing AI software?

2005-05-20 Thread Sergio Navega
Ben, I'm not sure I understand the way your premises are relevant to the conclusion offered. I would say that computation (as a good conceptual ground to model or build intelligent systems) is relatively well established, even if we have several researchers preaching against it. But what