[agi] Singularity Flash Report! [2006 July 11]

2006-07-11 Thread A. T. Murray
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Re: [agi] How the Brain Represents Abstract Knowledge

2006-07-11 Thread James Ratcliff
So my guess is that focusing on the practical level for building an agi system is sufficient, and it's easier than focusing on very abstract levels. When you have a system that can e.g. play soccer, tie shoe lases, build fences, throw objects to hit other objects, walk through a terrain to a

Re: [agi] How the Brain Represents Abstract Knowledge

2006-07-11 Thread Yan King Yin
On 7/12/06, James Ratcliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is essential. If a long term plan would be made only formulated in terms of (very concrete) microlevel concepts there would be a near-infinity of possible plans, and plan descriptions would be enormously long, and would contain a lot of

Re: [agi] How the Brain Represents Abstract Knowledge

2006-07-11 Thread arnoud
On Tuesday 11 July 2006 18:49, James Ratcliff wrote: So my guess is that focusing on the practical level for building an agi system is sufficient, and it's easier than focusing on very abstract levels. When you have a system that can e.g. play soccer, tie shoe lases, build fences,

[agi] Soar vs Novamente

2006-07-11 Thread James Ratcliff
(From a former Soar researcher) I don't have the time to get involved in a big discussion board, but just in case nobody else replies I thought I'd send you a couple of sentences. Soar at it's core is a pretty simple beast. It's a very high performance production rule system with built in