Re: [agi] Glocal knowledge representation?

2007-03-26 Thread YKY (Yan King Yin)
I've never heard of it used for knowledge representation. Can you explain what's the deal? IMO we should first delineate the AGI problem in a conventional framework and then try to find out where is the computational bottleneck. And then focus our innovation on that particular area, rather

Re: [agi] Why C++ ?

2007-03-26 Thread kevin . osborne
some extra points in support of C++: - Developer quality; It seems to take about 5 years to get good at C++. There's plenty of carbon-copy Java/PHP/.NET programmers being churned out but they'll need some time to mature into decent developers, with a good portion choosing attrition into BAs etc

[agi] Why C++ ?

2007-03-26 Thread A. T. Murray
Kevin Osborne wrote: some extra points in support of C++: - Developer quality [...] - Breadth of library support. [...] - Stability. [...] All fine and good several years from now, when mission-critical, robust AGI programs will be running the world in Joint Stewardship of Earth with us

Re: [agi] Why C++ ?

2007-03-26 Thread rooftop8000
-very hard to write code that writes code compared to LISP, Ruby etc -very hard to safely run code i think. in java you have security things to execute code in safe sandboxes, in C++ any array can just run outside its bounds -in LISP any ruby and the likes, you can just execute 1 line of code

Re: [agi] Why C++ ?

2007-03-26 Thread Russell Wallace
On 3/26/07, rooftop8000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -very hard to write code that writes code compared to LISP, Ruby etc -very hard to safely run code i think. in java you have security things to execute code in safe sandboxes, in C++ any array can just run outside its bounds But for AGI

Re: [agi] Glocal knowledge representation?

2007-03-26 Thread Jef Allbright
On 3/25/07, Ben Goertzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Does anyone know if the term glocal (meaning global/local) has previously been used in the context of AI knowledge representation? While not recognized as a formal term of knowledge representation, glocal has strong connotations of think

Re: Environments and Languages for AGI [WAS Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda]

2007-03-26 Thread David Clark
- Original Message - From: Richard Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2007 12:43 PM Subject: Re: Environments and Languages for AGI [WAS Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda] when someone gets a clue about what they are trying to build, and

Re: [agi] Glocal knowledge representation?

2007-03-26 Thread Ben Goertzel
Yes, Google reveals that the term glocal has been used a few times in the context of social activism. I am writing a conference paper on knowledge representation and am thinking of introducing it as a buzzword for the type of mixed global/local knowledge rep used in Novamente, which I also

Re: [agi] Glocal knowledge representation?

2007-03-26 Thread Jef Allbright
On 3/26/07, Ben Goertzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, Google reveals that the term glocal has been used a few times in the context of social activism. While popularized by social activists, particularly with regard to ecological concerns, the fairly deep principle I had in mind goes somewhat

[agi] AGI interests

2007-03-26 Thread DEREK ZAHN
David Clark writes: Everyone on this list is quite different. It would be interesting to see what basic interests and views the members of this list hold. For a few people, published works answer this pretty clearly but that's not true for most list members. I'll start. I'm a

Re: [agi] AGI interests

2007-03-26 Thread Jef Allbright
On 3/26/07, DEREK ZAHN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Clark writes: Everyone on this list is quite different. It would be interesting to see what basic interests and views the members of this list hold. For a few people, published works answer this pretty clearly but that's not true for most

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-26 Thread Stephen Reed
When I was at Cycorp, we used Allegro for program development and a Lisp-to-C translator and runtime of Cycorp's design for production. When containing millions of knowledge store objects, Allegro is less space efficient than the Cycorp C runtime. For example, Allegro uses two fullwords to

Re: [agi] AGI interests

2007-03-26 Thread Jean-Paul Van Belle
Derek, great idea. Here's my story/interest Ever since a kid (and playing with the very first computers) I have been fascinated intrigued by the concept of AGI (tho not necessarily by that name). I've had a number of different career paths and many different hobbies but my largely philosophical

Re: [agi] AGI interests

2007-03-26 Thread Richard Loosemore
DEREK ZAHN wrote: It would be interesting to see what basic interests and views the members of this list hold. For a few people, published works answer this pretty clearly but that's not true for most list members. Sounds like a good idea. I am a professional, self-funded researcher and

[agi] Re: Why is progress toward AGI so slow?

2007-03-26 Thread Ben Goertzel
The project was founded officially in 2001 but for much of the time between 2001 and 2004 there was NOBODY working on it full time. All of us founders had day jobs, either actual jobs or AI consulting jobs, needed to pay the bills. For the last couple years there were 2-3 people working

[agi] New business direction for Novamente LLC

2007-03-26 Thread Ben Goertzel
Hi all, As there has been a lot of discussion of the Novamente AI system on this list, it seems apropos to announce here that Novamente LLC has decided upon a significant shift in business direction/approach. If you're curious a pertinent company blog entry is here:

Re: [agi] AGI interests

2007-03-26 Thread John Rose
It would be interesting to see what basic interests and views the members of this list hold. For a few people, published works answer this pretty clearly but that's not true for most list members. Hi, I'm a software and information guy. I've lived, eaten, and breathed software and

Re: [agi] AGI interests

2007-03-26 Thread David Clark
- Original Message - From: DEREK ZAHN [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 10:07 AM Subject: [agi] AGI interests It would be interesting to see what basic interests and views the members of this list hold. For a few people, published works answer this

Re: [agi] AGI interests

2007-03-26 Thread Elihu Herskovics
David Clark writes: Everyone on this list is quite different. It would be interesting to see what basic interests and views the members of this list hold. For a few people, published works answer this pretty clearly but that's not true for most list members. Hi. Right now i'm a freshman

Re: [agi] AGI interests

2007-03-26 Thread Russell Wallace
I don't believe AI in the sense of a self-willed mind is going to happen; fortunately, it doesn't need to. The two problems I want to help solve are the global loss of fifty million lives a year, and the difficulty in living in the 99.999...999% of the universe that isn't Earth. Each of these is

Re: [agi] New business direction for Novamente LLC

2007-03-26 Thread Bob Mottram
Creating compelling virtual characters for games or online worlds sounds like a nice direction to go down, which fits well with the overall aims of producing an AGI. Although most of my own focus is in producing real world intelligent entities in the form of robotics I've long thought, ever

[agi] Why is progress toward AGI so slow?

2007-03-26 Thread Ben Goertzel
Hi, - what is the REAL reason highly talented AGI research groups keep pushing their deadlines back. E.g. Ben's announced imminent breakthrus several times ... the one fact he mentioned a few years back that made sense is the huge parameter space/degrees of freedom (you have at least 5 to 10

RE: [agi] AGI interests

2007-03-26 Thread Tim
Derek: I too agree that this is a good idea to exchange information. For myself, I am a Computer Scientist but before I became a CS, I was a PsychoBiologist so I have a good foundation in both worlds. Also, this has led me to be a Reverse Brain Engineer and a Connectionist. I have been working

Re: [agi] AGI interests

2007-03-26 Thread Paul Tiffany
Like Elihu, I'm also a lurker on this list. I'm almost finished undergrad at UVa in Music and Economics: My main interest is the blossoming Neo-Luddite a cappella movement. After I graduate, I will enter that sphere at an audio engineer, although hopefully I will continue work as a musicologist

Re: [agi] AGI interests

2007-03-26 Thread Mark Waser
Since everyone else is doing it . . . . My interests are a.. Coordinated Knowledge-Base/World-Model Building and b.. Friendliness/Morality/Goal Development Optimization Fundamentally, this means developing a.. Knowledge-harvesting agents b..