Re: [agi] How should an AGI ponder about mathematics

2007-04-22 Thread J. Storrs Hall, PhD.
Look also at Ontic: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/classic/message6641.html http://ttic.uchicago.edu/%7Edmcallester/ontic-spec.ps http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/ai-repository/ai/areas/kr/systems/ontic/0.html http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/witty95ontic.html Josh On Saturday 21 April 2007

Re: [agi] How should an AGI ponder about mathematics

2007-04-22 Thread Matt Mahoney
Ontic looks like an interesting and elegant formalism, but I don't see how it would help an AGI learn mathematics. We are not yet at the point where we can solve word problems like if I pay for a $4.95 item with a $10 bill, how much change should I get back? Never mind the harder problem of

Re: [agi] How should an AGI ponder about mathematics

2007-04-22 Thread Lukasz Stafiniak
On 4/23/07, Matt Mahoney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ontic looks like an interesting and elegant formalism, but I don't see how it would help an AGI learn mathematics. We are not yet at the point where we can solve word problems like if I pay for a $4.95 item with a $10 bill, how much change