Re: [agi] The Advantages of a Conscious Mind

2007-05-08 Thread James Ratcliff
More simply even that that, Pei, when it comes across a task and a choice of options, if it sees no benefit 5% (arbitrary setting or 0%) does your system choose randomly between between the choices? Doesnt this make the system non-deterministic... Otherwise agree with your description.

Re: [agi] The Advantages of a Conscious Mind

2007-05-08 Thread James Ratcliff
Mike Tintner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pei, I don't think there's any confusion here. Your system as you describe it IS deterministic. Whether an observer might be confused by it is irrelevant. Equally the fact that it is determined by a complex set of algorithms applying to various tasks and

Re: [agi] The Advantages of a Conscious Mind

2007-05-08 Thread Mike Tintner
That would indeed be free, nondeterministic choice, which, as I understood, Pei ruled out for his system. The only qualifications are: * choosing randomly is only one of an infinity of possible methods for such choice * the difference between options can be much greater than 5% - humans and,

Re: [agi] The Advantages of a Conscious Mind

2007-05-08 Thread Mike Tintner
I should have added -- the difference between options can be much greater than 5% - humans and, offhand, I imagine, most AGI's, couldn't begin to measure and compare options, with that degree of precision... for most decisions (not, of course, all) - This list is sponsored by AGIRI:

Re: [agi] The Advantages of a Conscious Mind

2007-05-08 Thread James Ratcliff
Mike Tintner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That would indeed be free, nondeterministic choice, which, as I understood, Pei ruled out for his system. The only qualifications are: * choosing randomly is only one of an infinity of possible methods for such choice rephrase this one? *

[agi] non-deterministic in NARS [Was: The Advantages of a Conscious Mind]

2007-05-08 Thread Pei Wang
On 5/8/07, James Ratcliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: More simply even that that, Pei, when it comes across a task and a choice of options, if it sees no benefit 5% (arbitrary setting or 0%) does your system choose randomly between between the choices? It depends on the type of the task. If

Re: [agi] The Advantages of a Conscious Mind

2007-05-08 Thread Pei Wang
Mike and James: Please see my reply under a new subject, which also addressed the later posts. Pei On 5/8/07, Mike Tintner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I should have added -- the difference between options can be much greater than 5% - humans and, offhand, I imagine, most AGI's, couldn't

Re: [agi] What would motivate you to put work into an AGI project?

2007-05-08 Thread James Ratcliff
YKY (Yan King Yin) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/7/07, James Ratcliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One goal or project I was considering (for profit) is a research tool, basically a KB that scans in teh newspapers and articles and extracts pertinent information for others to query against and

Re: [agi] The Advantages of a Conscious Mind

2007-05-08 Thread Mike Tintner
James: is non-determinsm USEFUL? other than as I have stated, choosing randomly when we dont know any better? Is there any other way to implement non-determinsm, and is their any use for it? Check this out - you are, I suggest, working on the assumption that deterministic is reasonable, and

Re: [agi] The Advantages of a Conscious Mind

2007-05-08 Thread James Ratcliff
Ben, Pei, How does your system handle choices such as this? When given a fork can you return a % or number value back about which choice is the best? How finely graded does this get? I believe simplisticly the blocks world example has to have a value function when it calls something like

Re: [agi] The Advantages of a Conscious Mind

2007-05-08 Thread Pei Wang
James, For this level of details, you'll need to read my technical writings, such as Confidence as Higher-Order Uncertainty (http://nars.wang.googlepages.com/wang.confidence.pdf). Pei On 5/8/07, James Ratcliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ben, Pei, How does your system handle choices such as

Re: [agi] What would motivate you to put work into an AGI project?

2007-05-08 Thread Matt Mahoney
--- Lukasz Stafiniak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Iddo Lev has a more practical answer: http://www.stanford.edu/~iddolev/pulc/current_work.html Just looking at it briefly, it appears to clearly present the many problems with natural language understanding (i.e. various forms of ambiguity). Then

Re: [agi] Determinism

2007-05-08 Thread Pei Wang
On 5/8/07, James Ratcliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pei, The only problem I see with choosing the first one Pei, is that given the 3 choices, and taking #1, if the system does not learn anything extra that would help it make a decision, it would be forever stuck in that loop, and never able to

Re: [agi] What would motivate you to put work into an AGI project?

2007-05-08 Thread rooftop8000
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Re: [agi] Determinism

2007-05-08 Thread Matt Mahoney
I really hate to get into this endless discussion. I think everyone agrees that some randomness in AGI decision making is good (e.g. learning through exploration). Also it does not matter if the source of randomness is a true random source, such as thermal noise in neurons, or a deterministic

Re: [agi] What would motivate you to put work into an AGI project?

2007-05-08 Thread Lukasz Stafiniak
This work is a progress along a clearly stated line of research. It is about ways of managing ambiguity. The dissertation is not about a complete AGI system, it does not go into machine learning. It is not about discovering meaning, but analysing meaning: the interpretation of output is fully

Re: [agi] What would motivate you to put work into an AGI project?

2007-05-08 Thread Mark Waser
Personally, I found the dissertation highly enlightening and helpful. Yes, it addresses ambiguity problems with rules (though I debate both of Matt's descriptors -- the term huge and the term complicated) without specifying how these rules might be machine-learned -- but doing so is still a

Re: [agi] What would motivate you to put work into an AGI project?

2007-05-08 Thread Lukasz Stafiniak
You are welcome. Indeed, I was tempted to keep it for myself ;-) As for learning rules, I guess you know the work http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/605753.html or similar. In practical contexts, it must be integrated with learning the semantical lexicon (e.g., feature structures), and thus, the

Re: [agi] What would motivate you to put work into an AGI project?

2007-05-08 Thread Mark Waser
You are welcome. Indeed, I was tempted to keep it for myself ;-) Please. DON'T!:-) As for learning rules, I guess you know the work http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/605753.html or similar. In practical contexts, it must be integrated with learning the semantical lexicon (e.g., feature