Re: [agi] How valuable is Solmononoff Induction for real world AGI?

2007-11-08 Thread Jef Allbright
I recently found this paper to contain some thinking worthwhile to the considerations in this thread. http://lcsd05.cs.tamu.edu/papers/veldhuizen.pdf - Jef - This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to:

Re: [agi] How valuable is Solmononoff Induction for real world AGI?

2007-11-08 Thread Benjamin Goertzel
Is there any research that can tell us what kind of structures are better for machine learning? Or perhaps w.r.t a certain type of data? Are there learning structures that will somehow learn things faster? There is plenty of knowledge about which learning algorithms are better for which

Re: [agi] How valuable is Solmononoff Induction for real world AGI?

2007-11-08 Thread YKY (Yan King Yin)
My impression is that most machine learning theories assume a search space of hypotheses as a given, so it is out of their scope to compare *between* learning structures (eg, between logic and neural networks). Algorithmic learning theory - I don't know much about it - may be useful because it

Re: [agi] How valuable is Solmononoff Induction for real world AGI?

2007-11-08 Thread YKY (Yan King Yin)
Thanks for the input. There's one perplexing theorem, in the paper about the algorithmic complexity of programming, that the language doesn't matter that much, ie, the algorithmic complexity of a program in different languages only differ by a constant. I've heard something similar about the

Re: [agi] How valuable is Solmononoff Induction for real world AGI?

2007-11-08 Thread William Pearson
On 08/11/2007, YKY (Yan King Yin) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My impression is that most machine learning theories assume a search space of hypotheses as a given, so it is out of their scope to compare *between* learning structures (eg, between logic and neural networks). Algorithmic learning

RE: [agi] How valuable is Solmononoff Induction for real world AGI?

2007-11-08 Thread Edward W. Porter
VLADIMIR NESOV IN HIS 11/07/07 10:54 PM POST SAID VLADIMIR “Hutter shows that prior can be selected rather arbitrarily without giving up too much” ED Yes. I was wondering why the Solomonoff Induction paper made such a big stink about picking the prior (and then came up which a choice that

[agi] Soliciting Papers for Workshop on the Broader Implications of AGI

2007-11-08 Thread Benjamin Goertzel
Hi all, Just a reminder that we are soliciting papers on Sociocultural, Ethical and Futurological Implications of Artificial General Intelligence to be presented at a workshop following the AGI-08 conference in Memphis (US) in March. http://www.agi-08.org/workshop/ The submission deadline is

RE: [agi] How valuable is Solmononoff Induction for real world AGI?

2007-11-08 Thread John G. Rose
From: Jef Allbright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I recently found this paper to contain some thinking worthwhile to the considerations in this thread. http://lcsd05.cs.tamu.edu/papers/veldhuizen.pdf This is an excellent paper not in only the subject of code reuse but also of the techniques

RE: [agi] How valuable is Solmononoff Induction for real world AGI?

2007-11-08 Thread Edward W. Porter
Jef, The paper cited below is more relevant to Kolmogorov complexity than Solomonoff induction. I had thought about the use of subroutines before I wrote my questioning critique of Solomonoff Induction. Nothing in it seems to deal with the fact that the descriptive length of reality’s

Re: [agi] How valuable is Solmononoff Induction for real world AGI?

2007-11-08 Thread William Pearson
On 08/11/2007, YKY (Yan King Yin) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the input. There's one perplexing theorem, in the paper about the algorithmic complexity of programming, that the language doesn't matter that much, ie, the algorithmic complexity of a program in different languages only

RE: [agi] definition source?

2007-11-08 Thread Harvey Newstrom
Jiri Jelinek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, All, I don't want to trigger a long AGI definition talk, but can one or two of you briefly tell me what might be wrong with the definition I mentioned in the initial post: General intelligence is the ability to gain knowledge in one context and

Re: [agi] How valuable is Solmononoff Induction for real world AGI?

2007-11-08 Thread William Pearson
On 08/11/2007, Jef Allbright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sorry I'm not going to be able to provide much illumination for you at this time. Just the few sentences of yours quoted above, while of a level of comprehension equal or better than average on this list, demonstrate epistemological

Re: [agi] definition source?

2007-11-08 Thread Benjamin Johnston
I think the point that BillK was getting at in posting the collection of definitions is that there is no one definition. Intelligence and general intelligence is one of those things that is hard to define, but we (probably) know it when we see it. If you can't find a source for your

RE: [agi] How valuable is Solmononoff Induction for real world AGI?

2007-11-08 Thread Edward W. Porter
Derek, Thank you. I think the list should be a place where people can debate and criticize ideas, but I think such poorly reasoned and insulting flames like Jefs are not helpful, particularly if they are driving potentially valuable contributors like you off the list. Luckily such flames

RE: [agi] How valuable is Solmononoff Induction for real world AGI?

2007-11-08 Thread Edward W. Porter
Jeff, In your below flame you spent much more energy conveying contempt than knowledge. Since I don’t have time to respond to all of your attacks, let us, for example, just look at the last two: MY PRIOR POST ...affect the event's probability... JEF’S PUT DOWN 1More coherently, you might

Re: [agi] definition source?

2007-11-08 Thread Jiri Jelinek
BillK, thanks for the link. All, I don't want to trigger a long AGI definition talk, but can one or two of you briefly tell me what might be wrong with the definition I mentioned in the initial post: General intelligence is the ability to gain knowledge in one context and correctly apply it in

RE: [agi] How valuable is Solmononoff Induction for real world AGI?

2007-11-08 Thread Derek Zahn
Edward, For some reason, this list has become one of the most hostile and poisonous discussion forums around. I admire your determined effort to hold substantive conversations here, and hope you continue. Many of us have simply given up. - This list is sponsored by AGIRI:

RE: [agi] How valuable is Solmononoff Induction for real world AGI?

2007-11-08 Thread Edward W. Porter
Cool! -Original Message- From: Benjamin Goertzel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 12:56 PM To: agi@v2.listbox.com Subject: Re: [agi] How valuable is Solmononoff Induction for real world AGI? Yeah, we use Occam's razor heuristics in Novamente, and they are

Re: [agi] NLP + reasoning?

2007-11-08 Thread Lukasz Kaiser
Hi Linas, Aside from Novamente and CYC, who else has attempted to staple NLP to a reasoning engine? ... I see the issues have been discussed thoroughly already, but I did not see anyone actually answering your question. Many people indeed have tried to staple NLP to a reasoner, and even though

Re: [agi] Soliciting Papers for Workshop on the Broader Implications of AGI

2007-11-08 Thread Bob Mottram
Some thoughts on current trends and their societal implications: If autonomous vehicles become commonplace this obviously has economic implications for all those industries which rely upon the unreliability of human drivers, and also for those workers whose jobs is oriented around driving.

Re: [agi] How valuable is Solmononoff Induction for real world AGI?

2007-11-08 Thread Jef Allbright
On 11/8/07, Edward W. Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeff, In your below flame you spent much more energy conveying contempt than knowledge. I'll readily apologize again for the ineffectiveness of my presentation, but I meant no contempt. Since I don't have time to respond to all of your

Re: [agi] How valuable is Solmononoff Induction for real world AGI?

2007-11-08 Thread Jef Allbright
On 11/8/07, Edward W. Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In my attempt to respond quickly I did not intended to attack him or his paper Edward - I never thought you were attacking me. I certainly did attack some of your statements, but I never attacked you. It's not my paper, just one that I

Re: [agi] How valuable is Solmononoff Induction for real world AGI?

2007-11-08 Thread Lukasz Stafiniak
On 11/8/07, Edward W. Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HOW VALUABLE IS SOLMONONOFF INDUCTION FOR REAL WORLD AGI? I will use the opportunity to advertise my equation extraction of the Marcus Hutter UAI book. And there is a section at the end about Juergen Schmidhuber's ideas, from the older

RE: [agi] How valuable is Solmononoff Induction for real world AGI?

2007-11-08 Thread Edward W. Porter
Jef, ED (I have switched “” to make it even easier to quickly see each change in speaker) Thank you for your two posts seeking to clear up the misunderstanding between us. I don’t mind disagreements if they seek to convey meaningful content, not just negativity. You post of

RE: [agi] How valuable is Solmononoff Induction for real world AGI?

2007-11-08 Thread Edward W. Porter
Lukasz Stafiniak wrote in part on Thu 11/8/2007 11:54 AM LUKASZ ## I think the main point is: Bayesian reasoning is about conditional distributions, and Solomonoff / Hutter's work is about conditional complexities. (Although directly taking conditional Kolmogorov complexity didn't work,

Re: [agi] NLP + reasoning?

2007-11-08 Thread Jiri Jelinek
On Nov 5, 2007 7:01 PM, Jiri Jelinek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 4, 2007 12:40 PM, Matt Mahoney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you propose to measure intelligence in a proof of concept? Hmmm, let me check my schedule... Ok, I'll figure this out on Thursday night (unless I get hit by a