Re: [agi] Ben's Definition of Intelligence

2008-01-12 Thread Kaj Sotala
On 1/12/08, Mike Tintner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The primary motivation behind the Novamente AI Engine is to build a system that can achieve complex goals in complex environments, a synopsis of the definition of intelligence given in (Goertzel 1993). The emphasis is on the This is not just

Re: [agi] Definitions of Intelligence and the problem problem was Ben's Definition

2008-01-12 Thread William Pearson
My problem with both these definitions (and the one underpinning AIXI), is that they either don't define the word problem well or define it in a limited way. For example AIXI defines it as the solution of a problem as finding a function that transforms an input to an output. No mention of having

Re: [agi] Definitions of Intelligence and the problem problem was Ben's Definition

2008-01-12 Thread Vladimir Nesov
At this point I'd describe intelligent machine as being able to construct incremental internal models of wide variety of processes, based on moderately explicit information about those processes (in other words, being able to learn sufficiently general models, and to elaborate them). Using these

Re: [agi] Ben's Definition of Intelligence

2008-01-12 Thread Benjamin Goertzel
On definitions of intelligence, the canonical reference is http://www.vetta.org/shane/intelligence.html which lists 71 definitions. Apologies if someone already pointed out Shane's page in this thread, I didn't read every message carefully. An AGI definition of intelligence surely has, by

Yawn. More definitions of intelligence? [WAS Re: [agi] Ben's Definition of Intelligence]

2008-01-12 Thread Richard Loosemore
Every time a dispute erupts about what the real definition of intelligence is, all we really get is noise, because nobody is clear about the role that the definition is supposed to play. If the role is to distinguish Narrow AI from AGI, Ben's definition is fine. If the role is to define a

Re: Yawn. More definitions of intelligence? [WAS Re: [agi] Ben's Definition of Intelligence]

2008-01-12 Thread Pei Wang
On Jan 12, 2008 3:04 PM, Richard Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Every time a dispute erupts about what the real definition of intelligence is, all we really get is noise, because nobody is clear about the role that the definition is supposed to play. Richard, I fully understand how