[agi] WHAT ARE THE MISSING CONCEPTUAL PIECES IN AGI?

2008-04-19 Thread Ed Porter
WHAT ARE THE MISSING CONCEPTUAL PIECES IN AGI? With the work done by Goertzel et al, Pei, Joscha Bach http://www.micropsi.org/ , Sam Adams, and others who spoke at AGI 2008, I feel we pretty much conceptually understand how build powerful AGI's. I'm not necessarily saying we know all the pieces

Re: [agi] WHAT ARE THE MISSING CONCEPTUAL PIECES IN AGI?

2008-04-19 Thread Matt Mahoney
--- Ed Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: WHAT ARE THE MISSING CONCEPTUAL PIECES IN AGI? - Lack of well defined goals. What defines AGI? A better spam filter? A robotic housemaid? Automating all human labor? - Inability to reverse engineer the human brain. Why do we need 10^15 synapses to

Re: [agi] WHAT ARE THE MISSING CONCEPTUAL PIECES IN AGI?

2008-04-19 Thread Stephen Reed
Hi Ed, As most already know, the problem I am trying to solve involves knowledge and skill acquisition to achieve AGI. The proposed solution is a bootstrap English dialog system, backed by a knowledge base based upon OpenCyc and greatly elaborated with lexical information from WordNet,

Re: [agi] WHAT ARE THE MISSING CONCEPTUAL PIECES IN AGI?

2008-04-19 Thread Charles D Hixson
Ed Porter wrote: WHAT ARE THE MISSING CONCEPTUAL PIECES IN AGI? One that appears to me to be missing, or at least not emphasized, is that general intelligence is inefficient compared to specialized techniques. In any particular sub-domain specialized intelligence will be able to employ

Re: Computational requirements of AGI (Re: [agi] database access fast enough?)

2008-04-19 Thread Steve Richfield
Matt, On 4/17/08, Matt Mahoney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Before giving my detailed comments, I'd like to comment that people who have spent decades in wet laboratories know a **LOT** more than they are willing to write down. Why? THEIR culture is to not write things down until you can PROVE them

Re: Open source (was Re: [agi] The Strange Loop of AGI Funding: now logically proved!)

2008-04-19 Thread Steve Richfield
Matt, et al, On 4/18/08, Matt Mahoney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For this reason, I'm tempted to opensource my stuff, but where would be my compensation? Do I really HAVE to sacrifice my pay check...?? Not at all. I released most of my data compression software under GPL. If a company

Re: Computational requirements of AGI (Re: [agi] database access fast enough?)

2008-04-19 Thread Matt Mahoney
--- Steve Richfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/17/08, Matt Mahoney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Blue Brain project estimates 8000 synapses per neuron in mouse cortex. I haven't read the report, but I presume that is a PHYSICAL number developed from microscopy. Typically, 1% have