Re: An AGI is supposed to be able to understand [WAS Re: [agi] AGI and Wiki...]

2008-05-19 Thread Steve Richfield
Richard, Rather than getting lost in responding to the details of your posting, my entire discussion hinged on one apparent fact that may be in dispute here. With all of the challenges of the English language, I will try to make a short statement of that apparent fact. You can listen to a

Re: [agi] Uninterpreted RDF terms

2008-05-19 Thread YKY (Yan King Yin)
On 5/18/08, Stephen Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the others on this list following my progress, the example is from a set of essential capability descriptions that I'll use to bootstrap the skill acquisition facility of the the Texai dialog system. The subsumption-based capability matcher

Re: [agi] Porting MindForth AI into JavaScript Mind.html

2008-05-19 Thread Jim Bromer
I apologize for making the criticism that Bob M. had made the dubious assertion of his own superiority, but I really am skeptical of the efficacy of these meta-discussion criticisms and you have to wonder what they say about the contributors to them. I really think there is a fine line between

Re: An AGI is supposed to be able to understand [WAS Re: [agi] AGI and Wiki...]

2008-05-19 Thread Mike Tintner
Steve:You can read the same passage and completely understand what it says. However, when YOU (and not some imperfect computer program that you might design and write) sit down and carefully identify parts of speech, construct the potential diagrams for the sentence, go through domain-specific

[agi] AI in virtual worlds -- popular press

2008-05-19 Thread Derek Zahn
For those who might not have seen it yet, seems this concept is becoming rather popular: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24668099/ --- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/

Re: An AGI is supposed to be able to understand [WAS Re: [agi] AGI and Wiki...]

2008-05-19 Thread Richard Loosemore
Steve Richfield wrote: Richard, Rather than getting lost in responding to the details of your posting, my entire discussion hinged on one apparent fact that may be in dispute here. With all of the challenges of the English language, I will try to make a short statement of that apparent

Re: [agi] Porting MindForth AI into JavaScript Mind.html

2008-05-19 Thread Mark Waser
It's really nice to be appreciated . . . . :-) but, everyone needs to work at making this list a good place. A few suggestions: 1.. Don't feed the trolls - Please don't reply to (or even notice) Mike Tintner or Mentifex/Murray 2.. Don't be amazed at your own brilliance 1 - If you think

Re: [agi] Porting MindForth AI into JavaScript Mind.html

2008-05-19 Thread Vladimir Nesov
I'll add to Mark's list: 10. Don't talk if you can't communicate your idea. If you need to repeat the same thing 3 times, you are doing something wrong. When you *can't* find a way to communicate your idea, stop talking, and come back when you've written it up. -- Vladimir Nesov [EMAIL

[agi] AI job in Arlington, VA (DARPA)

2008-05-19 Thread Jiri Jelinek
I got the below info from my supervisor. Contact me off-list if interested. Thanks, Jiri Jelinek We are looking for a person with the following: - Artificial Intelligence background, preferably with modeling and simulation experience. -

RE: [agi] AI in virtual worlds -- popular press

2008-05-19 Thread John G. Rose
RPI for decades has been working various cutting edge AI projects. And IBM is a long time sponsor. Better than Second Life, is a virtual world modeled after the real world. Like Google Earth with its model buildings, as it gets better, having AI entities serve useful purposes. So a virtual

Re: [agi] The sound of silence (or is that science?)

2008-05-19 Thread Steve Richfield
Brad and Josh, On 5/19/08, Brad Paulsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, Gang! Hmmm. Sure is quiet around here lately. Maybe people are actually getting some (more) work done? Catching up on their respective AI reading lists? ;-) I know I am. Reading Josh's book (Beyond AI - Creating the