Re: [agi] Philosophy of General Intelligence

2008-09-09 Thread Mike Tintner
Narrow AI : Stereotypical/ Patterned/ Rational Matt: Suppose you write a program that inputs jokes or cartoons and outputs whether or not they are funny AGI : Stereotype-/Pattern-breaking/Creative What you rebellin' against? Whatcha got? Marlon Brando. The Wild One (1953) On screen,

Re: [agi] Does prior knowledge/learning cause GAs to converge too fast on sub-optimal solutions?

2008-09-09 Thread William Pearson
2008/9/8 Benjamin Johnston [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Does this issue actually crop up in GA-based AGI work? If so, how did you get around it? If not, would you have any comments about what makes AGI special so that this doesn't happen? Does it also happen in humans? I'd say yes, therefore it might

[agi] any advice

2008-09-09 Thread Valentina Poletti
I am applying for a research program and I have to chose between these two schools: Dalle Molle Institute of Artificial Intelligence University of Verona (Artificial Intelligence dept) --- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS

Re: [agi] any advice

2008-09-09 Thread Jan Klauck
Dalle Molle Institute of Artificial Intelligence University of Verona (Artificial Intelligence dept) If they were corporations, from which one would you buy shares? I would go for IDSIA. I mean, hey, you have Schmidhuber around. :) Jan --- agi

[agi] Artificial humor

2008-09-09 Thread Matt Mahoney
A model of artificial humor, a machine that tells jokes, or at least inputs jokes and outputs whether or not they are funny. Identify associations of the form (A ~ B) and (B ~ C) in the audience language model where (A ~ C) is believed to be false or unlikely through other associations. Test

Re: [agi] Artificial humor

2008-09-09 Thread Mike Tintner
Matt, Humor is dependent not on inductive reasoning by association, reversed or otherwise, but on the crossing of whole matrices/ spaces/ scripts .. and that good old AGI standby, domains. See Koestler esp. for how it's one version of all creativity -

[agi] OpenCogPrime tutorial tomorrow nightlll

2008-09-09 Thread Ben Goertzel
The introductory OpenCogPrime tutorial will be tomorrow night... http://opencog.org/wiki/OpenCogPrime:TutorialSessions I'm flying home from California on the red-eye tonight so don't expect me to be fully lucid, but hey ;-) ben -- Ben Goertzel, PhD CEO, Novamente LLC and Biomind LLC Director