Re: [agi] Pretty worldchanging

2010-07-24 Thread Panu Horsmalahti
Availibility of the Internet actually makes school grades worse. Of course, grades does not equal education, but I don't see anything worldchanging about education because of this. - Panu Horsmalahti --- agi Archives:

RE: [agi] How do we hear music

2010-07-24 Thread John G. Rose
-Original Message- You have all missed one vital point. Music is repeating and it has a symmetry. In dancing (song and dance) moves are repeated in a symmetrical pattern. Question why are we programmed to find symmetry? This question may be more core to AGI than appears at first

Re: [agi] Pretty worldchanging

2010-07-24 Thread Ben Goertzel
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 5:36 AM, Panu Horsmalahti nawi...@gmail.com wrote: Availibility of the Internet actually makes school grades worse. Of course, grades does not equal education, but I don't see anything worldchanging about education because of this. - Panu Horsmalahti Hmmm I

Re: [agi] Huge Progress on the Core of AGI

2010-07-24 Thread David Jones
lol. thanks Jim :) On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 10:08 PM, Jim Bromer jimbro...@gmail.com wrote: I have to say that I am proud of David Jone's efforts. He has really matured during these last few months. I'm kidding but I really do respect the fact that he is actively experimenting. I want to

Re: [agi] Re: Huge Progress on the Core of AGI

2010-07-24 Thread David Jones
Abram, I haven't found a method that I think works consistently yet. Basically I was trying methods like the one you suggested, which measures the number of correct predictions or expectations. But, then I ran into the problem of, what if the predictions you are counting are more of the same? Do

Re: [agi] Huge Progress on the Core of AGI

2010-07-24 Thread A. T. Murray
The Web site of David Jones at http://practicalai.org is quite impressive to me as a kindred spirit building AGI. (Just today I have been coding MindForth AGI :-) For his Practical AI Challenge or similar ventures, I would hope that David Jones is open to the idea of aggregating or archiving

[agi] Clues to the Mind: What do you think is the reason for selective attention

2010-07-24 Thread deepakjnath
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJG698U2Mvo Can anyone suggest why our brains exhibit this phenomenon? cheers, Deepak --- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your

Re: [agi] Re: Huge Progress on the Core of AGI

2010-07-24 Thread David Jones
Abram, I should also mention that I ran into problems mainly because I was having a hard time deciding how to identify objects and determine what is really going on in a scene. This adds a whole other layer of complexity to hypotheses. It's not just about what is more predictive of the

Re: [agi] Comments On My Skepticism of Solomonoff Induction

2010-07-24 Thread Jim Bromer
Solomonoff Induction may require a trans-infinite level of complexity just to run each program. Suppose each program is iterated through the enumeration of its instructions. Then, not only do the infinity of possible programs need to be run, many combinations of the infinite programs from each

Re: [agi] Comments On My Skepticism of Solomonoff Induction

2010-07-24 Thread Jim Bromer
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Jim Bromer jimbro...@gmail.com wrote: Solomonoff Induction may require a trans-infinite level of complexity just to run each program. Suppose each program is iterated through the enumeration of its instructions. Then, not only do the infinity of possible

Re: [agi] Clues to the Mind: What do you think is the reason for selective attention

2010-07-24 Thread Anastasios Tsiolakidis
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 7:07 PM, deepakjnath deepakjn...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJG698U2Mvo Can anyone suggest why our brains exhibit this phenomenon? May I flag this as AGI irrelevant? The brain at a non-AGI task is not that interesting for AGI, me thinks. Plus, we

Re: [agi] Re: Huge Progress on the Core of AGI

2010-07-24 Thread Matt Mahoney
David Jones wrote: I should also mention that I ran into problems mainly because I was having a hard time deciding how to identify objects and determine what is really going on in a scene. I think that your approach makes the problem harder than it needs to be (not that it is easy). Natural

Re: [agi] Comments On My Skepticism of Solomonoff Induction

2010-07-24 Thread Matt Mahoney
Jim Bromer wrote: Solomonoff Induction may require a trans-infinite level of complexity just to run each program. Trans-infinite is not a mathematically defined term as far as I can tell. Maybe you mean larger than infinity, as in the infinite set of real numbers is larger than the infinite

Re: [agi] Re: Huge Progress on the Core of AGI

2010-07-24 Thread Mike Tintner
Huh, Matt? What examples of this holistic scene analysis are there (or are you thinking about)? From: Matt Mahoney Sent: Saturday, July 24, 2010 10:25 PM To: agi Subject: Re: [agi] Re: Huge Progress on the Core of AGI David Jones wrote: I should also mention that I ran into problems mainly

Re: [agi] Comments On My Skepticism of Solomonoff Induction

2010-07-24 Thread Jim Bromer
Abram, II use constructivist's and intuitionist's (and for that matter finitist's) methods when they seem useful to me. I often make mistakes when I am not wary of constructivist issues. Constructist criticisms are interesting because they can be turned against any presumptive method even though

Re: [agi] Re: Huge Progress on the Core of AGI

2010-07-24 Thread Matt Mahoney
Mike Tintner wrote: Huh, Matt? What examples of this holistic scene analysis are there (or are you thinking about)? I mean a neural model with increasingly complex features, as opposed to an algorithmic 3-D model (like video game graphics in reverse). Of course David rejects such ideas (

Re: [agi] Re: Huge Progress on the Core of AGI

2010-07-24 Thread David Jones
Matt, Any method must deal with similar, if not the same, ambiguities. You need to show how neural nets solve this problem or how they solve agi goals while completely skipping the problem. Until then, it is not a successful method. Dave On Jul 24, 2010 7:18 PM, Matt Mahoney

Re: [agi] Pretty worldchanging

2010-07-24 Thread Boris Kazachenko
Maybe there are some students on this email list, who are wading through all the BS and learning something about AGI, by following links and reading papers mentioned here, etc. Without the Net, how would these students learn about AGI, in practice? Such education would be far harder to come

Re: [agi] Re: Huge Progress on the Core of AGI

2010-07-24 Thread Mike Tintner
Matt: I mean a neural model with increasingly complex features, as opposed to an algorithmic 3-D model (like video game graphics in reverse). Of course David rejects such ideas ( http://practicalai.org/Prize/Default.aspx ) even though the one proven working vision model uses it. Which is?

Re: [agi] Re: Huge Progress on the Core of AGI

2010-07-24 Thread Matt Mahoney
Mike Tintner wrote: Which is? The one right behind your eyes. -- Matt Mahoney, matmaho...@yahoo.com From: Mike Tintner tint...@blueyonder.co.uk To: agi agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Sat, July 24, 2010 9:00:42 PM Subject: Re: [agi] Re: Huge Progress on the Core

Re: [agi] Re: Huge Progress on the Core of AGI

2010-07-24 Thread David Jones
Check this out! The title Space and time, not surface features, guide object persistence says it all. http://pbr.psychonomic-journals.org/content/14/6/1199.full.pdf Over just the last couple days I have begun to realize that they are so right. My idea before of using high frame rates is also

Re: [agi] Re: Huge Progress on the Core of AGI

2010-07-24 Thread David Jones
This is absolutely incredible. The answer was right there in the last paragraph: The present experiments suggest that the computation of object persistence appears to rely so heavily upon spatiotemporal information that it will not (or at least is unlikely to) use otherwise available surface

Re: [agi] Clues to the Mind: What do you think is the reason for selective attention

2010-07-24 Thread deepakjnath
Thanks Dave, its very interesting. This gives us more clues in to how the brain compresses and uses the relevant information while neglecting the irrelevant information. But as Anast has demonstrated, the brain does need priming inorder to decide what is relevant and irrelevant. :) Cheers, Deepak

[agi] Clues to the Mind: Illusions / Vision

2010-07-24 Thread deepakjnath
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbKw0_v2clofeature=player_embedded What we see is not really what you see. Its what you see and what you know you are seeing. The brain superimposes the predicted images to the viewed image to actually have a perception of image. cheers, Deepak

Re: [agi] Clues to the Mind: Illusions / Vision

2010-07-24 Thread David Jones
Yes. I think I may have discovered the keys to crack this puzzle wide open. The brain seems to use simplistic heuristics for depth perception and surface bounding. Once it has that, it can apply the spaciotemporal heuristic I mentioned in other emails to identify and track an object, which allows