Re: [agi] Computer Vision not as hard as I thought!

2010-08-04 Thread Jim Bromer
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 11:52 AM, David Jones davidher...@gmail.com wrote: I've suddenly realized that computer vision of real images is very much solvable and that it is now just a matter of engineering... I've also realized that I don't actually have to implement it, which is what is most

Re: [agi] Computer Vision not as hard as I thought!

2010-08-04 Thread David Jones
:D Thanks Jim for paying attention! One very cool thing about the human brain is that we use multiple feedback mechanisms to correct for such problems as observer movement. For example, the inner ear senses your bodies movement and provides feedback for visual processing. This is why we get

Re: [agi] Computer Vision not as hard as I thought!

2010-08-04 Thread David Jones
Steve, I wouldn't say that's an accurate description of what I wrote. What a wrote was a way to think about how to solve computer vision. My approach to artificial intelligence is a Neat approach. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neats_vs._scruffies The paper you attached is a Scruffy approach.

Re: [agi] Computer Vision not as hard as I thought!

2010-08-04 Thread Steve Richfield
David, You are correct in that I keep bad company. My approach to NNs is VERY different than other people's approaches. I insist on reasonable math being performed on quantities that I understand, which sets me apart from just about everyone else. Your neat approach isn't all that neat, and is

Re: [agi] Computer Vision not as hard as I thought!

2010-08-04 Thread David Jones
Steve, Sorry if I misunderstood your approach. I do not really understand how it would work though because it is not clear how you go from inputs to output goals. It likely will still have many of the same problems as other neural networks including 1) poor knowledge portability 2) difficult to

Re: [agi] Computer Vision not as hard as I thought!

2010-08-04 Thread Steve Richfield
David On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 1:16 PM, David Jones davidher...@gmail.com wrote: 3) requires manually created training data, which is a major problem. Where did this come from. Certainly, people are ill equipped to create dP/dt type data. These would have to come from sensors. 4) is designed

Re: [agi] Computer Vision not as hard as I thought!

2010-08-04 Thread David Jones
Steve, I replace your need for math with my need to understand what the system is doing and why it is doing it. It's basically the same thing. But you are approaching it at an extremely low level. It doesn't seem to me that you are clear on how this math makes the system work the way we want it

Re: [agi] Computer Vision not as hard as I thought!

2010-08-04 Thread Steve Richfield
David, On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 1:45 PM, David Jones davidher...@gmail.com wrote: Understanding what you are trying to accomplish and how you want the system to work comes first, not math. It's all the same. First comes the qualitative, then comes the quantitative. If your neural net

Re: [agi] Computer Vision not as hard as I thought!

2010-08-04 Thread David Jones
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 6:17 PM, Steve Richfield steve.richfi...@gmail.comwrote: David, On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 1:45 PM, David Jones davidher...@gmail.com wrote: Understanding what you are trying to accomplish and how you want the system to work comes first, not math. It's all the same.

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

2010-08-04 Thread Jim Bromer
Abram, Thanks for the explanation. I still don't get it. Your function may be convergent but it is not a probability. You said that Solomonoff's original construction involved flipping a coin for the next bit. What good does that do? And how does that prove that his original idea was

Re: [agi] Shhh!

2010-08-04 Thread Jim Bromer
I meant I am able to construct an algorithm that is capable of reaching every expansion of a real number given infinite resources. However, the algorithm is never able to write any of them completely since they are all infinite. So in one sense, no computation is able to write any real number,

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

2010-08-04 Thread Abram Demski
Jim, Your function may be convergent but it is not a probability. True! All the possibilities sum to less than 1. There are ways of addressing this (ie, multiply by a normalizing constant which must also be approximated in a convergent manner), but for the most part adherents of Solomonoff

[agi] The Wrong Stuff (Norvig interview)

2010-08-04 Thread A. T. Murray
The Wrong Stuff : Error Message: Google Research Director Peter Norbig on Being Wrong http://bit.ly/cQpUpx translates to http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/thewrongstuff/archive/2010/08/03/error-message-google-research-director-peter-norvig-on-being-wrong.aspx