On 10 August 2010 16:44, Ben Goertzel b...@goertzel.org wrote:
I'm writing an article on the topic for H+ Magazine, which will appear in the
next couple weeks ... I'll post a link to it when it appears
I'm not advocating applying AI in the absence of new experiments of course.
I've been
On 10 August 2010 18:43, Bob Mottram fuzz...@gmail.com wrote:
here. For example, if an epidemic breaks out, why should you
vaccinate first?
That should have been who rather than why :-)
Just thinking a little further, in hand waving mode, If something like
the common cold were added
2009/1/15 Ronald C. Blue ronb...@u2ai.us:
Bayesian surprise attracts human attention http://tinyurl.com/77p9xo
Sounds interesting. In my opinion any research carried out at
universities using public money should be available to the public,
without additional charges.
2009/1/14 Valentina Poletti jamwa...@gmail.com:
Anyways my point is, the reason why we have achieved so much technology, so
much knowledge in this time is precisely the we, it's the union of several
individuals together with their ability to communicate with one-other that
has made us advance
2009/1/12 Ben Goertzel b...@goertzel.org:
AGI company A2I2 has released a product for automating call center
functionality
We value your interest in our AGI related service.
If you agree that AGI can have useful applications for call centres, press 1
If our AGI repeatedly misinterprets your
2008/12/21 Ben Goertzel b...@goertzel.org:
However, IMO the rhetoric associating it with thinking machine building is
premature and borderline dishonest. It's marketing rhetoric. It's more
like interesting brain simulation research that could eventually play a
role in some future
2008/12/11 Mike Tintner tint...@blueyonder.co.uk:
If you try and reduce those maps to any other form, e.g. some mathematical
or program form, you *lose the object.* It's equivalent to taking a jigsaw
puzzle to pieces - all you have are the pieces, and you've lost the picture
- the whole.
2008/12/11 Mike Tintner [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
*Ben Goertzel is a continuously changing reality. At 10.05 pm he will be
different from 10.00pm, and so on. He is in fact many individuals.
Based on some of the stuff which I've been doing with SLAM algorithms
I'd agree with this sort of
2008/12/11 Mike Tintner tint...@blueyonder.co.uk:
But an image/movie can only be compared with a verbal statement in terms of
what it *actually shows* - the *surface, visible action.* His actual,
observable dialogue and gestures and expressions - that and only that is
what a movie records
2008/12/11 Mike Tintner tint...@blueyonder.co.uk:
There is no problem though seeing the entities and movements in a movie -
Ben, say, raising his hand, or shaking Steve's hand, or laughing or making
some other facial expression. Sure, we can argue and/or be confused about
the significance and
2008/12/8 Richard Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Another indication that we need to take the public relations issue very
seriously indeed: as time passes, this problem of the public attitude (and
especially the religious attitude) to NBIC technologies will only become
more extreme:
People who
2008/11/26 Ed Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
As we learn just how common exoplanets are, the possibility that aliens have
visited earth seems increasingly scientifically believable
I'm not sure that alien visitation logically follows from the
discovery of exoplanets.
There have, in fact, been
2008/11/26 Ed Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I have never experienced a UFO, but several people I have known and
generally trusted, and who are not drug users or wackos, have claimed to
have seen them directly.
belief (Y, foo)
belief (X, credibility (Y) minimum credibility (X)) || dominance
2008/11/21 Mike Tintner [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/Battle-lines-forming-nascent-robotics/story.aspx?guid={FA2B30F1-B78B-4E33-91A4-F7F3D07DECCB}
The biggest growth area for robotics in the next few years I think is
going to be telerobots, allowing mobile
2008/11/21 Charles Hixson [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
The thing is, MS systems tend to be extremely inflexible. I.e., they are
flexible within their predefined fixed limitations, and outside of that you
need to constantly fight the system to get anywhere. To me this doesn't
sound like a good
2008/11/20 Vladimir Nesov [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Here's a link to the paper:
http://wpcarey.asu.edu/pubs/index.cfm?fct=detailsarticle_cobid=2216410author_cobid=1039524journal_cobid=2216411
This doesn't sound especially controversial to me. Clearly there are
systems in the brain which control
2008/11/18 Steve Richfield [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I am considering putting up a web site to filter the crazies as follows,
and would appreciate all comments, suggestions, etc.
This all sounds peachy in principle, but I expect it would exclude
virtually everyone except perhaps a few of the most
2008/11/17 Mike Tintner [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Comment on Marketwatch forum today:
Lots of talk about the New World Order (MWO)... what really bothers me
about the NWO is that there are bound to be lots of robots involved. I hate
robots.
The way I look at it, once we have robots with
2008/11/8 Ben Goertzel [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
http://multiverseaccordingtoben.blogspot.com/2008/11/in-search-of-machines-of-loving-grace.html
On the Ishiguru robot and uncanny valley I think the simulation which
we're creating of other people is closely based upon the sort of
multi-modal
2008/11/5 Richard Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
At the end of the
day, if you end up with some problems in the code because you transcribed it
wrong, how would you even begin to debug it?
Brains and digital computers are very different kinds of machinery.
If I were to copy the circuits of a
2008/11/1 Joel Pitt [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
My commitment is with OpenCog at the moment - but this looks like a
really cool project/job that may suit some of you on this list :)
It sounds like cool stuff for sure, but in the last few years I've had
experience of American tech companies
http://kryten.mm.rpi.edu/PRES/SYNCHARIBM0807/sb_ka_etal_cogrobustsynchar_082107v1.mov
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2008/10/29 Samantha Atkins [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
John G. Rose wrote:
Has anyone done some analysis on cloud computing, in particular the recent
trend and coming out of clouds with multiple startup efforts in this space?
And their relationship to AGI type applications?
Beware of putting too
2008/10/21 Matt Mahoney [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
More generally, people learn algebra and higher mathematics by induction, by
generalizing from lots of examples.
5 * 7 = 35 - 35 / 7 = 5
4 * 6 = 24 - 24 / 6 = 4
etc...
a * b = c - c = b / a
Not only this though. If I remember correctly from
2008/10/21 Dr. Matthias Heger [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
There is another point which indicates that the ability to understand
language or to learn language does not imply *general* intelligence.
You can often observe in school that linguistic talents are poor in
mathematics and vice versa.
The
2008/10/18 Eric Burton [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/industry/4287680.html?series=60
Some thoughts on this:
http://streebgreebling.blogspot.com/2008/10/will-wright-on-ai.html
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2008/10/17 Ben Goertzel [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Including a brief article by me about open-source robotics, that I wrote
back in April...
Open source robotics may eventually occur, but I think it will require
some common and relatively affordable platforms. It becomes much
easier to usefully
2008/10/17 Bryan Bishop [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Bob, it's already happening behind your back, and I'm not talking
about iCub. While platform standardization is important, there's other
things that you can do like write cross-platform compatible
applications and compilers, or working on rounding up
2008/10/15 Ben Goertzel [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
What are your thoughts on this?
I, for one, would welcome more Type 1s and fewer Type 2s.
I realize, having observed AI related forums and lists for longer than
I care to admit, that Type 2s constitute the principle mass of the
gossip distribution.
2008/10/10 YKY (Yan King Yin) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 11:33 PM, Russell Wallace
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was trying to find a way so we can collaborate on one project, but
people don't seem to like the virtual credit idea.
No, no we don't :-)
Why not?
As has been
2008/10/2 Brad Paulsen [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
It boasts a 50% recognition accuracy rate +/-5 years and an 80%
recognition accuracy rate +/-10 years. Unless, of course, the subject is
wearing a big floppy hat, makeup or has had Botox treatment recently. Or
found his dad's Ronald Reagan mask.
2008/9/20 Valentina Poletti [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
The lectures are pretty good in quality, compared with other major
university on-line lectures (such as MIT and so forth) I followed a couple
of them and definitely recommend. You learn almost as much as in a real
course.
The introduction to
2008/9/18 Trent Waddington [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
And this is the problem. Although some people have the goal of making
an artificial person with all the richness and nuance of a sentient
creature with thoughts and feelings and yada yada yada.. some of us
are just interested in making more
As the article says, this has long been suspected but until now hadn't
been demonstrated. Edelman was describing the same phenomena as the
remembered present well over a decade ago, and his idea seems to have
been loosely inspired by ideas from Freud and James.
Remembering seems to be an act of
2008/9/5 Mike Tintner [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Past studies have shown how many neurons are involved in a single, simple
memory. Researchers might be able to isolate a few single neurons in the
process of summoning a memory, but that is like saying that they have
isolated a few water molecules in
2008/8/27 Mike Tintner [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
You on your side insist that you don't have to have such precisely defined
goals
- your intuitive (and by definition, ill-defined) sense of intelligence will
do.
As a child I don't believe that I set out with the goal of becoming a
software developer.
2008/8/28 Mike Tintner [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
(I still think of course that current AGI should have a not-so-ill
structured definition of its problem-solving goals).
It's certainly true that an AGI could be endowed with well defined
goals. Some people also begin from an early age with well
2008/8/24 Mike Tintner [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Just a v. rough, first thought. An essential requirement of an AGI is
surely that it must be able to play - so how would you design a play machine
- a machine that can play around as a child does?
Play may be about characterising the state space.
2008/8/15 Ed Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
The training issue is a real one, but presumably over time electronics that
would be part of these wetware/hardware combination brains could be
developed to train the wetware/hardware machines --- under the control
guidance of external systems at the
2008/8/14 Ed Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
A 'Frankenrobot' with a biological brain
I doubt that there will be much practical application of biological
neuron powered robots, since the overhead of keeping the biology alive
would be too troublesome (requiring feeding and removal of waste
products),
2008/8/14 Mike Tintner [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
What it comes down to is: what can you learn about any object[s] from flat
drawings of them? Cardboard cutouts?
This is essentially the same problem as in computer vision. The
objects that you're looking at are three dimensional, but a camera
image is
2008/8/14 Ciro Aisa [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 10:25:57AM +0100, Bob Mottram wrote:
I doubt that there will be much practical application of biological
neuron powered robots, since the overhead of keeping the biology alive
would be too troublesome (requiring feeding and removal
2008/8/14 Mike Tintner [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
But - correct me - when you engineer the 3D shape, you are merely applying
previous,existing knowledge about other objects to do so - which is a useful
but narrow AI function. You are not actually discovering anything new about
this particular object?
2008/8/8 Linas Vepstas [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I'm starting to wonder, is embodied experience *really* that
important?
As a roboticist I can say that a physical body resembling that of a
human isn't really all that important. You can build the most
sophisticated humanoid possible, but the problems
2008/8/8 Mike Tintner [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Now my v. garbled understanding ( please comment) is that those Carnegie
Mellon starfish robots show that such an integrated whole self is both
possible - and perhaps vital - for robots too.
Yes I agree with the idea of understanding others through
2008/8/6 Ed Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
For an indication of the complexity of primate brain hardware check out the
article at http://www.technologyreview.com/Biotech/21175/page1/ and better
yet the associated images at
http://www.technologyreview.com/player/08/08/06Singer/1.aspx (the latter
2008/8/3 Ben Goertzel [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Anyone else have an opinion on this?
Also, can we limit the use of capitalization (aka shouting). There
may be rare circumstances under which this is necessary, but most of
the time it seems to be used gratuitously.
- Bob
2008/7/21 John LaMuth [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Announcing the recently issued U.S. patent concerning ethical artificial
intelligence titled: Inductive Inference Affective Language Analyzer
Simulating AI.
This just show what a farce the US patent system has become.
2008/7/21 Matt Mahoney [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
This is a real patent, unfortunately...
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect2=PTO1Sect2=HITOFFp=1u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.htmlr=1f=Gl=50d=PALLRefSrch=yesQuery=PN%2F6587846
But I think it will expire before anyone has the technology
2008/7/11 Ed Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Interesting article about EU's open source AGI robot program at
http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=208808365
http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=208808365
The fact that iCub is open source is to be welcomed. In the past
2008/6/26 Steve Richfield [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Perhaps we can completely sidestep the countless contentious issues
regarding what intelligence is, what an AGI is, what consciousness is, what
is needed, etc., with an entirely different approach:
It's the usual pattern for participants on AI
2008/6/24 Mike Tintner [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
So here's simple evidence - look at the following foto - and note that you
can distinguish each individual in it immediately. And you can only do it
imagistically. No maths, no language, no algebraic variables, no programming
languages can tell you
2008/6/24 Mike Tintner [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
What makes every body in this world different is that it is to some extent,
IRREGULAR - CRAZY. Look at those faces again - what stamps them as
different is their irregularities, the slightly off jawlines, imbalanced
eyebrows, twisted smile and the
2008/6/22 William Pearson [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
2008/6/22 Vladimir Nesov [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Well since intelligence explosions haven't happened previously in our
light cone, it can't be a simple physical pattern
Probably the last intelligence explosion - a relatively rapid
increase in the degree
2008/6/8 Ben Goertzel [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Those of us w/ experience in the field have heard the objections you
and Tintner are making hundreds or thousands of times before. We have
already processed the arguments you're making and found them wanting.
I entirely agree with this response. To
2008/6/4 J Storrs Hall, PhD [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
What is the rock thinking?
T h i s i s w a a a y o f f t o p i c . . .
Rocks are obviously superintelligences. By behaving like inert matter
and letting us build monuments and gravel pathways out of them they're
just lulling us into a
This week's New Scientist has a fascinating article on a possible 'grand
theory' of the brain that suggests that virtually all brain functions can be
modelled with insert fashionable technique here
But seriously, I use bayes rule on an industrial scale in robotics
software. There is always a
2008/6/2 Ben Goertzel [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I think the PLN / indefinite probabilities approach is a complete and
coherent solution to the problem. It is complex, true, but these are
not simple issues...
I was wondering whether indefinite probabilities could be used to
represent a particle
An interesting case of a woman who never forgets. She describes her
memories as a continuously running movie, which she can't turn off.
http://www.onpointradio.org/shows/2008/05/20080520_b_main.asp
Perhaps we all have this kind of memory, but most of the time we only
have limited or no
2008/5/28 Mike Tintner [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
No one's yet actually trying to develop movie AI/AGI - an intelligence
that can live in and/or respond to a continuous movie[s] of the world, are
they? Ben's system, from the v. little I saw, gestures at this, but falls
short.
I'm doing stuff with
2008/5/28 Mike Tintner [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Sounds interesting. Can you give us a little more detail (or link). What
kind of robot, where? Doing what? Watching what movie? And how does it dream
- optimise/correct actions?
Link:
http://code.google.com/p/sentience/
A picture of the robot:
2008/5/26 J. Andrew Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Europe specifically excludes .NET as a development target for similar
pragmatic reasons. And developing .NET is going to suck on a non-Windows
workstation, eliminating one of the major advantages you tout. To be honest,
I do not know of anyone that
2008/5/25 Nathan Cravens [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
yet AGI has
potentially dramatic concrete consequences in one direction or another.
Money will only be made from this in the short run, and if not, for those
with a capacity to muster life, misery will prevail, unless you are the last
one or ones
2008/5/17 Jey Kottalam [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Some of the recent discussion on this list is making me wonder whether
a very similar AGI List FAQ is needed warning about the
unscientific, wacky and crank-ish discussion that takes place here.
I think Yudkowsky once said that AI remains at present
This might be of interest.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=911
The ability to discover patterns, especially from partial information,
would seem to be a central concern of AGI.
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The blog entry is amusing. I started writing software at quite young
age (about 10), and I always assumed that it was an art rather like
writing a novel or a musical composition. So when I grew older and
became employed to write programs I was shocked in my early career to
find that some people
2008/5/5 Richard Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
The goal of symbol grounding is not to guarantee uniqueness but to ensure
that the connection between the symbols and the objects they are
systematically interpretable as being about does not depend exclusively on
an interpretation projected onto
2008/5/5 Richard Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I was pointing out that the 'interpreter' (i.e. the programmer) could build
mechanisms that are only meaningful of the symbols conform to their
interpretation of what the symbols mean.
But if the system itself then builds symbols and uses them
I was just watching Ben's AGI-08 presentation on neural nets
(http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=8672459372566545966) and
this does seem like an interesting and novel idea as far as I know. I
hope Hugo de Garis was taking notes because that could be something
which he might be able to
2008/5/4 Derek Zahn [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
* Limiting people to 10-12 minutes makes it basically impossible to present
the contents of a paper, so the talks turn into project overviews. Actually
I found that to be a GOOD thing, and hope it continues that way (as long as
we don't get the same
2008/5/4 Derek Zahn [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I have a suggestion for such a task: figuring out how to operate the
buttons-and-light system that determines whose turn it is to talk during
panel discussions. It may be too ambitious though, as clearly it requires
superhuman intelligence (har har
My guess would be that this kind of approach will only be partly
successful, since fundamentally it's only based upon an elaborate kind
of 2D template matching. I think what actually happens is that during
early childhood experience we are able to statistically correlate
certain types of geometry
2008/5/1 Ben Goertzel [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
If you gathered data about how people move in a certain context, using
motion capture, then you could use their GA/NN stuff to induce a
program that would generate data similar to the motion-captured data.
A system which could do this generally
2008/4/30 J. Andrew Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
One of the amusing and fruitless patterns of behavior in
the AI community is the incessant categorization of various processes into
nominally distinct buckets in the absence of a theoretically justifiable
reason for doing so. The above is such an
2008/4/29 Ed Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
But I agree the project is really quite ambitious in that it is trying to
create an embodied robot with a real AGI for a brain.
It may well make major contributions to AGI.
It sounds like a promising start, but it should also be noted that
there have
2008/4/28 J Storrs Hall, PhD [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I drool over the physical robot -- it's built like a brick outhouse. It has 53
degrees of freedom, binocular vision, touch, audition, and inertial sensors,
harmonic drives, top-grade aircraft aluminum members, the works.
That doofy face
Incidentally this is also an open source robot.
http://eris.liralab.it/wiki/RobotCubSoftware
Mechanically sophisticated humanoids have a long history. What's
interesting about these is not how much money is spent or how many
axes are actuated but the sophistication of the software and
Personally I would like to see AIs which can operate in the real
world outside of a factory environment, and so for me there is really
no way to dodge the perception issue by confining my systems to a
limited universe of discourse. However, I concede that animal-like or
human-like intelligence
2008/4/24 Mike Tintner [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Just to illustrate further, here's the opening lines of today's Times
sports report on a football match.[Liverpool v Chelsea] How on earth could
this be understood without massive imaginative simulation? [Stephen?] And
without mainly imaginative
A paper which may be of interest to the pure linguists, or anyone
looking for information about cross modal referencing.
http://www.sv.uit.no/seksjon/psyk/pdf/laeng/LaengTeodorescu.pdf
It might be possible in theory to construct an intelligence comprised
only of linguistic concepts, but such
2008/4/24 Mike Tintner [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
The recurrent, but underlying question in many related discussions here is
whether you, ( Bob a linas), think a visual scene - let's say some
people dancing, (real life or in a picture) - can be understood
*geometrically/mathematically,* (by the
2008/4/24 Mike Tintner [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Thanks for reply, but you haven't quite answered. Geometry, in my
definition, is a systematic set of regular forms, which can be, and are,
used to deconstruct visual forms in various kinds of images.
This implies that the image contains sufficient
On 21/04/2008, Steve Richfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Of course, this constitutes a reductio ad absurdum situation establishing
that the underlying assumption, that someone is going to build AGI, is very
probably wrong.
Whoever comes up with a working AGI may be the last person you expect
On 21/04/2008, J Storrs Hall, PhD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Problem is, in brains, there are actually more nerve fibers transmitting data
from higher numbers to lower, i.e. backwards, than forwards. I think that the
interpretation of sensory input is a much more active process than we AGIers
Until a true AGI is developed I think it will remain necessary to pay
programmers to write programs, at least some of the time. You can't
always rely upon voluntary effort, especially when the problem you
want to solve is fairly obscure.
On 19/04/2008, Ben Goertzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Another problem is how to judge the impressiveness of a demo,
especially if you're a non expert. It's relatively easy to come up
with superficially impressive demos, which then turn out upon closer
investigation to be fraught with problems or just not scalable. This
seems to happen all the time
Good advice. There are of course sometimes people who are ahead of the
field, but in conversation you'll usually find that the genuine inovators
have a deep - bordering on obsessive - knowledge of the field that they're
working in and are willing to demonstrate/test their claims to anyone even
This reminds me of Rod Brooks saying that AGI may already be here but nobody
has noticed it yet. With an AGI running a nice little business for you
there may be no great incentive to advertise the fact openly to the world.
If done well with a suitably flexible AI this kind of automatic content
On 11/04/2008, Brad Paulsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What's really impressive is how natural the leg movements are. I was
flashing to images of young horses navigating rough terrain.
These only appear natural because what you're seeing is an example
of convergent evolution. The robot has to
Claims of having created an impressive AI - sans any credible evidence
- are a dime a dozen. I've lost track of how many times I've read
similar claims being made over the last decade or so, which often lead
to a brief flap of excitement.
However, I have a feeling that one of these days someone
This made me chuckle:
So after the first safe AI is built, the situation will stabilize
completely and any further change will always occur in a controlled
way that is consistent with the original design.
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On 31/03/2008, Mark Waser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Did you get the fact that once you generalize your idea enough, we're
all in complete agreement -- but that *a lot* of your specific facts are
just plain wrong (to whit -- the phrase *vision isn't just saccade-ing.
The retina does also
On 27/03/2008, Mike Tintner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
3. While philosophically, intellectually, most people dealing with this
area may expect words to have precise meanings, they know practically and
intuitively that this is impossible and work on the basis that words can
have different
On 25/03/2008, Mark Waser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You're thinking too small. The AGI will distribute itself. And money is
likely to be:
- rapidly deflated,
- then replaced with a new, alternate currency that truly values
talent and effort (rather than just playing with the
On 25/03/2008, Aki Iskandar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You can call future currency whatever you like. Yes, it is like to change
form - but certainly not purpose. And Marxism, where maybe AGI or the real
deal with deflate currency, is an unlikely aftermath of the advent of AGI.
I think the
A more likely scenario is that someone else creates an AGI and then
Microsoft copies it some time later. But seriously, if someone does manage
to produce a working AGI it's probably game over for software engineering
and software companies as we know them today.
On 24/03/2008, Aki Iskandar
Interesting. I assume that OCR programmers already know about this.
On 13/03/2008, Linas Vepstas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A bit of vision processing fun:
http://www.friends.hosted.pl/redrim/Reading_Test.jpg
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On 13/03/2008, Linas Vepstas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
object itself. How, say, do you get from a human face to the distorted
portraits of Modigliani, Picasso, Francis Bacon, Scarfe, or any
cartoonist?
By logical or mathematical formulae?
Actually, yes. Computer vision processing
One thing worth noticing is that it looks like this effect only works
provided that words with three letters or fewer are not garbled. I
think what this shows is that there is a statistical element to
reading. So provided that the beginning and ending characters are
correct, and what's in
I agree with one of the comments:
You show a video of 3 virtual characters and some dialog. There is no
way to prove what is happening is due to anything other than
predefined actions and a script.
It's always possible to contrive situations which appear intelligent
to a naive observer, but
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