Re: [agi] No Shit AI

2010-07-31 Thread Mike Archbold
I agree -- these things suck. I have spent time trying to fool the sensor. It brings up the bigger issue of what makes good technology vs. what is not a good use of technology. A lot of technology I simply hate, like digital pictures (intended for some aesthetic use). We have to be selective

Re: [agi] How do we hear music

2010-07-22 Thread Mike Archbold
in evolution. Just a guess. Mike Archbold cheers, Deepak *agi* | Archives https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ | Modifyhttps://www.listbox.com/member/?;Your Subscription http://www.listbox.com

Re: [agi] Cloud Intelligence

2008-10-29 Thread Mike Archbold
I guess I don't see how cloud computing is materially different from open source in so much as we see the sharing of resources and also now increased availability, no need to buy so much hardware at the outset. But it seems more a case of convenience. So what does that have to do with AGI? I

Re: [agi] Meet the world's first robot controlled exclusively by living brain tissue

2008-08-14 Thread Mike Archbold
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

Re: [agi] aversion to philosophy

2008-08-05 Thread Mike Archbold
OK, this brings up something that I'd like to pose to the list as a whole. I realize this will be a somewhat antagonistic question - my intent here is not to offend (or to single anyone out), especially since I could be wrong. But my impression is that with some exceptions, AI researchers

Re: What does it do? useful in AGI? Re: [agi] US PATENT ISSUED for the TEN ETHICAL LAWS OF ROBOTICS

2008-07-23 Thread Mike Archbold
2008/7/22 Mike Archbold [EMAIL PROTECTED]: It looks to me to be borrowed from Aristotle's ethics. Back in my college days, I was trying to explain my project and the professor kept interrupting me to ask: What does it do? Tell me what it does. I don't understand what your system does

Re: [agi] TOE -- US PATENT ISSUED for the TEN ETHICAL LAWS OF ROBOTICS

2008-07-22 Thread Mike Archbold
- Original Message - From: Mike Archbold [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 1:04 PM Subject: Re: [agi] US PATENT ISSUED for the TEN ETHICAL LAWS OF ROBOTICS It looks to me to be borrowed from Aristotle's ethics. Back in my college days, I

Re: FW: [agi] WHAT PORTION OF CORTICAL PROCESSES ARE BOUND BY THE BINDING PROBLEM?

2008-07-15 Thread Mike Archbold
it is deduction as far as I've ever heard of. With induction we are implying repeated observations that lead to some new knowledge (ie., some new rule in this case). That was my understanding anyway, and I'm no PhD scientist. Mike Archbold --- agi Archives

Re: [agi] the uncomputable

2008-06-17 Thread Mike Archbold
and a loosely-knit individual, where AI is concerned. So I argue that if a society can (and should) hypercompute, there is no reason to suspect that an individual can't (or shouldn't). On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 11:37 PM, Mike Archbold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure that I'm responding to your

Re: [agi] the uncomputable

2008-06-17 Thread Mike Archbold
Mike Archbold, It seems you've made a counterargument without meaning to. When we make this transition, it seems to me that the shift is so radical that it is impossible to justify making the step, because as I mentioned it involves a surreptitious shift from quantity to quality. I

Re: [agi] the uncomputable

2008-06-16 Thread Mike Archbold
in his Science of Logic, which I think is a good ontology in general because it mixes up a lot of issues AI struggles with, like the ideal nature of quality and quantity, and also infinity. Mike Archbold Seattle The paper includes a study of the uncomputable busy beaver function up to x=6

Re: [agi] the uncomputable

2008-06-16 Thread Mike Archbold
and I realize there aren't a log of hegelians around. But, tomorrow I will read further. Mike On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 9:19 PM, Mike Archbold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I previously posted here claiming that the human mind (and therefore an ideal AGI) entertains uncomputable models, counter