Re: [agi] Lossy ** lossless compressio

2006-08-25 Thread Philip Goetz
On 8/20/06, Matt Mahoney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The argument for lossy vs. lossless compression as a test for AI seems to be motivated by the fact that humans use lossy compression to store memory, and cannot do lossless compression at all. The reason is that lossless compression requires

Re: [agi] Lossy ** lossless compressio

2006-08-25 Thread Philip Goetz
On 8/20/06, Matt Mahoney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Uncompressed video would be the absolutely worst type of test data. Uncompressed video is about 10^8 to 10^9 bits per second. The human brain has a long term learning rate of around 10 bits per second. So all the rest is noise. How are you

Re: [agi] Lossy ** lossless compressio

2006-08-25 Thread Matt Mahoney
to disagree. -- Matt Mahoney, [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message From: Philip Goetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 12:31:06 PM Subject: Re: [agi] Lossy ** lossless compressio On 8/20/06, Matt Mahoney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The argument