Re: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-13 Thread James Ratcliff
It shouldnt matter how a general ontology is used, it should be available for multiple different AI and AGI processes, to be generally useful. And the key thing about this usage is it doesnt get any information from a single text, but extracts patterns from the mass usage, reading a single

Re: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-12 Thread James Ratcliff
Mainly as a primer ontology / knowledge representation data set for an AGI to work with. Having a number of facts known without having to be typed in about many frames and connections between frames gives an AGI a good booster to start with. Taken a simple set of common words in a house

RE: Distributed search (was RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research])

2007-12-12 Thread James Ratcliff
I had been thinking about something along these lines, though not worded as you have in this message yet. What I would be most interested in at this point is a knowledge gathering system somewhere along these lines, where the main AGI could be centralized/clustered or distributed, but where

Re: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-12 Thread Vladimir Nesov
On Dec 13, 2007 12:09 AM, James Ratcliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mainly as a primer ontology / knowledge representation data set for an AGI to work with. Having a number of facts known without having to be typed in about many frames and connections between frames gives an AGI a good

Re: Distributed search (was RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research])

2007-12-12 Thread Mike Dougherty
On 12/12/07, James Ratcliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This would allow a large amount of knowledge to be extracted in a distributed manner, keeping track of the quality of information gathered from each person as a trust metric, and many facts would be gathered and checked for truth.

RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-11 Thread James Ratcliff
PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 4:51 PM To: agi@v2.listbox.com Subject: RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research] Richard, What is your specific complaint about the 'viability of the framework'? Ed, This line of data gathering is very

RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-11 Thread Ed Porter
- From: James Ratcliff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 11:26 AM To: agi@v2.listbox.com Subject: RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research] Here's a basic abstract I did last year I think: http://www.falazar.com/AI

RE: Distributed search (was RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research])

2007-12-11 Thread Matt Mahoney
--- Jean-Paul Van Belle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Matt, Wonderful idea, now it will even show the typical human trait of lying...when i ask it do you still love me? most answers in its database will have Yes as an answer but when i ask it 'what's my name?' it'll call me John? My proposed

Re: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-11 Thread Vladimir Nesov
On Dec 11, 2007 7:26 PM, James Ratcliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's a basic abstract I did last year I think: http://www.falazar.com/AI/AAAI05_Student_Abtract_James_Ratcliff.pdf Would like to work with others on a full fledged Reprensentation system that could use these kind of

RE: Distributed search (was RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research])

2007-12-07 Thread Jean-Paul Van Belle
Hi Matt, Wonderful idea, now it will even show the typical human trait of lying...when i ask it do you still love me? most answers in its database will have Yes as an answer but when i ask it 'what's my name?' it'll call me John? However, your approach is actually already being implemented to

Re: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-06 Thread Mark Waser
THE KEY POINT I WAS TRYING TO GET ACROSS WAS ABOUT NOT HAVING TO EXPLICITLY DEAL WITH 500K TUPLES And I asked -- Do you believe that this is some sort of huge conceptual breakthrough? - This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options,

RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-06 Thread Ed Porter
that Collin's paper discloses. Ed Porter -Original Message- From: Mark Waser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 9:09 AM To: agi@v2.listbox.com Subject: Re: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research] THE KEY POINT I WAS TRYING TO GET ACROSS WAS ABOUT

Re: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-06 Thread Mark Waser
Ed, Get a grip. Try to write with complete words in complete sentences (unless discreted means a combination of excreted and discredited -- which works for me :-). I'm not coming back for a second swing. I'm still pursuing the first one. You just aren't oriented well enough to

RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-06 Thread Ed Porter
, December 06, 2007 1:24 PM To: agi@v2.listbox.com Subject: Re: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research] Ed, Get a grip. Try to write with complete words in complete sentences (unless discreted means a combination of excreted and discredited -- which works for me :-). I'm

RE: Distributed search (was RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research])

2007-12-06 Thread Matt Mahoney
--- Ed Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a lot of respect for Google, but I don't like monopolies, whether it is Microsoft or Google. I think it is vitally important that there be several viable search competators. I wish this wicki one luck. As I said, it sounds a lot like your

RE: Distributed search (was RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research])

2007-12-06 Thread Ed Porter
PM To: agi@v2.listbox.com Subject: RE: Distributed search (was RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]) --- Ed Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a lot of respect for Google, but I don't like monopolies, whether it is Microsoft or Google. I think it is vitally

RE: Distributed search (was RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research])

2007-12-06 Thread Matt Mahoney
--- Ed Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt, Does a PC become more vulnerable to viruses, worms, Trojan horses, root kits, and other web attacks if it becomes part of a P2P network? And if so why and how much. It does if the P2P software has vulnerabilities, just like any other server or

RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-06 Thread James Ratcliff
Richard, What is your specific complaint about the 'viability of the framework'? Ed, This line of data gathering is very interesting to me as well, though I found quickly that using all web sources quickly devolved into insanity. By using scanned text novels, I was able to extract lots of

RE: Distributed search (was RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research])

2007-12-06 Thread Ed Porter
.listbox.com Subject: RE: Distributed search (was RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]) --- Ed Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt, Does a PC become more vulnerable to viruses, worms, Trojan horses, root kits, and other web attacks if it becomes part of a P2P

Re: Distributed search (was RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research])

2007-12-06 Thread William Pearson
On 06/12/2007, Ed Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt, So if it is perceived as something that increases a machine's vulnerability, it seems to me that would be one more reason for people to avoid using it. Ed Porter Why are you having this discussion on an AGI list? Will Pearson -

Re: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-06 Thread Vladimir Nesov
On Dec 7, 2007 1:20 AM, Ed Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is something I have been telling people for years. That you should be able to extract a significant amount (but probably far from all) world knowledge by scanning large corpora of text. I would love to see how well it actually

RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-06 Thread Ed Porter
it actually works for a given size of corpora, and for a given level of algorithmic sophistication. Ed Porter -Original Message- From: James Ratcliff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 4:51 PM To: agi@v2.listbox.com Subject: RE: Hacker intelligence level

RE: Distributed search (was RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research])

2007-12-06 Thread Ed Porter
level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]) On 06/12/2007, Ed Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt, So if it is perceived as something that increases a machine's vulnerability, it seems to me that would be one more reason for people to avoid using it. Ed Porter Why are you having

Re: Distributed search (was RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research])

2007-12-06 Thread Matt Mahoney
--- William Pearson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 06/12/2007, Ed Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt, So if it is perceived as something that increases a machine's vulnerability, it seems to me that would be one more reason for people to avoid using it. Ed Porter Why are you having

RE: Distributed search (was RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research])

2007-12-06 Thread Ed Porter
, but it doesn't stop people from using them. -Original Message- From: Matt Mahoney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 4:06 PM To: agi@v2.listbox.com Subject: RE: Distributed search (was RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research

RE: Distributed search (was RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research])

2007-12-06 Thread Matt Mahoney
stop people from using them. -Original Message- From: Matt Mahoney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 4:06 PM To: agi@v2.listbox.com Subject: RE: Distributed search (was RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]) --- Ed Porter

Re: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-06 Thread Vladimir Nesov
Edward, It's certainly a trick question, since if you don't define semantics for this knowledge thing, it can turn out to be anything from simplest do-nothings to full-blown physically-infeasible superintelligences. So you assertion doesn't cut the viability of knowledge extraction for various

Re: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-06 Thread Vladimir Nesov
of the lots of relational information on a range of topics. Ed Porter -Original Message- From: Vladimir Nesov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 7:02 PM To: agi@v2.listbox.com Subject: Re: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research

RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-06 Thread Ed Porter
information on a range of topics. Ed Porter -Original Message- From: Vladimir Nesov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 7:02 PM To: agi@v2.listbox.com Subject: Re: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research] Edward, It's certainly a trick

RE: Distributed search (was RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research])

2007-12-06 Thread Matt Mahoney
it destroys us. -Original Message- From: Matt Mahoney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 6:17 PM To: agi@v2.listbox.com Subject: RE: Distributed search (was RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]) --- Ed Porter [EMAIL

Re: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-05 Thread Mark Waser
on this list this far from reality if one pursues them? - Original Message - From: Ed Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 10:52 PM Subject: RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research] The particular NL parser paper

RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-05 Thread Ed Porter
: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 3:16 AM To: agi@v2.listbox.com Subject: Re: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research] On 12/5/07, Matt Mahoney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Centralized search is limited to a few big players that can keep a copy of the Internet

Re: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-05 Thread Richard Loosemore
, 2007 10:27 AM To: agi@v2.listbox.com Subject: Re: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research] Interesting. Since I am interested in parsing, I read Collin's paper. It's a solid piece of work (though with the stated error

Re: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-05 Thread Mark Waser
ED PORTER= The 500K dimensions were mentioned several times in a lecture Collins gave at MIT about his parse. This was probably 5 years ago so I am not 100% sure the number was 500K, but I am about 90% sure that was the number used, and 100% sure the number was well over 100K. OK. I'll

RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-05 Thread Ed Porter
: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research] Ed Porter wrote: Mark, MARK WASER=== You claim that It is actually showing that you can do something roughly equivalent to growing neural gas (GNG) in a space with something approaching 500,000 dimensions, but you can do

RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-05 Thread Ed Porter
it is potentially capability of matching it against any of its dimensions. Ed Porter -Original Message- From: Mark Waser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 3:07 PM To: agi@v2.listbox.com Subject: Re: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research

Re: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-05 Thread Mark Waser
Dimensions is an awfully odd word for that since dimensions are normally assumed to be orthogonal. - Original Message - From: Ed Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 5:08 PM Subject: RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI

Re: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-05 Thread Mark Waser
HeavySarcasmWow. Is that what dot products are?/HeavySarcasm You're confusing all sorts of related concepts with a really garbled vocabulary. Let's do this with some concrete 10-D geometry . . . . Vector A runs from (0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0) to (1, 1, 0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0). Vector B runs from

RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-05 Thread Ed Porter
.listbox.com Subject: Re: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research] HeavySarcasmWow. Is that what dot products are?/HeavySarcasm You're confusing all sorts of related concepts with a really garbled vocabulary. Let's do this with some concrete 10-D geometry . . . . Vector A runs

RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-05 Thread Ed Porter
They need not be. -Original Message- From: Mark Waser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 6:04 PM To: agi@v2.listbox.com Subject: Re: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research] Dimensions is an awfully odd word for that since dimensions

Re: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-05 Thread David Hart
On 12/5/07, Matt Mahoney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Centralized search is limited to a few big players that can keep a copy of the Internet on their servers. Google is certainly useful, but imagine if it searched a space 1000 times larger and if posts were instantly added to its

RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-05 Thread John G. Rose
From: Matt Mahoney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] My design would use most of the Internet (10^9 P2P nodes). Messages would be natural language text strings, making no distinction between documents, queries, and responses. Each message would have a header indicating the ID and time stamp of

Distributed search (was RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research])

2007-12-05 Thread Matt Mahoney
--- Ed Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt, Perhaps your are right. But one problem is that big Google-like compuplexes in the next five to ten years will be powerful enough to do AGI and they will be much more efficient for AGI search because the physical closeness of their machines

Distrubuted message pool (was RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research])

2007-12-05 Thread Matt Mahoney
--- John G. Rose [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Matt Mahoney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] My design would use most of the Internet (10^9 P2P nodes). Messages would be natural language text strings, making no distinction between documents, queries, and responses. Each message would have a

RE: Distributed search (was RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research])

2007-12-05 Thread Ed Porter
- From: Matt Mahoney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 9:24 PM To: agi@v2.listbox.com Subject: Distributed search (was RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]) --- Ed Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt, Perhaps your are right. But one

RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-04 Thread Ed Porter
Bryan, The name grub sounds familiar. That is probably it. Ed -Original Message- From: Bryan Bishop [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 10:47 PM To: agi@v2.listbox.com Subject: Re: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research] On Thursday 29

RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-04 Thread Ed Porter
listening to or conversing with. ED PORTER -Original Message- From: Richard Loosemore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 10:47 PM To: agi@v2.listbox.com Subject: Re: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research] Ed Porter wrote: I'm sorry

RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-04 Thread Ed Porter
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 1:42 AM To: agi@v2.listbox.com Subject: RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research] Ed, Well it'd be nice having a supercomputer but P2P is a poor man's supercomputer and beggars can't be choosy. Honestly the type

Re: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-04 Thread Richard Loosemore
Ed Porter wrote: RICHARD LOOSEMORE= You have no idea of the context in which I made that sweeping dismissal. If you have enough experience of research in this area you will know that it is filled with bandwagons, hype and publicity-seeking. Trivial models are presented as if they are

RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-04 Thread Ed Porter
. -Original Message- From: Richard Loosemore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 9:58 AM To: agi@v2.listbox.com Subject: Re: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research] Ed Porter wrote: RICHARD LOOSEMORE= You have no idea of the context

RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-04 Thread John G. Rose
From: Ed Porter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] John, I am sure there is interesting stuff that can be done. It would be interesting just to see what sort of an agi could be made on a PC. Yes it would be interesting to see what could be done on a small cluster of modern server grade computers. I

RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-04 Thread Ed Porter
index links to more efficiency allocate index activations. How does your intelligent indexing work? Ed Porter -Original Message- From: John G. Rose [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 2:17 PM To: agi@v2.listbox.com Subject: RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re

RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-04 Thread John G. Rose
happens there :) So that's it without getting too into details. Very primitive still ... John -Original Message- From: John G. Rose [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 2:17 PM To: agi@v2.listbox.com Subject: RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding

RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-04 Thread Matt Mahoney
--- Ed Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt, IN my Mon 12/3/2007 8:17 PM post to John Rose from which your are probably quoting below I discussed the bandwidth issues. I am assuming nodes directly talk to each other, which is probably overly optimistic, but still are limited by the fact

RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-04 Thread Ed Porter
the man. Ed Porter -Original Message- From: Matt Mahoney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 7:42 PM To: agi@v2.listbox.com Subject: RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research] --- Ed Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt, IN my Mon 12/3

Re: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-04 Thread Richard Loosemore
Ed Porter wrote: Richard, It is not clear how valuable your 25 years of hard won learning is if it causes you to dismiss valuable scientific work that seems to have eclipsed the importance of anything I or you have published as trivial exercises in public relations without giving any reason

Re: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-04 Thread Benjamin Goertzel
Thus: building a NL parser, no matter how good it is, is of no use whatsoever unless it can be shown to emerge from (or at least fit with) a learning mechanism that allows the system itself to generate its own understanding (or, at least, acquisition) of grammar IN THE CONTEXT OF A MECHANISM

RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-04 Thread Matt Mahoney
--- Ed Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MATT MAHONEY= My design would use most of the Internet (10^9 P2P nodes). ED PORTER= That's ambitious. Easier said than done unless you have a Google, Microsoft, or mass popular movement backing you. It would take some free software that people

Re: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-04 Thread Richard Loosemore
Benjamin Goertzel wrote: Thus: building a NL parser, no matter how good it is, is of no use whatsoever unless it can be shown to emerge from (or at least fit with) a learning mechanism that allows the system itself to generate its own understanding (or, at least, acquisition) of grammar IN THE

RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-04 Thread Ed Porter
well in a sparsely connected world. That is important, for those with the vision to understand. Ed Porter -Original Message- From: Benjamin Goertzel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 8:59 PM To: agi@v2.listbox.com Subject: Re: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re

RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-04 Thread Ed Porter
the massive interconnected needed for powerful AGI much more efficiently. Ed Porter -Original Message- From: Matt Mahoney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 9:18 PM To: agi@v2.listbox.com Subject: RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research

Re: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-04 Thread Benjamin Goertzel
OK, understood... On Dec 4, 2007 9:32 PM, Richard Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Benjamin Goertzel wrote: Thus: building a NL parser, no matter how good it is, is of no use whatsoever unless it can be shown to emerge from (or at least fit with) a learning mechanism that allows the

Re: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-03 Thread Bryan Bishop
On Sunday 02 December 2007, John G. Rose wrote: Building up parse trees and word sense models, let's say that would be a first step. And then say after a while this was accomplished and running on some peers. What would the next theoretical step be? I am not sure what the next step would be.

Re: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-03 Thread Richard Loosemore
Ed Porter wrote: Once you build up good models for parsing and word sense, then you read large amounts of text and start building up model of the realities described and generalizations from them. Assuming this is a continuation of the discussion of an AGI-at-home P2P system, you are going to

RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-03 Thread Ed Porter
could be a valuable initial source of one component of world knowledge for use by AGI. Ed Porter -Original Message- From: Bryan Bishop [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 7:33 AM To: agi@v2.listbox.com Subject: Re: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI

RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-03 Thread John G. Rose
From: Richard Loosemore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] The reason it reminds me of this episode is that you are calmly talking here about the high dimensional problem of seeking to understand the meaning of text, which often involve multiple levels of implication, which would normally be

Re: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-03 Thread Matt Mahoney
--- Richard Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Menawhile, unfortunately, solving all those other issues like making parsers and trying to do word-sense disambiguation would not help one whit to get the real theoretical task done. I agree. AI has a long history of doing the easy part of the

Re: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-03 Thread Mike Tintner
Matt:: The whole point of using massive parallel computation is to do the hard part of the problem. I get it : you and most other AI-ers are equating hard with very, very complex, right? But you don't seriously think that the human mind successfully deals with language by massive parallel

RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-03 Thread John G. Rose
From: Bryan Bishop [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I am not sure what the next step would be. The first step might be enough for the moment. When you have the network functioning at all, expose an API so that other programmers can come in and try to utilize sentence analysis (and other functions)

RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-03 Thread John G. Rose
From: Ed Porter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Once you build up good models for parsing and word sense, then you read large amounts of text and start building up model of the realities described and generalizations from them. Assuming this is a continuation of the discussion of an AGI-at-home

Re: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-03 Thread Richard Loosemore
John G. Rose wrote: From: Richard Loosemore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [snip] I am not being negative, I am just relaying the standard understanding of priorities in the AGI field as a whole. Send complaints addressed to AGI Community, not to me, please. You are being negative! And since

Re: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-03 Thread Richard Loosemore
Mike Tintner wrote: Matt:: The whole point of using massive parallel computation is to do the hard part of the problem. I get it : you and most other AI-ers are equating hard with very, very complex, right? But you don't seriously think that the human mind successfully deals with language

Re: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-03 Thread Richard Loosemore
. Richard Loosemore -Original Message- From: Richard Loosemore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 10:07 AM To: agi@v2.listbox.com Subject: Re: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research] Ed Porter wrote: Once you build up good models

RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-03 Thread John G. Rose
From: Richard Loosemore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] It is easy for a research field to agree that certain problems are really serious and unsolved. A hundred years ago, the results of the Michelson-Morley experiments were a big unsolved problem, and pretty serious for the foundations of

RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-03 Thread Ed Porter
in a complex context without massive computation? -Original Message- From: Mike Tintner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 12:12 PM To: agi@v2.listbox.com Subject: Re: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research] Matt:: The whole point of using massive

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2007-12-03 Thread Mike Dougherty
On Dec 3, 2007 12:12 PM, Mike Tintner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I get it : you and most other AI-ers are equating hard with very, very complex, right? But you don't seriously think that the human mind successfully deals with language by massive parallel computation, do you? Very very complex

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2007-12-03 Thread Mike Tintner
RL: One thing that can be easily measured is the activation of lexical items related in various ways to a presented word (i.e. show the subject the word Doctor and test to see if the word Nurse gets activated). It turns out that within an extremely short time of the forst word being seen, a very

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2007-12-03 Thread Matt Mahoney
--- Mike Tintner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the one hand, we can perhaps agree that one of the brain's glories is that it can very rapidly draw analogies - that I can quickly produce a string of associations like, say, snake, rope, chain, spaghetti strand, - and you may quickly be able to

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2007-12-03 Thread Ed Porter
he generously shares credit for Confabulation) -- and believe! Ed Porter -Original Message- From: Richard Loosemore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 12:49 PM To: agi@v2.listbox.com Subject: Re: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research] Ed

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2007-12-03 Thread Mike Tintner
MIKE TINTNER Isn't it obvious that the brain is able to understand the wealth of language by relatively few computations - quite intricate, hierarchical, multi-levelled processing, ED PORTER How do you find the right set of relatively few computations and/or models that are appropriate in a

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2007-12-03 Thread Richard Loosemore
Ed Porter wrote: RICHARD LOOSEMORE I cannot even begin to do justice, here, to the issues involved in solving the high dimensional problem of seeking to understand the meaning of text, which often involve multiple levels of implication, which would normally be accomplished by some sort of search

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2007-12-03 Thread Richard Loosemore
Ed Porter wrote: RICHARD LOOSEMORE I cannot even begin to do justice, here, to the issues involved in solving the high dimensional problem of seeking to understand the meaning of text, which often involve multiple levels of implication, which would normally be accomplished by some sort of search

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2007-12-03 Thread Mike Tintner
Matt: Semantic models learn associations by proximity in the training text. The degree to which you associate snake and rope depends on how often these words appear near each other Correct me - but it's the old, old problem here, isn't it? Those semantic models/programs won't be able to form

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2007-12-03 Thread Matt Mahoney
--- Ed Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We do not know the number and width of the spreading activation that is necessary for human level reasoning over world knowledge. Thus, we really don't know how much interconnect is needed and thus how large of a P2P net would be needed for impressive

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2007-12-03 Thread Matt Mahoney
--- Mike Tintner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt: Semantic models learn associations by proximity in the training text. The degree to which you associate snake and rope depends on how often these words appear near each other Correct me - but it's the old, old problem here, isn't it? Those

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2007-12-03 Thread Ed Porter
Mike -Original Message- From: Mike Tintner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 8:25 PM To: agi@v2.listbox.com Subject: Re: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research] MIKE TINTNER Isn't it obvious that the brain is able to understand the wealth

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2007-12-03 Thread Ed Porter
RICHARD LOOSEMORE= I'm sorry, but this is not addressing the actual issues involved. You are implicitly assuming a certain framework for solving the problem of representing knowledge ... and then all your discussion is about whether or not it is feasible to implement that framework (to

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2007-12-03 Thread Ed Porter
Richard Loosemore= None of the above is relevant. The issue is not whether toy problems set within the current paradigm can be done with this or that search algorithm, it is whether the current paradigm can be made to converge at all for non-toy problems. Ed Porter= Richard, I

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2007-12-03 Thread Ed Porter
that. Ed Porter -Original Message- From: Matt Mahoney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 8:51 PM To: agi@v2.listbox.com Subject: RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research] --- Ed Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We do not know the number and width

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2007-12-03 Thread Ed Porter
03, 2007 8:51 PM To: agi@v2.listbox.com Subject: RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research] --- Ed Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We do not know the number and width of the spreading activation that is necessary for human level reasoning over world knowledge. Thus, we

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2007-12-03 Thread Bryan Bishop
On Thursday 29 November 2007, Ed Porter wrote: Somebody (I think it was David Hart) told me there is a shareware distributed web crawler already available, but I don't know the details, such as how good or fast it is. http://grub.org/ Previous owner went by the name of 'kordless'. I found him

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2007-12-03 Thread Richard Loosemore
Ed Porter wrote: Richard Loosemore= None of the above is relevant. The issue is not whether toy problems set within the current paradigm can be done with this or that search algorithm, it is whether the current paradigm can be made to converge at all for non-toy problems. Ed

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2007-12-03 Thread Richard Loosemore
Ed Porter wrote: RICHARD LOOSEMORE= I'm sorry, but this is not addressing the actual issues involved. You are implicitly assuming a certain framework for solving the problem of representing knowledge ... and then all your discussion is about whether or not it is feasible to implement

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2007-12-03 Thread Mike Tintner
RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]ED Yes, but there are a lot of types of thinking that cannot be done by shape alone, and shape is actually much more complicated than shape. There is shape, and shape distorted by perspective, and shape changed by bending

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2007-12-03 Thread John G. Rose
_ From: Ed Porter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 6:17 PM To: agi@v2.listbox.com Subject: RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research

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2007-12-02 Thread John G. Rose
: Saturday, December 01, 2007 6:41 PM To: agi@v2.listbox.com Subject: RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research] John, I tested Exeter, NH to LA at 5371kbs download, and 362Kbs upload. Strangelly my scores were slightly slower to NYC. Just throwing out ideas

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2007-12-01 Thread Ed Porter
PM To: agi@v2.listbox.com Subject: RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research] Ed, That is probably a good rough estimate. There are more headers for the more frequently transmitted smaller messages but a 16 byte header may be a bit large. Here is a speedtest link - http

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2007-11-30 Thread John G. Rose
increases. John -Original Message- From: Ed Porter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 10:10 AM To: agi@v2.listbox.com Subject: RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research] John, Thanks. Can P2P transmission match the same roughly 27

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2007-11-30 Thread John G. Rose
- From: Ed Porter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 12:06 PM To: agi@v2.listbox.com Subject: RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research] John, Thanks. I guess that means and AGI-at-home system could be both up- loading and receiving

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2007-11-30 Thread Mike Tintner
RL:However, I have previously written a good deal about the design of different types of motivation system, and my understanding of the likely situation is that by the time we had gotten the AGI working, its motivations would have been arranged in such a way that it would *want* to be extremely

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