Re: [agi] CopyCat

2008-12-17 Thread Richard Loosemore
Vladimir Nesov wrote: On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 6:03 PM, Ben Goertzel b...@goertzel.org wrote: I happened to use CopyCat in a university AI class I taught years ago, so I got some experience with it It was **great** as a teaching tool, but I wouldn't say it shows anything about what can or can't

Re: [agi] CopyCat

2008-12-17 Thread Ben Goertzel
I happened to use CopyCat in a university AI class I taught years ago, so I got some experience with it It was **great** as a teaching tool, but I wouldn't say it shows anything about what can or can't work for AGI, really... ben On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 10:02 AM, Ben Goertzel b...@goertzel.org

Re: [agi] CopyCat

2008-12-17 Thread Vladimir Nesov
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 6:03 PM, Ben Goertzel b...@goertzel.org wrote: I happened to use CopyCat in a university AI class I taught years ago, so I got some experience with it It was **great** as a teaching tool, but I wouldn't say it shows anything about what can or can't work for AGI,

Re: [agi] CopyCat

2008-12-17 Thread Ben Goertzel
Do you mean that examples that Hofstadter/Mitchell used in their papers for CopyCat did not in fact work on their codebase? I remember downloading second copycat implementations (in Java IIRC), it seemed to be working. Besides, they don't claim anything grandiose for this model, and it seems