Re: [agi] Seeking CYC critiques

2008-12-05 Thread Steve Richfield
Matt, On 12/4/08, Matt Mahoney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- On Wed, 12/3/08, Steve Richfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I appears obvious to me that the first person who proposes the following things together as a workable standard, will own the future 'web. This because the world will enter

Re: [agi] Lamarck Lives!(?)

2008-12-05 Thread Matt Mahoney
--- On Wed, 12/3/08, Ben Goertzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, LTP is definitely real ... and I'm quite sure the scheme you describe is *not* how learning works in the brain ;-) ,,, but I'm equally sure that the full story has not yet been uncovered... I have attached a program that

Re: [agi] Seeking CYC critiques

2008-12-05 Thread Matt Mahoney
--- On Fri, 12/5/08, Steve Richfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If only people included two absolutely critical pieces of metadata in their postings, then you and Google would be absolutely right. Unfortunately, they do NOT ever include this metadata, and it simply cannot be gleaned from the

Re: [agi] Seeking CYC critiques

2008-12-05 Thread Steve Richfield
Matt, If your program can't handle natural language with all its ambiguities, then it isn't AGI. Internet AGIs are the technology of the future, and always will be. There will NEVER EVER in a million years be a thinking Internet silicon intelligence that will be able to solve substantial