Larry Lefkowitz, Stephen Reed, et al,
First, Thanks Steve for your pointer to Larry Lefkowitz, and thanks Larry
for so much time and effort in trying to relate our two approaches..
After discussions with Larry Lefkowitz of Cycorp, I have had a bit of an
epiphany regarding machine knowledge that
Steve, the difference between Cyc and Dr. Eliza is that Cyc has much more
knowledge. Cyc has millions of rules. The OpenCyc download is hundreds of MB
compressed. Several months ago you posted the database file for Dr. Eliza. I
recall it was a few hundred rules and I think under 1 MB. Both of
Matt,
It appears that either you completely missed the point in my earlier post,
that
Knowledge + Inverse Knowledge ~= Understanding (hopefully)
There are few things in the world that are known SO well that from direct
knowledge thereof that you can directly infer all potential modes of
No, I don't believe that Dr. Eliza knows nothing about normal health, or that
Cyc knows nothing about illness.
-- Matt Mahoney, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Steve Richfield [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: agi@v2.listbox.com
Sent: Tuesday, December 9, 2008 3:21:18 PM
And 'deep blue' knows nothing about chess.
These machines are manipulating abstract symbols at the speed of light.
The appearance of 'knowledge' of the natural world in the sense that
humans know things, must be absent and merely projected by us as
observers, because we are really
As an application domain for Dr. Eliza, medicine has the obvious
advantage of usefulness, but the disadvantage that it's hard to assess
performance -- specific data is largely unavailable for privacy
reasons, and most of us lack the expertise to properly assess it even
if it were available.
Is
Hi all,
This will be announced more widely a bit later, but for y'all I'll
make a preliminary announcement...
We're going to run a 3 week long AGI Summer School in Xiamen, China in
summer 2009
Details are at
http://goertzel.org/AGI_Summer_School_2009.htm
(Unfortunately it does cost money to
Russell,
On 12/9/08, Russell Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As an application domain for Dr. Eliza, medicine has the obvious
advantage of usefulness, but the disadvantage that it's hard to assess
performance -- specific data is largely unavailable for privacy
reasons, and most of us lack
Matt,
On 12/9/08, Matt Mahoney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No, I don't believe that Dr. Eliza knows nothing about normal health, or
that Cyc knows nothing about illness.
Of course you are right. In Dr. Eliza's case, it is quick to ask questions
to establish subsystem normalcy to eliminate
