Re: [agi] Tommy

2007-05-14 Thread J Storrs Hall, PhD
On Sunday 13 May 2007 08:14:43 am Kingma, D.P. wrote: John, as I wrote earlier, I'm very interested in learning more about your particular approach to: - Concept and pattern representation. (i.e. types of concept, patterns, relations?) As I mentioned in another note, (about the tennis ball),

Re: [agi] Tommy

2007-05-14 Thread J Storrs Hall, PhD
On Saturday 12 May 2007 10:24:03 pm Lukasz Stafiniak wrote: Do you have some interesting links about imitation? I've found these, not all of them interesting, I'm just showing what I have: Thanks -- some of those look interesting. I don't have any good links, but I'd reccomend Hurley Chater,

Re: [agi] Tommy

2007-05-13 Thread Kingma, D.P.
John, as I wrote earlier, I'm very interested in learning more about your particular approach to: - Concept and pattern representation. (i.e. types of concept, patterns, relations?) - Concept creation. (searching for statistically signifcant spatiotemporal correlations, genetic programming,

Re: [agi] Tommy

2007-05-12 Thread Pei Wang
Mike, I just wonder that whenever you find there's one thing so screamingly obvious that you guys don't seem to be taking it into account, have it ever occurred to you that there may be a valid reason? For the current issue, whether there is still human in the loop has little to do with the

Re: [agi] Tommy

2007-05-12 Thread J Storrs Hall, PhD
On Friday 11 May 2007 08:55:12 pm Mike Tintner wrote: ...All these machines you are talking about are basically inert lumps of metal and don't exist without human beings to switch them on, feed them interpret them. Same is true of a baby, except for the part where you can turn it off and

Re: [agi] Tommy

2007-05-12 Thread J Storrs Hall, PhD
On Friday 11 May 2007 09:15:56 pm Mike Tintner wrote: I'm saying the last 400 years have been framed by Descartes' and science's mind VERSUS body dichotomy. That in turn has been expressed in a whole variety of subsidiary dichotomoies and cultural battles: ... mind vs body ... reason vs

Re: [agi] Tommy

2007-05-12 Thread J Storrs Hall, PhD
On Friday 11 May 2007 08:26:03 pm Pei Wang wrote: *. Meaning come from experience, and is grounded in experience. I agree with this in practice but I don't think it's necessarily, definitionally true. In practice, experience is the only good way we know of to build the models that provide us

Re: [agi] Tommy

2007-05-12 Thread Mike Tintner
: [agi] Tommy Mike, I just wonder that whenever you find there's one thing so screamingly obvious that you guys don't seem to be taking it into account, have it ever occurred to you that there may be a valid reason? For the current issue, whether there is still human in the loop has little

Re: [agi] Tommy

2007-05-12 Thread Mike Tintner
/robot that is only fractionally as exploratory. - Original Message - From: J Storrs Hall, PhD [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2007 12:41 PM Subject: Re: [agi] Tommy On Friday 11 May 2007 08:55:12 pm Mike Tintner wrote: ...All these machines you

Re: [agi] Tommy

2007-05-12 Thread Pei Wang
On 5/12/07, J Storrs Hall, PhD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 11 May 2007 08:26:03 pm Pei Wang wrote: *. Meaning come from experience, and is grounded in experience. I agree with this in practice but I don't think it's necessarily, definitionally true. In practice, experience is the only

Re: [agi] Tommy

2007-05-12 Thread Mike Tintner
Josh:My major hobby-horse in this area is that a concept has to be an active machine, capable of recognition, generation, inference, and prediction. This sounds very like Jeff Hawkins, (just reading On Intelligence now). Do you see your position as generally accepted, or at the forefront of

RE: [agi] Tommy

2007-05-12 Thread Derek Zahn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Help from anyone on this list with experience with the GNU toolchain on ARM-based microcontrollers will be gratefully accepted :-) I have a lot of such experience and would be happy to help out with whatever you need. Post more details here if you think they

Re: [agi] Tommy

2007-05-12 Thread J Storrs Hall, PhD
On Saturday 12 May 2007 09:18:16 am Mike Tintner wrote: Josh:My major hobby-horse in this area is that a concept has to be an active machine, capable of recognition, generation, inference, and prediction. This sounds very like Jeff Hawkins, (just reading On Intelligence now). Do you see

Re: [agi] Tommy

2007-05-12 Thread Lukasz Stafiniak
On 5/13/07, J Storrs Hall, PhD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 12 May 2007 09:00:46 am Pei Wang wrote: ...My understanding is that ..., your world model is, in essence, a bunch of if I do this, I'll observe that, which is a summary of experience, or interactions between the system and

Re: [agi] Tommy

2007-05-12 Thread J Storrs Hall, PhD
Thanks! I'll be in touch. Josh On Saturday 12 May 2007 10:08:26 am Derek Zahn wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Help from anyone on this list with experience with the GNU toolchain on ARM-based microcontrollers will be gratefully accepted :-) I have a lot of such experience and would

RE: [agi] Tommy

2007-05-11 Thread Derek Zahn
J. Storrs Hall writes: Tommy, the scientific experiment and engineering project, is almost all about concept formation. Great project! While I'm not quite sure about meaning in the concept of price-theoretical market equilibria thing, I really like your idea and it's similar in broad

Re: [agi] Tommy

2007-05-11 Thread Bob Mottram
In order to differentiate this from the rest of the robotics crowd you need to avoid building a specialised pinball playing robot. If the machine can learn and form concepts based upon its experiences it should be able to do so with any kind of game, provided that suitable actuators are

RE: [agi] Tommy

2007-05-11 Thread Derek Zahn
Bob Mottram writes: In order to differentiate this from the rest of the robotics crowd you need to avoid building a specialised pinball playing robot. I can't speak for JoSH, but I got the impression that playing pinball or anything similar was not the object, the object was to provide real

Re: [agi] Tommy

2007-05-11 Thread Mike Tintner
Josh: Thus Tommy. My robotics project discards a major component of robotics that is apparently dear to the embodiment crowd: Tommy is stationary and not autonomous As Daniel Wolpert will tell you, the sea squirt devours its brain as soon as it stops moving. In the final and the first analysis,

Re: [agi] Tommy

2007-05-11 Thread Shane Legg
Josh, Interesting work, and I like the nature of your approach. We have essentially a kind of a pin ball machine at IDSIA and some of the guys were going to work on watching this and trying to learn simple concepts from the observations. I don't work on it so I'm not sure what the current state

Re: [agi] Tommy

2007-05-11 Thread J Storrs Hall, PhD
On Friday 11 May 2007 02:01:09 pm Mike Tintner wrote: ... As Daniel Wolpert will tell you, the sea squirt devours its brain as soon as it stops moving. As Dan Dennet has pointed out, this resembles what happens when one gets tenure... In the final and the first analysis, the brain is a

Re: [agi] Tommy

2007-05-11 Thread Vladimir Nesov
Friday, May 11, 2007, J Storrs Hall, PhD wrote: JSHP 2. The hard part is learning: the AI has to build its own world JSHP model. And for this it requires complex enough world to model. Information about the world can be given by static description (which also includes action-reaction

Re: [agi] Tommy

2007-05-11 Thread J Storrs Hall, PhD
Right. The key issue is autogeny in the mental architecture. Learning will be unsupervised to start, with internal feedback from how well the system is expecting what it sees next. Then we move into a mode where imitation is the key, with the system trying to do what a person just did (e.g.

Re: [agi] Tommy

2007-05-11 Thread Kingma, D.P.
Yes, thank you, a meaningful and very interesting project. I discussed this kind of system with a friend of mine half an hour ago. On 5/11/07, J Storrs Hall, PhD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. The hard part is learning: the AI has to build its own world model. My instinct and experience

Re: [agi] Tommy

2007-05-11 Thread William Pearson
On 11/05/07, J Storrs Hall, PhD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tommy, the scientific experiment and engineering project, is almost all about concept formation. He gets a voluminous input stream but is required to parse it into coherent concepts (e.g. objects, positions, velocities, etc). None of

Re: [agi] Tommy

2007-05-11 Thread Pei Wang
Josh, This is an interesting idea that deserves detailed discussion. Since the 90s there has been a strand in AI research that claims that robotics is necessary to the enterprise, based on the notion that having a body is necessary to intelligence. Symbols, it is said, must be grounded in

Re: [agi] Tommy

2007-05-11 Thread Mike Tintner
Josh, Since the 90s there has been a strand in AI research that claims that robotics is necessary to the enterprise, based on the notion that having a body is necessary to intelligence. Symbols, it is said, must be grounded in physical experience to have meaning. Without such grounding AI

Re: [agi] Tommy

2007-05-11 Thread Mike Tintner
Josh, I'm not quite sure what your angle is here, but I don't seem to be communicating, (please correct me). If BTW you and/or others aren't interested in this whole cultural history area, please ignore. I'm saying the last 400 years have been framed by Descartes' and science's mind VERSUS

Re: [agi] Tommy

2007-05-11 Thread Mike Tintner
Josh, [ignore previous truncated version] I'm not quite sure what your angle is here, but I don't seem to be communicating, (please correct me). If BTW you and/or others aren't interested in this whole cultural history area, please ignore. I'm saying the last 400 years have been framed by

Re: [agi] Tommy

2007-05-11 Thread Benjamin Goertzel
Computational AI/AGI vsrobotics (Symbolic AIvs (situated, embodied evolutionary robotics) What has been happening over the last decade or so, is that all these dichotomies have been dissolving. It's arguably a