Re: Cognitive Science 'unusable' for AGI [WAS Re: [agi] Pearls Before Swine...]

2008-06-12 Thread Steve Richfield
Richard, On 6/11/08, Richard Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using cognitive science as a basis for AGI development, If my fear of paradigm shifting proves to be unfounded, then you may well be right. However, I would be surprised if there weren't a LOT of paradigm shifting going on.

Cognitive Science 'unusable' for AGI [WAS Re: [agi] Pearls Before Swine...]

2008-06-11 Thread Richard Loosemore
Steve Richfield wrote: Richard, On 6/8/08, *Richard Loosemore* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You also failed to address my own previous response to you: I basically said that you make remarks as if the whole of cognitive science does not exist. Quite the

Re: [agi] Pearls Before Swine...

2008-06-10 Thread Jim Bromer
Ben wrote: I think that AGI, right now, could also be analyzed as having four main approaches 1-- logic-based ... including a host of different logic formalisms 2-- neural net/ brain simulation based ... including some biologically quasi-realistic systems and some systems that are more formal

Re: [agi] Pearls Before Swine...

2008-06-10 Thread Steve Richfield
Jim, Ben, et al, On 6/10/08, Jim Bromer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ben wrote: I think that AGI, right now, The thing that stumbled me when I first got here, is understanding just what is meant here by AGI. It is NOT the process that goes on behind our eyeballs, as that is clearly an emergent

Re: [agi] Pearls Before Swine...

2008-06-10 Thread Steve Richfield
Bob, On 6/8/08, Bob Mottram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/6/8 Ben Goertzel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Those of us w/ experience in the field have heard the objections you and Tintner are making hundreds or thousands of times before. We have already processed the arguments you're making and found

Re: [agi] Pearls Before Swine...

2008-06-10 Thread Steve Richfield
Matthias, On 6/8/08, Dr. Matthias Heger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In short, most people on this list appear to be interested only in HOW to straight-line program an AGI (with the implicit assumption that we operate anything at all like we appear to operate), but not in WHAT to program,

Re: [agi] Pearls Before Swine...

2008-06-10 Thread Steve Richfield
Ben, On 6/8/08, Ben Goertzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome - Dr Samuel Johnson ... to whose satisfaction? Here on this forum, there are only two groups of judges: 1. The people who are actually writing the code,

Re: [agi] Pearls Before Swine...

2008-06-10 Thread Steve Richfield
Richard, On 6/8/08, Richard Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You also failed to address my own previous response to you: I basically said that you make remarks as if the whole of cognitive science does not exist. Quite the contrary. My point is that not only does cognitive science fail

Re: [agi] Pearls Before Swine...

2008-06-10 Thread Jim Bromer
- Original Message From: Steve Richfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3-- integrative ... which itself is a very broad category with a lot of heterogeneity ... including e.g. systems composed of wholly distinct black boxes versus systems that have intricate real-time feedbacks between different

Re: [agi] Pearls Before Swine...

2008-06-08 Thread Stephen Reed
Hi Steve, I'm thinking about the Texai bootstrap dialog system, and in particular about adding grammar rules and vocabulary for the utterance Compile a class. Cheers. -Steve Stephen L. Reed Artificial Intelligence Researcher http://texai.org/blog http://texai.org 3008 Oak Crest Ave. Austin,

Re: [agi] Pearls Before Swine...

2008-06-08 Thread Mark Waser
: [agi] Pearls Before Swine... Hi Steve, I'm thinking about the Texai bootstrap dialog system, and in particular about adding grammar rules and vocabulary for the utterance Compile a class. Cheers. -Steve Stephen L. Reed Artificial Intelligence Researcher http://texai.org/blog

Re: [agi] Pearls Before Swine...

2008-06-08 Thread Ben Goertzel
Steve, Those of us w/ experience in the field have heard the objections you and Tintner are making hundreds or thousands of times before. We have already processed the arguments you're making and found them wanting. And we have already gotten tired of arguing those same points, back in our

Re: [agi] Pearls Before Swine...

2008-06-08 Thread Mike Tintner
Steve, A quick response for now. I was going to reply to an earlier post of yours, in which you made the most important point for me: The difficulties in proceeding in both neuroscience and AI/AGI is NOT a lack of technology or clever people to apply it, but is rather a lack of understanding

Re: [agi] Pearls Before Swine...

2008-06-08 Thread Ben Goertzel
The truth is, one of the big problems in the field is that nearly everyone working on a concrete AI system has **their own** particular idea of how to do it, and wants to proceed independently rather than compromising with others on various design points. It's hardly a herd mentality -- the

Re: [agi] Pearls Before Swine...

2008-06-08 Thread Bob Mottram
2008/6/8 Ben Goertzel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Those of us w/ experience in the field have heard the objections you and Tintner are making hundreds or thousands of times before. We have already processed the arguments you're making and found them wanting. I entirely agree with this response. To

Re: [agi] Pearls Before Swine...

2008-06-08 Thread A. T. Murray
The abnormalis sapiens Herr Doktor Steve Richfield wrote: Hey you guys with some gray hair and/or bald spots, WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU THINKING? prin Goertzel genesthai, ego eimi http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/mentifex_faq.html My hair is graying so much and such a Glatze is beginning, that I

RE: [agi] Pearls Before Swine...

2008-06-08 Thread Gary Miller
Steve Richfield asked: Hey you guys with some gray hair and/or bald spots, WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU THINKING? We're thinking Don't feed the Trolls! _ agi | Archives http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ | Modify

Re: [agi] Pearls Before Swine...

2008-06-08 Thread Steve Richfield
Ben and Mike, WOW, two WONDERFUL in-your-face postings that CLEARLY delimit a central AGI issue. Since my original posting ended with a question and Ben took a shot at the question, I would like to know a little more... On 6/8/08, Ben Goertzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Those of us w/ experience

RE: [agi] Pearls Before Swine...

2008-06-08 Thread Derek Zahn
Gary Miller writes: We're thinking Don't feed the Trolls! Yeah, typical trollish behavior -- upon failing to stir the pot with one approcah, start adding blanket insults. I put Steve Richfield in my killfile a week ago or so, but I went back to the archive to read the message in question.

RE: [agi] Pearls Before Swine...

2008-06-08 Thread John G. Rose
From: A. T. Murray [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] The abnormalis sapiens Herr Doktor Steve Richfield wrote: Hey you guys with some gray hair and/or bald spots, WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU THINKING? prin Goertzel genesthai, ego eimi http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/mentifex_faq.html My hair

Re: [agi] Pearls Before Swine...

2008-06-08 Thread Ben Goertzel
While the details vary widely, Mike and I were addressing the very concept of writing code to perform functions (e.g. thinking) that apparently develop on their own as emergent properties, and in the process foreclosing on many opportunities, e.g. developing in variant ways to address problems

Re: [agi] Pearls Before Swine...

2008-06-08 Thread Mike Tintner
Ben: No one knows which brain functions rely on emergence to which extents ... we're still puzzling this out even in relatively well-understood brain regions like visual cortex. ... But, the neural structures that carry out object-recognition may well emerge as a result of complex nonlinear

Re: [agi] Pearls Before Swine...

2008-06-08 Thread Jim Bromer
- Original Message From: Mike Tintner [EMAIL PROTECTED] My approach is: first you look at the problem of crossing domains in its own terms - work out an ideal way to solve it - which will probably be close to the way the mind does solve it - then think about how to implement your

Re: [agi] Pearls Before Swine...

2008-06-08 Thread Jim Bromer
- Original Message From: Mike Tintner [EMAIL PROTECTED] My approach is: first you look at the problem of crossing domains in its own terms - work out an ideal way to solve it - which will probably be close to the way the mind does solve it - then think about how to implement your

Re: [agi] Pearls Before Swine...

2008-06-08 Thread Ben Goertzel
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome - Dr Samuel Johnson -- Ben G On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 7:41 AM, Jim Bromer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message From: Mike Tintner [EMAIL PROTECTED] My approach is: first you look at the problem

Re: [agi] Pearls Before Swine...

2008-06-08 Thread Richard Loosemore
Steve Richfield wrote: Mike Tintner, et al, After failing to get ANY response to what I thought was an important point (*Paradigm Shifting regarding Consciousness) *I went back through my AGI inbox to see what other postings by others weren't getting any responses. Mike Tintner was way

RE: [agi] Pearls Before Swine...

2008-06-08 Thread A. T. Murray
John G. Rose wrote: [...] Hey you guys with some gray hair and/or bald spots, WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU THINKING? prin Goertzel genesthai, ego eimi Before Goertzel came to be, I am. (a Biblical allusion in Greek :-) http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/mentifex_faq.html The above link is an

RE: [agi] Pearls Before Swine...

2008-06-08 Thread John G. Rose
John G. Rose wrote: Does this mean that now maybe you can afford to integrate some AJAX into that JavaScript AI mind of yours? John No, because I remain largely ignorant of Ajax. http://mind.sourceforge.net/Mind.html and the JavaScript Mind User Manual (JMUM) at