[agi] Tesla Journal Submission: Mentifex Mad Science

2010-08-07 Thread A. T. Murray
Mad Science Theory-Based Artificial Intelligence Abstract The patient insists that he has created an artificial Mind, a virtual entity capable of abstract thought and self-awareness. Further, his research is too dangerous to be published outside of the Tesla Journal, because Mentifex AI

Re: [agi] $35 ( 2GB RAM) it is

2010-08-07 Thread deepakjnath
This is done in a university in my city.! :) That is our Education Minister :) cheers, Deepak On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 6:04 PM, Mike Tintner tint...@blueyonder.co.ukwrote: http://shockedinvestor.blogspot.com/2010/07/new-35-laptop-unveiled.html --- agi

Re: [agi] $35 ( 2GB RAM) it is

2010-08-07 Thread Mike Tintner
sounds like a great achievement - or not? From: deepakjnath Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2010 2:55 PM To: agi Subject: Re: [agi] $35 ( 2GB RAM) it is This is done in a university in my city.! :) That is our Education Minister :) cheers, Deepak On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 6:04 PM, Mike Tintner

Re: [agi] Epiphany - Statements of Stupidity

2010-08-07 Thread Steve Richfield
John, You brought up some interesting points... On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 10:54 PM, John G. Rose johnr...@polyplexic.comwrote: -Original Message- From: Steve Richfield [mailto:steve.richfi...@gmail.com] On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 10:09 AM, John G. Rose johnr...@polyplexic.com wrote:

Re: [agi] Epiphany - Statements of Stupidity

2010-08-07 Thread Ian Parker
I wanted to see what other people's views were.My own view of the risks is as follows. If the Turing Machine is built to be as isomorphic with humans as possible, it would be incredibly dangerous. Indeed I feel that the biological model is far more dangerous than the mathematical. If on the other

Re: [agi] Help requested: Making a list of (non-robotic) AGI low hanging fruit apps

2010-08-07 Thread Matt Mahoney
Wouldn't it depend on the other researcher's area of expertise? -- Matt Mahoney, matmaho...@yahoo.com From: Ben Goertzel b...@goertzel.org To: agi agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Sat, August 7, 2010 9:10:23 PM Subject: [agi] Help requested: Making a list of

Re: [agi] Help requested: Making a list of (non-robotic) AGI low hanging fruit apps

2010-08-07 Thread Ben Goertzel
His request explicitly said he is focusing on voice and vision. I think that is enough specificity... ben On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 9:22 PM, Matt Mahoney matmaho...@yahoo.com wrote: Wouldn't it depend on the other researcher's area of expertise? -- Matt Mahoney, matmaho...@yahoo.com

Re: [agi] Help requested: Making a list of (non-robotic) AGI low hanging fruit apps

2010-08-07 Thread Abram Demski
Ben, -The oft-mentioned stock-market prediction; -data mining, especially for corporate data such as customer behavior, sales prediction, etc; -decision support systems; -personal assistants; -chatbots (think, an ipod that talks to you when you are lonely); -educational uses including human-like

Re: [agi] Help requested: Making a list of (non-robotic) AGI low hanging fruit apps

2010-08-07 Thread Mike Tintner
Why don't you kick it off with a suggestion of your own? (I think there are only lower/basic *robotic* AGI apps- and suggest no one will come up with any answers for you. Why don't you disprove me?) -- From: Ben Goertzel b...@goertzel.org Sent:

Re: [agi] Help requested: Making a list of (non-robotic) AGI low hanging fruit apps

2010-08-07 Thread David Jones
Hey Ben, Faster, cheaper, and more robust 3D modeling for the movie industry. The modeling allows different sources of video content to be extracted from scenes, manipulated and mixed with others. The movie industry has the money and motivation to extract data from images. Making it easier, more

Re: [agi] Help requested: Making a list of (non-robotic) AGI low hanging fruit apps

2010-08-07 Thread Russell Wallace
If you can do better voice recognition, that's a significant application in its own right, as well as having uses in other applications e.g. automated first layer for call centers. If you can do better image/video recognition, there are a great many uses for that -- look at all the things people

Re: [agi] Help requested: Making a list of (non-robotic) AGI low hanging fruit apps

2010-08-07 Thread Steve Richfield
Ben, Dr. Eliza with the Gracie interface to Dragon NaturallySpeaking makes a really spectacular speech I/O demo - when it works, which is ~50% of the time. The other 50% of the time, it fails to recognize enough to run with, misses something critical, etc., and just sounds stupid, kinda like most

Re: [agi] Epiphany - Statements of Stupidity

2010-08-07 Thread Steve Richfield
Ian, I recall several years ago that a group in Britain was operating just such a chatterbox as you explained, but did so on numerous sex-related sites, all running simultaneously. The chatterbox emulated young girls looking for sex. The program just sat there doing its thing on numerous sites,

Re: [agi] How To Create General AI Draft2

2010-08-07 Thread David Jones
Abram, Thanks for the comments. I think probability is just one way to deal with uncertainty. Defeasible reasoning is another. Non-monotonic logic of various implementations. I often think that probability is the wrong way to do some things regarding AGI design. Maybe things can't be known

Re: [agi] How To Create General AI Draft2

2010-08-07 Thread David Jones
Mike, I took your comments into consideration and have been updating my paper to make sure these problems are addressed. See more comments below. On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Mike Tintner tint...@blueyonder.co.ukwrote: 1) You don't define the difference between narrow AI and AGI - or make