RE: Goals of AGI (was Re: [agi] AGI interests)

2007-04-21 Thread John G. Rose
Compression can have many variants - encryption, encoding, storage pre-processing, information distillation, extraction and assimilation, lossily (sp?) and losslessly all in different levels and durations of preservation. If an AGI is receiving data from 1000 video camera's running full time it

RE: [agi] How should an AGI ponder about mathematics

2007-04-23 Thread John G. Rose
Hi, Adding some thoughts on AGI math - If the AGI or a sub processor of the AGI is allotted time to sleep or idle process it could lazily postulate and construct theorems with spare CPU cycles (cores are cheap nowadays), put things together and use those theorems to further test the processing of

RE: [agi] How should an AGI ponder about mathematics

2007-04-23 Thread John G. Rose
A baby AGI has immense advantage. It's starting (life?) after billions of years of evolution and thousands of years of civilization. A 5 YO child can't float all languages, all science, all mathematics, all recorded history, all encyclopedia, etc. in sub-millisecond RAM and be able to

RE: [agi] How should an AGI ponder about mathematics

2007-04-23 Thread John G. Rose
1. They will probably create more problems than they fix... as usual. But they should be able to assist man with his issues. Kind of like machines did. 2. You would have to imagine an ideal pure intelligence and bridge the gap somewhat. 1.What are your AGI's going to do with their

RE: [agi] How should an AGI ponder about mathematics

2007-04-23 Thread John G. Rose
From biological conception to old age the mind changes quite a bit already. Consciousness, sense of self, free will - all illusions. Fear of death - if the mind agent lost it perhaps it would choose to terminate unless something else supported its intent to keep running From: Matt

RE: [agi] GI as substrate for memetic evolution

2007-04-25 Thread John G. Rose
From: DEREK ZAHN [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Nothing particularly original here, but I think it's kind of interesting. Suppose that at some point, basically by accident, the brains of our ancestors became capable of supporting the evolution of memes. Biological evolution started with a

RE: [agi] Circular definitions of intelligence

2007-04-27 Thread John G. Rose
All this talk about stupid thermometers... Some thermometers are smarter than others. Why? When it comes to telling temperature they know what they are talking about. Some have higher margins of error; they may be off by 1/2 degree F. Others are right on. But then put one in an environment

RE: Time Enough For Work [WAS Re: [agi] What would motivate you to put work into an AGI project?]

2007-05-07 Thread John G. Rose
I've found that if I can do 16 to 24 hours on, and then sleep, and then another 16 to 24 hours on as long as the body can keep up I can reach really high thresholds of productivity with ephemeral visions of deep, comprehensive insight. In the past I've done self-directed data compression RD,

RE: [agi] RE: Time Enough For Work

2007-05-07 Thread John G. Rose
WKG is an application that takes spidering a few other common technologies and ties them together. Nothing really revolutionary... this is the 3rd prototype since 2000. The first was written in Visual Basic 6, the second in Delphi in 2002, and this version is a combo of C# and C++. This

[agi] AGI Taxonomy

2007-05-09 Thread John G. Rose
Is there a standard taxonomy of AGI that is referred to when talking about different AGIs or near AGIs? Saying that a software is an AGI or not an AGI is not descriptive enough. There are probably very few AGIs but many close AGIs and then many, many AIs. Software programs are like the plant

RE: [agi] Determinism

2007-05-14 Thread John G. Rose
Have to blurb on this as it irks me - Even if you write a Hello World app it is a mathematical entity expressed through a mathematical medium. Software layers from source to binary to OS to drivers are a gradation from the mathematically abstract to the physical world as is with painting an

RE: [agi] definitions of intelligence, again?!

2007-05-16 Thread John G. Rose
I may be coming in from left field and haven't read a lot of these discussions on defining intelligence, but defining intelligence verbally, yes, it can have numerous descriptions and arguments. But I need something concrete and measurable in the form of an equation. Is that too much to ask for?

RE: [agi] definitions of intelligence, again?!

2007-05-17 Thread John G. Rose
Intelligence - we're talking about storing and flipping bits - minimalistically that's it. How many variables will it take to come up with an equation? 6? 7? Some of the variables are specific and some may be general. One may be a measurement of complexity, one a vector set

RE: [agi] definitions of intelligence, again?!

2007-05-17 Thread John G. Rose
From: Richard Loosemore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] John G. Rose wrote: Intelligence - we're talking about storing and flipping bits - minimalistically that's it. How many variables will it take to come up with an equation? 6? 7? Some of the variables are specific and some may

RE: [agi] Intelligence vs Efficient Intelligence

2007-05-18 Thread John G. Rose
Time, entropy, bits, What else? -Original Message- From: John G. Rose [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 9:14 AM To: agi@v2.listbox.com Subject: RE: [agi] Intelligence vs Efficient Intelligence Time has to included maybe? -Original Message- From

RE: [agi] Intelligence vs Efficient Intelligence

2007-05-18 Thread John G. Rose
Time has to included maybe? -Original Message- From: Matt Mahoney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 7:55 AM To: agi@v2.listbox.com Subject: RE: [agi] Intelligence vs Efficient Intelligence --- John G. Rose [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you arrive at some sort

RE: [agi] Intelligence vs Efficient Intelligence

2007-05-18 Thread John G. Rose
have a cognition engine it operates over time and it will have units. -Original Message- From: Matt Mahoney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 9:48 AM To: agi@v2.listbox.com Subject: RE: [agi] Intelligence vs Efficient Intelligence --- John G. Rose [EMAIL

RE: [agi] Intelligence vs Efficient Intelligence

2007-05-18 Thread John G. Rose
Pretty good calculations :) Some thoughts on the topic of units and equations, some may be obvious or redundant - If something was extremely intelligent it would have an exact copy, bit for bit, of the whole universe in its head. Maybe that's saying that the universe is 100% intelligent

RE: [agi] Intelligence vs Efficient Intelligence

2007-05-19 Thread John G. Rose
bound thus places an upper limit on efficient intelligence according to current physics. This upper limit rules out wildly inefficient AI approaches such as AIXI. -- Ben G On 5/18/07, John G. Rose [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pretty good calculations :) Some thoughts on the topic of units

RE: [agi] Intelligence vs Efficient Intelligence

2007-05-20 Thread John G. Rose
I'm probably not answering your question but have been thinking more on all this. There's the usual thermodynamics stuff and relativistic physics that is going on with intelligence and flipping bits within this universe, verses the no-friction universe or Newtonian setup. But what I've been

RE: [agi] Intelligence vs Efficient Intelligence

2007-05-20 Thread John G. Rose
Oops heh I was eating French toast as I wrote this - intelligence (or the application of) or even perhaps consciousness is the real-time surfing of buttery effects I meant butterfly effects. John -Original Message- From: John G. Rose [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 20

RE: [agi] Intelligence vs Efficient Intelligence

2007-05-20 Thread John G. Rose
Well I'm going into conjecture area because my technical knowledge of some of these disciplines is weak, but I'll keep going just for grins. Take an example of an entity existing in a higher level of consciousness - a Buddha who has achieved enlightenment. What is going on there? Verses and ant

RE: There is no definition of intelligence [WAS Re: [agi] Intelligence vs Efficient Intelligence]

2007-05-21 Thread John G. Rose
So the first AGI gets built and is running for a few months and absorbs copies of all the bits on the internet. Then the AGI designer poses a question to the AGI: What is the definition of intelligence? AGI: Listen pop, I'm just doing my job and minding my own business. Designer: so.. you're

RE: [agi] Write a doctoral dissertation, trigger a Singularity

2007-05-24 Thread John G. Rose
Different people have different ways of communicating. Many Murray posts are sprinkled with annoyances but then they do have some intelligence and wisdom. They remind me of a W. C. Fields like way of speaking with some Snake Oil salesmanship. Actual Snake Oil BTW can be good for certain things

RE: [agi] Write a doctoral dissertation, trigger a Singularity

2007-05-24 Thread John G. Rose
content. Thus, he has negligible content value for me. On the other hand, since I tend not to freak -- he certainly does have some humor values (and there but for the grace . . . ) - Original Message - From: John G. Rose mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Different people have different

RE: [agi] Write a doctoral dissertation, trigger a Singularity

2007-05-25 Thread John G. Rose
is also that these individuals truly believe that they are at least as competent as most people in the field (if not better). I'd classify Mike Tintner as a similar individual. - Original Message - From: John G. Rose mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Here's Murray's book AI4U - http

RE: [agi] Opensource Business Model

2007-05-26 Thread John G. Rose
I like open source for a lot of things and have used quite a bit of it. A problem with open source and AGI is that if the AGI is going to work there's going to be some really cutting edge stuff with lots of elbow grease in there that I'm not sure too many people want to expose. For a basic AGI

RE: [agi] Opensource Business Model

2007-05-29 Thread John G. Rose
From: YKY (Yan King Yin) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Maybe if the project is modular people will more likely work within the project as they don't want to duplicate all the other modules. Modular in terms of having a framework where modules can be switched out and replaced. That way if

RE: [agi] Opensource Business Model

2007-05-30 Thread John G. Rose
This list hits all the main points. There can be slight variations but most all of the successful open source projects that I've utilized follow this pattern. There are some projects that start with a donation of code from a commercial codebase. Most projects tend to be modular. Some projects

RE: [agi] Open AGI Consortium

2007-06-03 Thread John G. Rose
It needs a Visual Studio 2005 Solution file in the source distro. Just having that would offer much encouragement to would-be developers. Does this thing actually talk to Novamente BTW? Though sockets? What's it doing? John From: Benjamin Goertzel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] But

RE: [agi] Re: Books

2007-06-07 Thread John G. Rose
Actually the book I'm reading now is AGI related - an old favorite, 1947 Coxeter's Regular Polytopes. Looking into KR as polytopes. Vertices, edges, faces, hyperfaces, cells, hypercells... Perhaps (or yes) the work done on polytopes can be used in KR or is being used somewhere ... polytopes as

[agi] AGI Generator - Make life easier?

2007-06-12 Thread John G. Rose
There are always the difficulties of creating AGI in software written by people. Maybe it would be easier to create the application that writes the AGI software. This is similar to a software that modifies its own source code yet different where the generator is a separate entity not integrated

RE: [agi] AGI Generator - Make life easier?

2007-06-12 Thread John G. Rose
No seriously. A good mathematical model of AGI, say lowest common denominator, created in category theory where all real AGI's are isomorphic to it. Make it abstract and minimalistic as possible. In the generator you have to include numerous mappings between math and source code so the thing

RE: [agi] AGI Consortium

2007-06-13 Thread John G. Rose
Even if YKY was to succeed in coming up with a new hybrid organizational structure, which could likely happen as there are definitely opportunities for innovation judging by existing structures, there still needs to be the traditional open source project that everybody and his brother(or sister)

RE: [agi] AGI Consortium

2007-06-15 Thread John G. Rose
Certainly there are many ways to slay the beast. And the beast has many definitions. For an open source AGI you'd have to not throw in the kitchen sink, come up was a very basic design and maybe not tout how the thing is going to trigger a singularity? Maybe not try to replicate human brain

RE: [agi] AI sleep

2007-08-03 Thread John G. Rose
From: Jey Kottalam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Why would an AI need to talk to itself or 'sleep'? What function does it serve? It's hard to understand your question without knowing the assumptions behind your question. I think sleep, hibernation and other types of dormancies are biological

[agi] Video Mining

2007-08-03 Thread John G. Rose
The internet is changing rapidly again. AGIs taking input off of the internet have to deal with text, audio, images, various symbologies e.g. mathematics representations, music, different types of protocalled or standardly formatted information e.g. autocad files, RFC'd communications, XML markup

RE: [agi] AI sleep

2007-08-03 Thread John G. Rose
From: Pei Wang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] There was a previous discussion on this topic: http://www.mail-archive.com/agi@v2.listbox.com/msg05028.html This light touching on the topic doesn't really do it justice. The more you think about sleep the more important it becomes depending on what

RE: [agi] Video Mining

2007-08-04 Thread John G. Rose
Video Analysis covering several functions including recognition of objects. Seeing an object and identifying it immediately with an object in memory. See a tree and identify it as a tree and then perhaps a pine tree and then even the species depending on how much visual data is available; go right

RE: [agi] Video Mining

2007-08-05 Thread John G. Rose
Well yes, breezing over the details, there are many, and building the software would be a full time effort for many months at least. I'm sure there are some commercial products already built and they would be expensive to license into an AGI application. It would be nice if the solution would be

RE: [agi] Video Mining

2007-08-05 Thread John G. Rose
Self, POV, I - these may be more biological, evolutionary optimized, physical things not required in an AGI. Picture two fused human brains created in a lab 50 years from now by some mad scientist. What type of self would this be? In AGI software self could be geographically distributed

RE: [agi] Video Mining

2007-08-05 Thread John G. Rose
For object recognition think of OCR. OCR is very good now. It's not AGI it's, I dare to say, basically a mechanical operation. For general object recognition the same type of speed and accuracy would fit the bill. Is there a self needed for OCR? For us yes a self is integral. If you are

RE: [agi] Video Mining

2007-08-06 Thread John G. Rose
Sounds like a finite state machine - actions, events, transitions, context, states... Consciousness maybe is a hierarchical FSM. What happens if the event queue overflows? John From: a [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] What you see is dependent on your reaction. How you react is dependent on

RE: [agi] Re: [META] Re: Economic libertarianism .....

2007-10-11 Thread John G. Rose
I agree though there may be some room for discussing AGI dealing with politics as a complex system. How an AGI would interact politically with groups of people. And AGI embedded in governmental computer systems. And AGI running for office? Gosh. Let's kill it before it happens :) John From:

RE: [agi] Do the inference rules.. P.S.

2007-10-11 Thread John G. Rose
This is how I envision it when a text only AGI is fed its world view as text only. The more text it processes the more a spatial physical system would emerge internally assuming it is fed text that describes physical things. Certain relational laws are common across text that describe and reflect

RE: [agi] The Grounding of Maths

2007-10-12 Thread John G. Rose
With math if it is an analog or continuous equation I try to see it in my head and it looks like a 3D or higher dimensional mixed liquid of different color paints. A color may correspond to a variable in the equation or mixtures of colors are intersecting Cartesian graphs. Fuzz is fuzz like

RE: [agi] The Grounding of Maths

2007-10-12 Thread John G. Rose
From: a [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [agi] The Grounding of Maths Mark Waser wrote: You have shown me *ZERO* evidence that vision is required for intelligence and blind from birth individuals provide virtually proof positive that vision is not necessary for intelligence.

RE: [agi] The Grounding of Maths

2007-10-15 Thread John G. Rose
Vision could cover many things. Two eyeballs the size of planets that only see neutrinos could constitute a vision system. Probes that see vibrations or heat or chemicals are vision. RADAR, LADAR, SONAR, seismic, electromagnetic, PET scan, salinity, ph, any type of particle, energy, space

RE: [agi] Why roboticists have more fun

2007-10-16 Thread John G. Rose
From: Jiri Jelinek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [agi] Why roboticists have more fun Just a quick note: Sex - that's a narrow AI, but Levy reportedly also forecasts legalization of marriages with robots by 2050. That would probably take AGI and I gues not just an AGI, but, in

RE: [agi] Poll

2007-10-18 Thread John G. Rose
From: J Storrs Hall, PhD [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I'd be interested in everyone's take on the following: 1. What is the single biggest technical gap between current AI and AGI? (e.g. we need a way to do X or we just need more development of Y or we have the ideas, just need hardware,

RE: [agi] An AGI Test/Prize

2007-10-19 Thread John G. Rose
I think that there really needs to be more very specifically defined quantitative measures of intelligence. If there were questions that could be asked of an AGI that would require x units of intelligence to solve otherwise they would be unsolvable. I know that this is a hopeless foray on this

RE: [agi] More public awarenesss that AGI is coming fast

2007-10-19 Thread John G. Rose
From: J. Andrew Rogers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] AGI is poorly suited for venture capital in every case I can think of. Ignoring everything else, it tends to leave the venture constantly begging for capital which has serious consequences on performance and reputation. It is a Catch-22,

RE: [agi] More public awarenesss that AGI is coming fast

2007-10-18 Thread John G. Rose
From: Bob Mottram [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [agi] More public awarenesss that AGI is coming fast Despite these arguments there are good reasons for caution. When you look at the history of AI research one thing tends to stand out - some people never seem to learn of the

RE: [agi] More public awarenesss that AGI is coming fast

2007-10-19 Thread John G. Rose
From: J. Andrew Rogers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [agi] More public awarenesss that AGI is coming fast Why does an AGI deliverable require more than 3-4 years? You better have a good answer for that, or no one will fund you. Most people *don't* have a good answer for that.

RE: [agi] An AGI Test/Prize

2007-10-20 Thread John G. Rose
No you are not mundane. All these things on the list (or most) are very well to be expected from a generally intelligent system or its derivatives. But I have this urge, being a software developer, to smash all these things up into their constituent components, partition commonalties, eliminate

RE: [agi] An AGI Test/Prize

2007-10-20 Thread John G. Rose
Well I'm neck deep in 55,000 semi-colons of code in this AI app I'm building and need to get this bastich out the do' and it's probably going to grow to 80,000 before version 1.0. But at some point it needs to grow a brain. Yes I have my AGI design in mind since late 90's and had been watching

RE: [agi] An AGI Test/Prize

2007-10-20 Thread John G. Rose
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic_structure http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular_automata Start reading.. John From: Edward W. Porter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] John, [A]bstract algebra based engine that's basically an algebraic structure pump sounds really

RE: [agi] An AGI Test/Prize

2007-10-20 Thread John G. Rose
Vladimir, That may very well be the case and something that I'm unaware of. The system I have in mind basically has I/O that is algebraic structures. Everything that it deals with is modeled this way. Any sort of system that it analyzes it converts to a particular structure that represents the

RE: [agi] An AGI Test/Prize

2007-10-20 Thread John G. Rose
Hi Edward, I don't see any problems dealing with either discrete or continuous. In fact in some ways it'd be nice to eliminate discrete and just operate in continuous mode. But discrete maps very well with binary computers. Continuous is just a lot of discrete, the density depending on

RE: [agi] An AGI Test/Prize

2007-10-22 Thread John G. Rose
Ben, That is sort of a neat kind of device. Will have to think about that as it is fairly dynamic I may have to look that one up and potentially experiment on it. The kinds of algebraic structures I'm talking about basically are as many as possible. Also things like sets w/o operators,

RE: [agi] An AGI Test/Prize

2007-10-22 Thread John G. Rose
Holy writhing Mandelbrot sets, Batman! Why real and non-division? I particularly don't like real -- my computer can't handle the precision :-) Robin - forget all this digital stuff it's a trap, we need some analog nano-computers to help fight these crispy impostors! John - This list

RE: [agi] An AGI Test/Prize

2007-10-22 Thread John G. Rose
Yeah I'm not really agreeing with you here. I feel that, though I haven't really studied other cognitive software structures, but I feel that they can built simpler and more efficient. But I shouldn't come out saying that unless I attack some of the details right? But that's a gut reaction I have

RE: [agi] An AGI Test/Prize

2007-10-22 Thread John G. Rose
Vladimir, I'm using system as kind of a general word for a set and operator(s). You are understanding it correctly except templates is not right. The templates are actually a vast internal complex of structure which includes morphisms which are like templates. But you are right it does

RE: [agi] one more indication

2007-10-24 Thread John G. Rose
Very related to evolution, reproduction, survival, circadian, very lunar and solar. You're a protohuman, it's dark and cold at night, body is in reduction of energy mode, the brain optimizes and increases the probability of survival - where will you go tomorrow for highest probability of food,

RE: [agi] definition source?

2007-11-07 Thread John G. Rose
From: Matt Mahoney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I think all of these boil down to a simple equation with just a few variables. Anyone have it? It'd be nice if it included some sort of computational complexity energy expression in it. Yes. Intelligence is the expected reward in an

RE: [agi] How valuable is Solmononoff Induction for real world AGI?

2007-11-08 Thread John G. Rose
From: Jef Allbright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I recently found this paper to contain some thinking worthwhile to the considerations in this thread. http://lcsd05.cs.tamu.edu/papers/veldhuizen.pdf This is an excellent paper not in only the subject of code reuse but also of the techniques

RE: [agi] Re: Superseding the TM [Was: How valuable is Solmononoff...]

2007-11-09 Thread John G. Rose
From: Bryan Bishop [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I already have some basics of merging OOP and Group/Category Theory. Am working on some ideas on jamming, or I should say intertwining automata in that. The complexity integration still trying to figure out... trying to stay as far from

[agi] Holonomics

2007-11-10 Thread John G. Rose
Here is a stimulating read available online about emergent meta-systems and Holonomics...ties a lot of things together, very rich reading. http://www.scribd.com/doc/10456/Reflexive-Autopoietic-Dissipative-Speical-Sy stems-Theory-PalmerKD-2007vZ - This list is sponsored by AGIRI:

RE: [agi] What best evidence for fast AI?

2007-11-10 Thread John G. Rose
Bravo this is great. I like the part about Marx's labor theory of value. AGI economics - isn't that a world that lends itself to making a compelling financial pitch. John From: Edward W. Porter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Robin, I am an evangelist for the fact that the time for

RE: [agi] What best evidence for fast AI?

2007-11-10 Thread John G. Rose
Yes this is true. Sometimes though I think that we need to build AGI weapons ASAP. Why? The human race needs to protect itself from other potentially aggressive beings. Humans treat animals pretty bad as an example. The earth is a sitting duck. How do we defend ourselves? Clumsy nukes? Not good

RE: [agi] Holonomics

2007-11-12 Thread John G. Rose
From: Jef Allbright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 11/12/07, Benjamin Goertzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I read it more as if it were a very highbrow sort of poetry ;-) Same here. At first I was disappointed and irritated by the lack of meaningful content (or was it all content, but

RE: [agi] Holonomics

2007-11-12 Thread John G. Rose
From: Jef Allbright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] No real argument there, but it reminds me STRONGLY of my experience as a poetic genius about 30 years ago during one of three scientific LSD trips. Brilliant, I tell you! On a more practical note, intelligence is not so much about making

RE: Re[4]: [agi] Funding AGI research

2007-11-25 Thread John G. Rose
Yeah - because weak AI is so simple. Why not just make some run-of-the-mill narrow AI with a single goal of Build AGI? You can just relax while it does all the work. I kind of like the idea of building software that then builds AGI. But you could say that that software is part of the AGI

RE: Re[4]: [agi] Funding AGI research

2007-11-27 Thread John G. Rose
From: Matt Mahoney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] What are the best current examples of (to any extent) self-building software ? So far, most of the effort has been concentrated on acquiring the necessary computing power. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_botnet Just think of the

RE: Re[4]: [agi] Funding AGI research

2007-11-27 Thread John G. Rose
From: Benjamin Goertzel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] State of the art is: -- Just barely, researchers have recently gotten automated program learning to synthesize an nlogn sorting algorithm based on the goal of sorting a large set of lists as rapidly as possible... -- OTOH, automatic

RE: Re[4]: [agi] Funding AGI research

2007-11-27 Thread John G. Rose
From: Mike Tintner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] John: I kind of like the idea of building software that then builds AGI. What are the best current examples of (to any extent) self-building software ? Microsoft includes a facility in dot NET called Reflection that allows code to inspect itself

RE: Re[4]: [agi] Funding AGI research

2007-11-27 Thread John G. Rose
From: Matt Mahoney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] It amazes me that a crime of this scale can go on for a year and we are powerless to stop it either through law enforcement or technology. The Storm botnet already controls enough computing power to simulate a neural network the size of several

RE: Re[6]: [agi] Funding AGI research

2007-11-27 Thread John G. Rose
From: Dennis Gorelik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] John, I kind of like the idea of building software that then builds AGI. Sorry, but building AGI is less complex than building software that is able to build AGI. It totally depends on the design. When you write your narrow AI app you use

RE: Re[4]: [agi] Funding AGI research

2007-11-27 Thread John G. Rose
So far, they have not succeeded in killing it. An intelligent, self improving worm would be even harder to kill. Once every computer was infected, it would be impossible. Well it's like who really owns your computers resources? There is so much stuff going on there I don't think it is

RE: Re[8]: [agi] Funding AGI research

2007-11-27 Thread John G. Rose
My claim is that it's possible [and necessary] to split massive amount of work that has to be done for AGI into smaller narrow AI chunks in such a way that every narrow AI chunk has it's own business meaning and can pay for itself. You have not addressed my claim, which has massive

RE: [agi] Where are the women?

2007-11-28 Thread John G. Rose
From: Mike Tintner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike: To be fair, ask this same question but replace women with any other 'minority' and see if it's still a problem. I think women are the majority, aren't they? Anyway, yes, women are remarkably absent here. You will find them in fair

RE: Re[8]: [agi] Funding AGI research

2007-11-28 Thread John G. Rose
From: Bob Mottram [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't think we yet know enough about how DNA works to be able to call it a conglomerated mess, but you're probably right that the same principle applies to any information system adapting over time. Similarly the thinking of teenagers or young

RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-11-28 Thread John G. Rose
From: Richard Loosemore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I can answer this for you, because I was once an anti-virus developer, so I have seen the internal code of more viruses than I care to think about. The answer is NO. Malicious hackers are among the world's most stupid programmers. We

RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-11-29 Thread John G. Rose
From: BillK [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] This discussion is a bit out of date. Nowadays no hackers (except for script kiddies) are interested in wiping hard disks or damaging your pc. Hackers want to *use* your pc and the data on it. Mostly the general public don't even notice their pc is

RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-11-29 Thread John G. Rose
From: Bob Mottram [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] There have been a few attempts to use the internet for data collection which might be used to build AIs, or for teaching chatbots such as jabberwacky, but you're right that as yet nobody has really made use of the internet as a basis for

RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-11-29 Thread John G. Rose
in conjunction with a distributed web crawler. Ed Porter -Original Message- From: John G. Rose [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 7:27 PM To: agi@v2.listbox.com Subject: RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research] From: Ed Porter

RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-11-29 Thread John G. Rose
-Original Message- From: John G. Rose [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 8:31 PM To: agi@v2.listbox.com Subject: RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research] Ed, That is the http protocol, it is a client server request/response

RE: Re[8]: [agi] Funding AGI research

2007-11-29 Thread John G. Rose
From: Dennis Gorelik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] John, Is building the compiler more complex than building any application it can build? Note, that compiler doesn't build application. Programmer does (using compiler as a tool). Very true. So then, is the programmer + compiler more

RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-11-30 Thread John G. Rose
1Kmsg/sec rate as the client to server upload you discribed? Ed Porter -Original Message- From: John G. Rose [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 11:40 PM To: agi@v2.listbox.com Subject: RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research] OK

RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-11-30 Thread John G. Rose
- From: John G. Rose [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 12:33 PM To: agi@v2.listbox.com Subject: RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research] Hi Ed, If the peer is not running other apps utilizing the network it could do the same. Typically

RE: [agi] Self-building AGI

2007-11-30 Thread John G. Rose
From: Dennis Gorelik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] John, Note, that compiler doesn't build application. Programmer does (using compiler as a tool). Very true. So then, is the programmer + compiler more complex that the AGI ever will be? No. I don't even see how it relates to what I

RE: Re[2]: [agi] Self-building AGI

2007-12-01 Thread John G. Rose
From: Dennis Gorelik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] There are programs that already write source code. The trick is to write working and useful apps. Many of the apps that write code basically take data and statically convert it to a source code representation. So a code generator may allow you to

RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-02 Thread John G. Rose
up with pretty good word sense models. Ed Porter -Original Message- From: John G. Rose [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 2:55 PM To: agi@v2.listbox.com Subject: RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research] Ed, That is probably

RE: Re[4]: [agi] Self-building AGI

2007-12-02 Thread John G. Rose
From: Dennis Gorelik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] John, If you look at nanotechnology one of the goals is to build machines that build machines. Couldn't software based AGI be similar? Eventually AGIs will be able to build other AGIs, but first AGI models won't be able to build any

RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-03 Thread John G. Rose
From: Richard Loosemore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] The reason it reminds me of this episode is that you are calmly talking here about the high dimensional problem of seeking to understand the meaning of text, which often involve multiple levels of implication, which would normally be

RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-03 Thread John G. Rose
From: Bryan Bishop [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I am not sure what the next step would be. The first step might be enough for the moment. When you have the network functioning at all, expose an API so that other programmers can come in and try to utilize sentence analysis (and other functions)

RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-03 Thread John G. Rose
From: Ed Porter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Once you build up good models for parsing and word sense, then you read large amounts of text and start building up model of the realities described and generalizations from them. Assuming this is a continuation of the discussion of an AGI-at-home

RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-03 Thread John G. Rose
From: Richard Loosemore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] It is easy for a research field to agree that certain problems are really serious and unsolved. A hundred years ago, the results of the Michelson-Morley experiments were a big unsolved problem, and pretty serious for the foundations of

RE: [agi] What are the real unsolved issues in AGI [WAS Re: Hacker intelligence

2007-12-03 Thread John G. Rose
From: Richard Loosemore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I think this is a very important issue in AGI, which is why I felt compelled to say something. As you know, I keep trying to get meaningful debate to happen on the subject of *methodology* in AGI. That is what my claims about the complex

RE: [agi] RE:P2P and/or communal AGI development [WAS Hacker intelligence level...]

2007-12-03 Thread John G. Rose
For some lucky cable folks the BW is getting ready to increase soon: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071130-docsis-3-0-possible-100mbps-sp eeds-coming-to-some-comcast-users-in-2008.html I'm yet to fully understand the limitations of a P2P based AGI design or the augmentational ability of

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