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

2010-08-08 Thread wannabe
I don't know if it's low-hanging fruit, but it certainly seems like it would require AGI to have a system that could given some picture or video input, say what some object is. And along those lines, accept verbal instruction as to what it is if it's wrong in what it thinks. I bring that up

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

2010-08-08 Thread deepakjnath
1. Basic object recognition can be used in camera phones to identify people in front or objects in front. This can be used by blind people to navigate their environment better. 2. AGI expert systems can be used to diagnose diseases. thanks, Deepak On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 6:40 AM, Ben Goertzel

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

2010-08-08 Thread Ian Parker
Just one point about Forex, your first entry. This is purely a time series analysis as I understand it. It is narrow AI in fact. With AGI you would expect interviews with the executives of listed companies, just as the big investment houses do. AGI would be data mining of everything about a

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2010-08-08 Thread Abram Demski
Ian, Be courteous-- Ben asked specifically that any arguments about which things are narrow-ai should start a separate topic. Yea, I did not intend to rule out any possible sources of information for the stock market prediction task. Ben has worked on a system which looked on the web for chatter

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

2010-08-08 Thread Steve Richfield
Ben On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 6:10 PM, Ben Goertzel b...@goertzel.org wrote: I need to substantiate the case for such AGI technology by making an argument for high-value apps. There is interesting hidden value in some stuff. In the case of Dr. Eliza, it provide a communication pathway to sick

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

2010-08-08 Thread Ian Parker
OK Ben is then one step ahead of Forex. Point is time series analysis, although it is narrow AI can be extremely powerful. The situation about * sentiment* is different from that of Poker where there is a single adversary bluffing. A time series analysis encompasses the *ensemble* of different

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