And yes, Matt Mahoney is trolling me like he commonly does, I've gotten used to it... of course I respond to his trolling not for his own delectation (I don't delude myself that anything I say is going to influence his perspective significantly) but for others in the audience who may be interested and with a more open-minded perspective ;) ...
On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 2:40 PM Ben Goertzel <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks John. I am working now on another paper that makes clearer > how the Patterns of Cognition material fits into an overall theory and > practice of general intelligence. > > The paragraph you highlight is a critical one, yeah. Just as the > hierarchical structures in current deep NNs are only approximately > what you want for modeling patterns in physical reality -- yet are > still quite useful -- similarly metagraph folds/unfolds are only > approximately what you want for modeling abstractions needed for > practical transfer learning and generalization -- yet are still quite > useful... General cognition is just going to be super-slow and > cumbersome by nature, so practical AGI systems need to involve > subsystems operating on varying levels of generality, appropriately > optimized in ways that exploit their limitations... > > > On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 2:15 PM John Rose <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Anyone who has worked on large complex software engineering projects, > > especially AGI which tops them all knows about redesigns/rewrites. It's a > > good sign actually. And it's a form of RSI. > > > > The way to grok this paper, the way I approach it is to scan it back and > > forth many times then imagine the graphs in your mind, visualize the > > hypergraphs, metagraphs, operations, inference, learning, mining, > > attention, then folding and then Galois Connections. I don't fully > > comprehend all aspects but I know Ben has unique perspective on designing > > and building these things so I at least make the effort. Hijacking the > > message thread to ask why it ain't it done yet is really being a troll, is > > annoying and disrespectful IMO. > > > > This here I find interesting, it's a decision based on much experience > > apparently: > > > > "Because AGI systems necessarily involve dynamic updating of the knowledge > > base > > on which cognitive algorithms are acting, in the course of the cognitive > > algorithm’s > > activity, there is an unavoidable heuristic aspect to the application of > > the theory given > > here to real AGI systems. The equivalence of a recursively defined DDS on a > > metagraph > > to a folding and unfolding process across that metagraph only holds > > rigorously if one > > assumes the metagraph is not changing during the folding - which will not > > generally be > > the case. What needs to happen in practice, I suggest, is that the folding > > and unfolding > > happen and they do change the metagraph, and one then has a complex > > self-organizing / > > self-modifying system that is only moderately well approximated by the > > idealized case > > directly addressed by the theory presented here." > > > > There's a tradeoff between fidelity and implementable practicality it > > seems. Go for the low hanging fruit. > > > > John > > > > Artificial General Intelligence List / AGI / see discussions + participants > > + delivery options Permalink > > > > -- > Ben Goertzel, PhD > http://goertzel.org > > “He not busy being born is busy dying" -- Bob Dylan -- Ben Goertzel, PhD http://goertzel.org “He not busy being born is busy dying" -- Bob Dylan ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/Ta5ed5d0d0e4de96d-Mdda97a2f90c2f0966af1bd43 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
