>> MOSES is currently in use for, e.g. financial time series prediction and >> genomic data analysis... >> >> It seems to have substantial advantages over competing algorithms for both... > > Any papers or benchmark data?
The financial-domain work is all proprietary... Some genomics analysis done with MOSES has been published, but mostly I've been using it to get useful biological results for customers. Unlike, say, with SVM, nobody has focused attention on trying to prove MOSES's superiority by tuning it to kick ass on machine learning benchmark tests. I'm pretty confident that if someone had done so, it would be popular in the machine learning community.... Informally, in both finance and genomics we've compared it to leading machine learning tools with available code and very often found it to work better.... On the other hand, we may be better at tweaking MOSES than at tweaking these other tools... >> But that is not AGI, it's narrow-AI work using a tool that happens to also >> serve as a component of a proto-AGI system... > > How would you use it for AGI? E.g. it can (in principle) be used to learn procedures for controlling an agent to carry out actions aimed at achieving goals in a world.... This requires it to learn programs involving more complex control structures, whereas in machine learning applications you pretty much just need it to learn programs involving arithmetic and logical operators... We did some of this in the virtual-dog experiments way back when (having MOSES learn programs involving loops and conditionals)... But loops and conditionals aren't really enough either. Jade has been doing some preliminary work aimed at making MOSES capable of learning programs involving fold and other list operations... So, the same basic automated program learning framework can support learning of simplistic programs as useful for standard "machine learning" applications, or programs with a richer semantics as needed for agent control... -- Ben ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
