What you have is a v. vague *hypothesis*. A *theory* involves evidence as to why it may work..
And you have no Operational Definition of what effect you’re trying to achieve. Not even the teeniest weeniest hint of an O.D. Tch, tch. From: Jim Bromer Sent: Monday, April 15, 2013 4:14 AM To: AGI Subject: [agi] Re: Summary of My Current Theory For an AGI Program. Part 4 Artificial imagination is also necessary for AGI. Imagination can take place simply by creating associations between concepts but obviously the best forms of imagination are going to be based on rational meaningfulness. An association between concepts or (concept objects) which cannot be interpreted as meaningful is not usually very useful. So it seems that if the relationship is both imaginative and potentially meaningful it would be advantageous. An association formed by a categorical substitution is more likely to be meaningful so I consider this a rational form of imagination. However, you can find many examples where a categorical substitution does not produce a meaningful association, so perhaps my claim that it is a rational process is dependent on the likelihood that the process will turn up a greater proportion of meaningful relations than purely random associations. Some imaginative relations may exist just as entertainment, but I believe that the application of the imagination is one of the more important steps toward understanding. In fact, I believe that all understanding is essentially a form of imaginative projection, where you project previously formed ideas onto an ongoing situation which is recognized or thought to share some characteristics with the projected ideas. So from this point of view, the reliance of previously learned knowledge is really an application of the imagination. Perhaps it is a special form of imagination but the imagination none the less. Anyway, once an imaginative association or relation is created it has to be tested. I feel that relations of understanding cannot be appreciated out of context. The basic rule of thumb is that it takes knowledge of many things to understand one thing. This creates a problem when trying to test or validate an insight which was partially produced by the imagination or which had to be fitted using imaginative projection. The only way an AGI program is going to be able to validate a new idea is by seeing how well it fits and how well it works in a variety of related contexts. This is what I call a structural integration. It not only represents a single concept but it also carries a lot of other information with it that can seemingly explain a lot of other small facts as well. A new idea seems to make sense if it fits in with a number of insights that were previously acquired. On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 3:30 PM, Jim Bromer <[email protected]> wrote: Part 3 The program will make extensive use of generalizations and cross-generalization. The program will need to be able to discover abstractions. These abstractions typically may be used to develop generalizations. A generalization may be formed from a group in which all the members share some common characteristics. However, generalizations may also be formed by various arbitrary processes. And, if the program works, generalizations may be formed in response to some educational instruction. The most typical example of cross-generalization may be the consideration of similarities across individual systems of taxonomies or classes or subclasses. In this broad definition of generalization, the collections do not have to be grouped by any common characteristic and the same can go for cross-categorizations. Although this might be a misuse of the term generalization, the generalizations that my program will create may not be trees because they can potentially branch off in different directions. Indexes into data for internal searches may be formed in a similar way but I will have to think about whether the variety of branching makes sense as I am developing the program. I believe that because of the variety of forms of generalization or categorization that the program will use it is necessary for the program to keep track of the different kinds of categorization and generalization that it develops. And it will put transcendent boundaries around portions of the generalizations that it develops as it uses them in particular ways. These boundaries are transcendent in that overlapping relations may be considered across them (as in cross-generalization or cross-categorization). Perhaps the terms relations and categorization are more abstract than the terms of generalization. So the program will be able to develop abstractions of relations and then build categorizations from these relations. The categories that I have in mind may be somewhat free-wheeling. Cross-categorization will be important because they will help the program find and consider similarities across the categorical structures. These categorical structures may need to be bounded, but since bounded categories may still be related across a relatively dominant categorical relation that means that they can be transcended by other associative relations. On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 7:34 AM, Jim Bromer <[email protected]> wrote: Part 2 I believe that it takes a great deal of knowledge to 'understand' one thing. A statement has to be integrated into a greater collection of knowledge in order for the relations of understanding to be formed. And the knowledge of a single statement has to be integrated into a greater field of knowledge concerning the central features of the subject for the intelligent entity to truly understand the statement. While conceptual integration, by some name, has always been a primary subject in AI/AGI, I think it was relegated to a subservient position by those who originally stressed the formal methods of logic, linguistics, psychology, numerics, probability, and neural networks. Thinking that the details of how ideas work in actual thinking was either part of some predawn-of-science-philosophy or the turn-of-the-crank production of the successful application of formal methods, a focus on the details of how ideas work in actual problems was seen as naïve. This problem, where the smartest thinkers would spend lives pursuing the abstract problems without wasting their time carefully examining many real world cases occurs often in science. It is amplified by ignorance. If no one knows how to create a practical application then the experts in the field may become overly pre-occupied with the proposed formal methods that had been presented to them. Formal methods are important - but they are each only one kind of thing. It takes a great deal of knowledge about many different things to 'understand' one kind of thing. A reasonable rule of thumb is that formal methods have to be tried and shaped based on exhaustive applications of the methods to real world problems. In order to integrate new knowledge the new idea that is being introduced usually has to be verified using many steps to show that it holds. Since there is no absolute insight into truth for this kind of thing, knowledge has to be integrated in a more thorough trial and error manner. The program has to create new theories about statements or reactions it is considering. This would extend to interpretations of observations for systems where other kinds of sensory systems were used. A single experiment does not 'prove' a new theory in science. A large number of experiments are required and most of those experiments have to demonstrate that the application of the theory can lead to better understanding of other related effects. It takes a knowledge of a great many things to verify a statement about one thing. In order for the knowledge represented by a statement to be verified and comprehended it has to be related to, and integrated with, a great many other statements concerning the primary subject matter. It is necessary to see how the primary subject matter may be used in many different kinds of thoughts to be able to understand it. On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 6:39 AM, Jim Bromer <[email protected]> wrote: Part 1 I feel that complexity is a major problem facing contemporary AGI. It is true, that for most human reasoning we do not need to figure out complicated problems precisely in order to take the first steps toward competency but so far AGI has not been able to get very far beyond the narrow-AI barrier. I am going to start with a text-based AGI program. I agree that more kinds of IO modalities would make an effective AGI program better. However, I am not aware of any evidence that sensory-based AGI or multi-modal sensory based AGI or robotic based AGI has been able to achieve something greater than other efforts. The core of AGI is not going to be found in the peripherals. And it is clear that starting with complicated IO accessories would make AGI programming more difficult. It seems obvious that IO is necessary for AI/AGI and this abstraction is a probably more appropriate basis for the requirements of AGI. My AGI program is going to be based on discreet references. I feel that the argument that only neural networks are able to learn or are able to incorporate different kinds of data objects into an associative field is not accurate. I do, however, feel that more attention needs to be paid to concept integration. And I think that many of us recognize that a good AGI model is going to create an internal reference model that is a kind of network. The discreet reference model more easily allows the program to retain the components of an agglomeration in a way in which the traditional neural network does not. This means that it is more likely that the parts of an associative agglomeration can be detected. On the other hand, since the program will develop its own internal data objects, these might be formed in such a way so that the original parts might be difficult to detect. With a more conscious effort to better understand concept integration I think that the discreet conceptual network model will prove itself fairly easily. I am going to use weighted reasoning and probability but only to a limited extent. 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