I know plenty about conceptual blending – so what? – other than that the
authors are more cognitive embodied scientists.
From: Dimitry Volfson
Sent: Saturday, May 11, 2013 11:59 PM
To: AGI
Subject: Re: [agi] A General O.D. (Operational Definition) for all AGI projects
Look Up: "Conceptual Blending" on wikipedia.
On 5/11/2013 4:25 AM, Mike Tintner wrote:
What we’ve just seen with Jim is yet another example here of effective
creative illiteracy –s.o. talking about their “creative” AGI project without
any attempt at defining either its O.D. (the effect to be achieved) or an
effective mechanism - without, to put that extremely crudely in common
parlance, having any “idea”.
To repeat, this is appalling – it’s simply non-creative and a waste of space.
So to take further steps to eradicate this disease, let me put forward a
general O.D. for A.G.I projects (and to some extent all culturally creative
projects).
Your project must have an E.M. for how
BALL + BOX = BALLBOX
i.e. you have to show how with only standard knowledge of two objects, balls
& boxes, you can a) generate and/or b) understand a new, third object,
“ball-box” that is derived from them by non-standard means. In this case, a
BALLBOX is a box shaped like a ball rather than a cube.
(That is a more concrete way of saying: “you must be able to show how your
project can think outside the box”).
Another example would be, you must have an E.M. for how
CAT + DOG = CATOTAUR
a creature, similar to a minotaur, half cat, half dog.
Or, you must have an E.M. for how
2 + 2 = 5
again, your machine must from knowledge of standard maths be able to produce
non-standard maths. (And for the benefit of “same old, same old” Matt, that
does not mean googling an existing 2+2=5 “proof” – you have to
generate/understand an altogether new one).
Or, you must be able to show how
2 rocks + 2 rocks = 4 rocks.
You must be able to show how having knowledge of how two rocks are laid, you
can lay another two rocks on top of them. Laying rock walls is not a math
operation like laying brick walls – each rock is individually formed and needs
to be laid individually.
(Or your system must just be able to recognize/conceptualise ROCK, since all
rock forms are individual and non-standard).
In all of these cases, you combine two objects to produce a third object that
has never, to your knowledge, been derived from them before.
You do “magic” – you put a rabbit in an empty hat and pull out a bird. You
put a penis in a vagina and pull out a baby (“where did that come from?”)
It’s a waste of time to even ask Jim to produce an O.D., but anyone serious
about AGI will want to produce an O.D. with an E.M. -
an explanation of a BALL BOX.
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