On 30.07.2013, at 02:18, Jim Bromer <[email protected]> wrote: > I am interested in discussing AGI, not because I have it all figured out, but > because I don't. > > You started to say: "Simple learning, statistics transcending..."
Yes, but as a public forum, in addition to its entertainment and social value, it obliges us to uphold high standards of work and homework, and it is doubtful the most frequent posters have been keeping these high standards. And those few here who have simple solutions and simple refutations would be better off delivering them but not too often, obviously repetition after a point is not a virtue, rather a low standard. Now, can I "see" a mind without statistics (or equivalent generative code)? No, at least not until someone provides a deep and surprising explication of the normal distribution. Even if you start life with a statistics-free mind and just go out looking for resources, let's say looking for apples on apple trees, or water in water holes, you will stumble upon the normal distribution, first you walk into a couple of apple trees here and there, then into a cluster, you reach a plateau and then decline again. What could be simpler! It should come right after me Tarzan, you Jane! It is telling how indispensable random number generators are in most kinds of scientific code. I have previously remarked that unpredictability is probably a desirable feature in complex cognitive and social systems, while someone here kind of missed the point and replied that unpredictability is merely the result of complexity. Now, we do have a substantial statistical toolbox that we have not really deployed towards AGI, the main reason being its difficulty capturing generative, recursive, self-similar models: the reason the word "models" appears in these two specific locations in this paragraph is not to be explained by a Gaussian mix or any other probabilistic tool, it is all grammar and syntax. Bring it on! AT ------------------------------------------- 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
