om The most pressing issue in my own AGI research, as lackadaisical and informal as it is, is how the imagination (which is the same thing as perception) actually works. Solving this might just bring down the walls of Jericho here. Oops! I just said something really important as an aside.
Imagination == perception. !!!!!! Perception == imagination. !!!!!! Any AGI system that claims to have one but not the other is almost certainly a fraud. =| The most practical of the questions one could ask about this is how it works. In the most general sense, the imagination creates the perception of either real or, well, imagined subjects. We know that it works well enough for vision that it can prime the visual systems for the apearance of the actual stimuli that, on short timescales, tiny variations from the expected input can be detected immediately. Yet, even still this appears to be far beyond the capabilities of any conventional approach to computer graphics. Conventional rasterization does not seem to capture the subtlties of the world and is much too "hacky" a solution. Raytracing is much more elegant but is not neurologically plausible. What we seem to be seeing is a system involving composition of *cough* patterns that is crudely similar to what you get when you run a neural network forwards (typically neural network systems are run ass-backwards because that's more intuitive to ppl with letters after their names). The most similar system that I am aware of is the fourier transform, which is where I've picked up my trail of breadcrumbs. This seems to be a promising approach because there is strong neurological evidence that the brain performs a frequency domain analysis on hearing, and the same principle probably applies, to some extent, to other senses too. Anyway, Anyone who's not a Kerbal Space Program obsessed dunce like me can probably run off now and figure out how to tie a FFT-like system into something that can manipulate abstraction heirarchies and then go and collect the $10 billion for inventing AGI.... Incremental to that goal is the project of developing rendering systems that work like the imagination does, using frequency composition instead of rasterization or raytracing... -- IQ is a measure of how stupid you feel. Powers are not rights. ------------------------------------------- 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
