Ben Goertzel wrote: > Suppose you have a large set of people, say, all the people on Earth > > Then you have a bunch of categories you're interested in, say:
... > The problem at hand is, you're given some absolute and > some conditional probabilities regarding the concepts > at hand, and you want to infer a bunch of others. Hmm. The think I find interesting here is that humans don't have a good solution to this problem. Give a typical human a set of data like the above, and he'll just give you a blank look. Give him a specific problem and he'll do some first-order inference (i.e. Fluffy is more likely to be a cat's name than a dog's), but we rarely take it more than one step. Also, it seems to me that humans usually only look for the specific data required by a problem, rather than trying to figure out all the logical consequences of a set of data. This does not, of course, mean that you should give Novamente the ability to solve this kind of problem. But it does hint that what you're building is a different kind of mind than what humans have... Billy Brown ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?[EMAIL PROTECTED]
