Heh... I guess it'd also be a lot easier to get rid of some of your
fancy algorithms and complex math and stuff, and you could quickly use
your computer to build a rapid adding machine... ;)
Imagine the possibilities!
D.
Ben Goertzel wrote:
Of course there is no way to get rid of recursion, that's very silly!!!
In the language of Gregory Bateson (see his book "Mind and Nature"),
you're suggesting to do away with "learning how to learn" --- which is
not at all a workable idea for AGI.
-- Ben
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of *Yan King Yin
*Sent:* Thursday, September 08, 2005 7:20 PM
*To:* [email protected]
*Subject:* Re: [agi] Representing Thoughts
Regarding "how to select the appropriate reasoning rules to
apply" --- in Novamente this occurs on two levels:
1) some simple heuristics applied as a default
2) based on probabilistic rules that are learned based on
experience (via the system's experience carrying out reasoning)
Note that there is some recursiveness here, because these
probabilistic rules regarding which inference rules to apply
in which context, may also be learned via INFERENCE. But this
leads potentially to an infinite-depth recursion of inference
guided by rules learned by inference guided by rules learned
by inference ... which is why one needs some simple heuristics
at the bottom to end the recursion after a finite number of
steps.
What if we allow the easy generation of rules (via inductive
generalization) so that there will be a lot of rules, but entirely
do away with recursion (ie rules will not further modify other
rules)? That seems to simply things a lot. Unless you can show a
case where a rule can only be derived from recursion but not
directly from generalization of experience.
IMO We should keep the design of AGI to its bare minimum.
yky
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