--- Charles D Hixson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Stephen Reed wrote: > > ... > > Rather than cash payments I have in mind a scheme > > similar to the pre-world wide web bulletin board > > system in which FTP sites had upload and download > > ratios. If you wished to benefit from the site by > > downloading, you had to maintain a certain level > of > > contributions via file uploads. Analogously, if > one > > seeks to benefit from using a freely available > > internet-based distributed AGI, then one should > > contribute to it, either by donating some compute > > cycles, or by spending some time to tutor it. > > > > Cheers. > > -Steve > > > But please don't block out people behind a NAT > firewall. I can't fairly > download via bittorrent because it won't upload > through NAT. Sorry, I mentioned upload/download ratios as an analogy, not literally the same manner of operation. What I plan is at first a chat based system, using firewall-friendly Jabber, which will attempt to covert human discourse into propositions, and use the same grammar for generating responses. This is currently an unsolved AI problem. My first iteration will be a system that seeks to intelligently improve its communication abilities via lexicon acquisition. Rather than solve the up-to-now unsolved problem, I will employ the pr oven technique of a controlled natural language, and guide the user to the sorts of sentences that the system can understand. So in this context I mean that the user does not actually upload any files, but rather the user should teach the system something in return for the system performing some action or activity on the user's behalf. Existing information-gathering projects such as OpenMind demonstrate the scalability of this approach. In contrast to the Cyc knowledge base which has a focus on commonsense facts and rules, my system will focus on recursive self-improvement, learning useful behavior in a friendly fashion. -Steve __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
