On 5/1/07, Peter Voss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Pei does research (great stuff, I might add). I personally think it a pity that his approach is not part of any development project.
Peter: thanks for the comment, though I do consider myself as doing development all the time --- as proof of concept, rather than as commercial product, of course. I fully agree that when developing a commercial product, you must address certain practical problem.
My company, a2i2, spent many years in a research phase. Two years ago we transitioned into a development company. We obviously still do research, but it is now targeted at specific sub-problems, our overall AGI theory is in place. Lastly, in theory you could come up with a complete AGI design that was quite agnostic about specific applications; plug in senses and actuators and train the system (and/ or let in learn from its environment). Practically, such an open-ended approach will suffer far too many inefficiencies, and is unnecessarily hard. You really want the crucial feedback of practical performance (or non-performance, as the case may be) to help guide any R&D.
I see your point. AGI is a hard problem, and each research project must start from some place which is both important and manageable. Different approaches have chosen to start from different places, which is good for the field as a whole. Now it is too early to say which one will work, though each of us has personal beliefs supporting a certain priority order of tasks. Pei
Peter Voss -----Original Message----- Subject: Re: [agi] The role of incertainty On 5/1/07, Mike Tintner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Define the type of problems it addresses which might be [for all I know] > *understanding and precis-ing a set of newspaper stories .... Pei Wang replied: >If one of the above problem is solved by an AGI system, it should be >the result of learning of the system, rather than an innate capability >built into the system. ... ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?&;
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