On 5/11/07, Mike Tintner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I should add that part of the creative challenge of developing an integrational structure for AGI is to develop one that will allow CREATIVE minds to work together - and not just "hacks" a la Wikip. - and enable them to integrate whole sets of major new inventions and innovations.
Yes, for those of us taking "integrative" approaches to AGI design, that is one of the initial challenges faced in creating an AI architecture. I believe the Novamente design satisfies this requirement quite well. There are many interrelated key aspects here, e.g.: -- What kind of main memory structures do the different modules utilize -- What facilities are there for adding new, specialized memory structures -- What facilities are there for scheduling operations -- Coordination of different processes for moving stuff in and out of memory -- Distributed processing: coordinated use of multiple machines The Webmind design that I worked on before Novamente enabled easy and flexible integration of diverse AI modules, addressing all these issues ... but lacked adequate computational efficiency in terms of its use of memory and threading. Novamente does not have those problems. The main deficiencies we've had in Novamente regarding integration of diverse AI methods have actually been at the low-level API level: the prior API for the core system was too complex and sort of a pain to work with in spite of its excellent conceptual properties. It is now being re-vamped (without changing much of the underlying system, mostly just on the interface level). The other key point to be grokked is that you can't just throw a bunch of clever AI modules together and hope that the whole will come out more than the sum of the parts. Often as not, if you do this, the whole will come out LESS than the sum of the parts. The parts need to be combined with careful theoretical attention paid to the emergent effects that will arise from putting those particular parts together, in the context of a system operating in a particular environment. -- Ben G ----- 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/?member_id=231415&user_secret=fabd7936
