On Tuesday 12 June 2007 12:49:12 pm Derek Zahn wrote: > Often I see AGI types referring to physical embodiment as a costly sideshow or as something that would be nice if a team of roboticists were available. But really, a simple robot is trivial to build, and even a camera on a pan/tilt base pointed at an interesting physical location is way easier to build than a detailed simulation world.
Hear, hear. It took me two days to build two successive versions of Tommy complete with dual Firewire cameras. Right now I'm grovelling thru swamps of low-level software, but that's because I'm trying to use a GPGPU on one machine and 8-way SMP on another and have them work together :-) > The next objection is that "image processing" is too expensive and difficult. I guess my only thought about that it doesn't inspire confidence in an approach if the very first layer of neural processing is too hard. I suspect the real issue is that even if you do the "image processing", then what? What do you do with the output? In my approach there isn't a boundary -- the same basic algorithms get used for image segmentation and concept formation. One can make things as different as one likes by optimizing for common cases/dimensionalities, but I'm nowhere near far enough along to worry about that. "Premature optimization is the root of all evil." Josh ----- 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=e9e40a7e
