--- Mike Dougherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On 9/22/07, Matt Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > You understand that I am not proposing to solve AGI by using text
> compression.
> >  I am proposing to test AI using compression, as opposed to something like
> the
> > Turing test.  The reason I use compression is that the test is fast,
> > objective, and repeatable.  It is less expensive to maintain a compression
> > benchmark than a Loebner prize.
> 
> demo/discussion: http://www.seamcarving.com/
> try it: http://rsizr.com/
> 
> What are the implications of this for robot vision and memory?  I
> understand that this is not technically AGI.  It seems to me that this
> is approximating the kind of selective importance that we use to
> remember details about a scene.  This is narrow intelligence for
> preserving the apparent visual object in a picture, but I imagine
> there would be an analogous process for preserving other data implied
> by a scene.

It says a lot about the human visual perception system.  This is an extremely
lossy function.  Video contains only a few bits per second of useful
information.  The demo is able to remove a large amount of uncompressed image
data without changing the compressed representation in our brains by
exploiting only the lowest levels of the visual perception function.


-- Matt Mahoney, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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