On 10/3/07, Matt Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snipped parts of post agreed with]
> I think with a better understanding of this algorithm, that a visual > perception knowledge base can be trained in a hierarchical manner, building > from simple visual patterns to more abstract concepts. Just not on a PC. And it might be possible to demonstrate the algorithm doing minor things on a PC, and thereby get funding to run it on more powerful hardware. (Or by the time you have the algorithm working, a PC might be powerful enough to do the job!) Working with limited hardware is a handicap because of the things it can't do; but it's a deeper and longer-term handicap when it trains us into flinching away from considering those things, so that the limits of the hardware we had at one time, become the permanent limits of our minds - the history of AI is full of this, alas. It's important to actively counter this tendency by aiming high. In other words, program on the assumption you'll be running on a Blue Gene. By the time your program is working, maybe you will :) ----- 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=8660244&id_secret=49528881-21d4be
