Cassimatis's system is an interesting research system ... it doesn't yet have lotsa demonstrated practical functionality, if that's what you mean by "work"...
He wants to take a bunch of disparately-functioning agents, and hook them together into a common framework using a common logical interlingua I think this approach is unlikely to lead to the various agents involved quelling, rather than exacerbating, each others' intrinsic combinatorial explosions... I think it is unlikely to lead to sufficiently coherent system-wide emergent dynamics to give rise to an effective "phenomenal self" ... But given the primitive state of AGI theory at the moment, I can't *prove* that these complaints are correct, of course... -- Ben G On Nov 25, 2007 7:22 PM, Edward Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > A few days ago there was some discussion on this list about the potential > usefulness of narrow AI to AGI. > > > > Nick Cassimatis, who is speaking at AGI 2008, has something he calls > Polyscheme which is described partially at the following AGIRI link: > http://www.agiri.org/workshop/Cassimatis.ppt > > > > It appears to use what are arguably narrow AI modules in a coordinated > manner to achieve AGI. > > > > Is this a correct interpretation? Does it work? And, if so, how? > > > > I can imagine how multiple narrow AI's could be used to create a more > general AGI if there were some AGI glue to represent and learn the > relationships between the different AGI modalities. Cassimatis mentions > tying these different modalities together using relations involving "times, > space, events, identity, causality and belief." (But I don't remember much > description of how it does it.) > > > > Arguably these are enough dimensions to create generalized representations, > provided there is some generalized means for representing all the important > states and representations in each of the Narrow AI modalities and the > relationships between them in each of these dimensions and compositions and > generalizations formed from such relationships. > > > > Is that what Cassimatis is talking about? > > > > Ed Porter ________________________________ > 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/?&; ----- 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=68488723-9c2917
