On 3/4/08, Vladimir Nesov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 9:50 PM, YKY (Yan King Yin)
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > I'm increasingly convinced that the human brain is not a statistical
> > learner, but a logical learner.  There are many examples of humans
learning
> > concepts/rules from one or two examples, rather than thousands of
examples.
> > So I think that at a high level, AGI should be logic-based.
> >
> > But it would be interesting to integrate NN-based techniques to
logic-based
> > AI, especially in vision.  (NN is also very weak at language
processing.)
> >
>
> One doesn't preclude another: if AGI can learn finite state machines
> statistically, it can then use them to carry out more 'logical' kinds
> of reasoning. Fast learning is also possible: it just takes a more
> similar state to evoke episodic memories than to evoke strong semantic
> memories.

Can you explain a bit more, your terms are too vague.  I think statistical
learning and logical learning are fundamentally quite different.  I'd be
interested in some hybrid approach, if it exists.

YKY

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