Thanks for the info, Ben Ed Porter
-----Original Message----- From: Ben Goertzel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 10:38 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [agi] I know Selmer and his group pretty well... It is well done stuff, but it is purely hard-coded-knowledge-based logical inference -- there is no real learning there... It's not so hard to get impressive-looking functionality in toy demo tasks, by hard- coding rules and using a decent logic engine Others have failed at this, so his achievement is worthwhile and means his logic engine and formalism are better than most ... but still ... IMO, this is not a very likely path to AGI ... -- Ben On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 10:30 AM, Ed Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here is an article about RPI's attempt to pass a slightly modified version > of the turning test using supercomputers to power their "Rascals" AI > algorithm. > > http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206903246&pri > ntable=true > > The one thing I didn't understand was that they said their "Rascals" AI > algorithm used a theorem proving architectures. I would assume that that > would mean it as based on binary logic, and thus would not be sufficiently > flexible to model many human thought processes, which are almost certainly > more neural net-like, and thus much more probabilistic. > > Does anybody have any opinions on that. > > Ed Porter > > ------------------------------------------- > agi > Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ > Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > -- Ben Goertzel, PhD CEO, Novamente LLC and Biomind LLC Director of Research, SIAI [EMAIL PROTECTED] "If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms." -- Henry Miller ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?&; Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=95818715-a78a9b Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
