On 4/18/08, Stephen Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I agree with your side of the debate about whole KB not fitting into RAM. As > a solution, I propose to partition the whole KB into the tiniest possible > cached chunks, suitable for a single agent running on a host computer with > RAM resources of at least one GB. And I propose that AGI will consist not of > one program running on one computer, but a vast multitude of separately > hosted agents working in concert.
================ Disk access rate is ~10 times faster than ethernet access rate. IMO, if RAM is not enough the next thing to turn to should be the harddisk. Distributive AGI is a fascinating idea, but you have to solve a lot of algorithmic problems to make it work. If each agent has only a slice of the full KB, the average commonsense query would require cooperation among many agents. That's a very challenging algorithmic problem. I'm content to do simple, single-machine AGI. > > But my opinion of the OpenCyc concept coverage with respect to that of a > human five-year old differs greatly from yours. I concede that 200000 > OpenCyc facts are about the number a child might know, but in order to > properly ground these concepts, I believe that a much larger number of > feature vectors will have to be stored or available in abstracted form. For > example, there is the concept of the child's mother. Properly grounding that > one concept might require abstracting features from thousands of observations: ================= Yes, I actually agree with you -- I subconsciously tuned down my estimates as I was talking to Mark =) I think sensory processing is going to be a very hard problem, so we should postpone sensory grounding as late as possible, and instead focus on text. Don't forget that the AGI needs to have *episodic* memory as well. If we include that, secondary storage is certainly needed. YKY ------------------------------------------- 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=101455710-f059c4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
