----- Original Message ---- From: Matt Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I don't claim that compression is simple. It is not. Text compression is AI-complete. The general problem is not even computable. ...I claim that compression can be used to measure intelligence. I explain in more detail at http://cs.fit.edu/~mmahoney/compression/rationale.html -- Matt Mahoney, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------- It will take me a while to read your paper. However, I want to say that I am skeptical that you would be able to use compression to even measure intelligence. I do think it might be worthwhile to come up with basic elements of intelligence, and these could include correlations of productive output from different algorithms or something like that. But, from there you have to continue to build the system. It would be necessary to show how those elements can be combined to produce higher (or better) intelligence, and the Shannon/Hutter enthusiasts (along with everyone else) simply have not done this. (I think the contemporary advancements in AI are probably due to faster memory access and parallelism as much as any achievement in AI software.) But this means that you are advancing a purely speculative theory without any evidence to support it. Right now I am working on my own religious journey (but mine is seriously religious interestingly enough) writing a polynomial time SAT program. Now let's say that this SAT theory actually worked and was followed by a theory that showed that it could be used both to advance AI and to compress data. You might have a -I told you so- moment. But I might then have a -so what- moment. (I say that in a competitive but cordial way.) Of course intelligence will involve some kind of compression method! But so what? It will also involve some kind of speculative method. Does that mean that we can use speculation to 'measure' intelligence? Well, sure. Someone might be able to devise a psychometric measure of speculative potential or something like that. But this does not translate into an objective measure of intelligence until it is compared with thousands of subjects and integrated into a system that indicates that this particular measure of speculative potential can be correlated with other measures of intelligence and achievement. Sometimes a compression algorithm is just a compression algorithm. Jim Bromer ------------------------------------------- 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=103754539-40ed26 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
