I wrote down my thoughts on this in a little more detail here (with some pastings from these emails plus some new info):
http://multiverseaccordingtoben.blogspot.com/2008/12/subtle-structure-of-physical-world.html On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 12:23 AM, Ben Goertzel <b...@goertzel.org> wrote: > > >> Suppose I take the universal prior and condition it on some real-world >> training data. For example, if you're interested in real-world >> vision, take 1000 frames of real video, and then the proposed >> probability distribution is the portion of the universal prior that >> explains the real video. (I can mathematically define this if there >> is interest, but I'm guessing the other people here can too, so maybe >> we can skip that. Speak up if I'm being too unclear.) >> >> Do you think the result is different in an important way from the >> real-world probability distribution you're looking for? >> -- >> Tim Freeman http://www.fungible.com >> t...@fungible.com > > > No, I think that in principle that's the right approach ... but that > simple, artificial exercises like conditioning data on photos don't come > close to capturing the richness of statistical structure in the physical > universe ... or in the subsets of the physical universe that humans > typically deal with... > > ben > > -- Ben Goertzel, PhD CEO, Novamente LLC and Biomind LLC Director of Research, SIAI b...@goertzel.org "I intend to live forever, or die trying." -- Groucho Marx ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=123753653-47f84b Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
