Thanks!! This is very helpful guidance. Sent from my iPhone
> On Feb 14, 2014, at 1:08 AM, Matthew Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Chirag, > > I think a lot of us look forward to a future with truly intelligent machines. > Perhaps they'll beat us at basketball, perhaps not ;). But the truth is that > we're a long way from that at this point. NuPIC, for example, is currently > only modeling a very small sliver of one layer of the neocortex. As we build > up this technology, the future holds very interesting developments for us. > Also, as we understand more about how the brains works, it opens up more an > more doors for us to reverse engineer it into software. It will be an > interesting place here on Earth in another 20 years. > > At our first hackathon, we had a hacker teach NuPIC how to plan a game of > tic-tac-toe (http://numenta.org/blog/2013/06/25/hackathon-outcome.html#tom). > So we are all thinking along similar lines. > > We're definitely looking for a compelling sample application for NuPIC to > showcase its capabilities, so I suggest you read through our mailing list > archive and our hackathon reports to see if you can learn more about what > NuPIC can currently do. Let us know if you have any ideas for an interesting > app we can build as a sample to draw in more contributors. That would be the > best place you could help at this point. > > Searchable mailing list archives: http://nupic.markmail.org/ > Last hackathon: > http://numenta.org/blog/2013/11/06/2013-fall-hackathon-outcome.html > > Thanks for your thoughts, > > --------- > Matt Taylor > OS Community Flag-Bearer > Numenta > > >> On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 6:36 PM, Chirag <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi Everyone, >> My name is Chirag. I joined this group recently and am actually quite >> excited about it. I think this is absolutely the right approach to >> developing AI. My primary profession is another field but I am pretty >> certain that AI will change the future. So I feel that by joining and >> contributing to this group is the best thing I can do for myself (fairly >> selfish view of life, I know). Given other obligations, I have limited time >> to contribute fully right now but I think I can contribute via my >> imagination and questions of what AI products could or should be created in >> the future. Below our some questions I have. Please let me know if I am >> thinking about the end game of true artificial intelligence correctly or am >> I selling AI short and there is more it will be able to do. >> >> Thinking part: >> When I immigrated to US as a youth, I had to learn a lot of different >> thing. I learned to speak English, pass school, play basketball and to buy >> appropriately styled clothes in the new culture(aka baggy pant etc). As a >> youth, I picked all these things up very quickly and my teacher said that I >> was smart to be able to pick up all cultural and academic knowledge in such >> a short-time. I think fear of not fitting in forced me to learn these things >> in a very short amount of time. But in any case, I was able to fool the >> world so to speak by imitating mostly. So for me one mark of intelligence is >> ability to learn anything/everything (via imitation/practice) out of fear of >> not fitting in. I am pretty certain AI products in future will contain these >> criterias of "What is not fitting in". I can delve into that later. >> >> Questioning part: >> So I think the question I have is >> >> Can the intelligent learning algorithms be used to learn anything? >> >> I think the simplest test can be >> can it learn to play Tic/Tac/Toe on its own (via trial/error/prediction)? >> and then can it play against me or a simulated computer? >> can it learn to play any given video game for that matter? >> Particularly, >> Can it learn how to play need for speed or any racing games? >> >> Product part: >> If our AI algorithms can learn to play video games (via >> trial/error/predictions), it can likely play the games in physical world too. >> >> Can the learning algorithm learn to drive a car (it's a game really, with >> fitting in criteria)? >> If it's figured out how to drive a car, can it pick me up at a given >> location at a given time? >> Can it learn to ride a bike? >> Can it learn to use a scateboard to get around? >> >> My favorite AI product of the future: >> A self learning robot which has figured how to play basketball. It can play >> against you or with you as part of a team (in real life). I am pretty >> certain this is the future we're headed towards at least of Artificially >> intelligent gaming. >> >> >> >> Best Rgds, >> Chirag >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Chirag >> >> _______________________________________________ >> nupic mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.numenta.org/mailman/listinfo/nupic_lists.numenta.org > > _______________________________________________ > nupic mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.numenta.org/mailman/listinfo/nupic_lists.numenta.org
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