Thanks!! This is very helpful guidance. 

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> 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,
> 
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> 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
>> 
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>> Chirag
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