I think this would be a very interesting problem to work on. But it
seems to me to implement what the article is talking about would require
changes to the internet protocol, which of course would be a long and
tortuous process. And without knowing what changes to IP will be
approved, we can't know what data NuPIC would have available for analysis.
It's a chicken and egg problem. You have to iterate through a process of
IP and routing software changes in order to test improvement proposals.
And at the end of your iterations, you have both the necessary IP
changes as well as the routing software. NuPIC could be used within the
iterations i suppose, but there's still a lot of old-fashioned hard work
to do.
On 9/8/2014 1:24 PM, Matthew Taylor wrote:
Rik has a great point here (and a nice article). If someone can figure
out how to use NuPIC to solve this problem, we'd be the darlings of
the internet (for a short period of time).
Is anyone else thinking along these lines?
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Matt Taylor
OS Community Flag-Bearer
Numenta
On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 10:34 PM, Rik <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Everyone
If you're not thinking hard about how to put machine intelligence
to work in computer networking, then you're doing the wrong thing.
Leave your robots and other anthropocentric toy projects aside and
work on stuff that matters!
Some good pep talk:
http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/networks/why-the-internet-needs-cognitive-protocols
A good example how the 'motor' in 'sensory-motor integration' can
and should be taken to be more metaphorical rather than an actual
motor. The 'action' an intelligent agent on the network takes is
to send some data down a pipe. This may eventually result in a
motor action at the other end of the pipe but that's taken care
of, plenty of people are busy hooking up motors to the 'net
already. Who does the cognitive bit?
Cheers
Rik
