[agi] Re: [singularity] MindForth Programming Journal (MFPJ) 2010 September 24

2010-09-24 Thread Chuck Esterbrook
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 7:05 AM, A. T. Murray wrote: > Fri.24.SEP.2010 -- Clamping Down on Stray Activations > > Yesterday we made sure to upload our 21sep10A.F MindForth AI > code so that we could start fresh today with 24sep10A.F code. > In the previous code we made some progress in the answerin

Re: [agi] Parsing theories

2007-05-22 Thread Chuck Esterbrook
On 5/22/07, J Storrs Hall, PhD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm not doing any active work on it at the moment, but my favorite approach has been Mark Jones' active production networks, which are one of those schemes that lies in the twilight between symbolic and connectionist. Like Copycat, it is b

[agi] Parsing theories

2007-05-21 Thread Chuck Esterbrook
Any opinions on Operator Grammar vs. Link Grammar? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operator_Grammar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_grammar Link Grammar seems to have spawned practical software, but Operator Grammar has some compelling ideas including coherent selection, information content and

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-25 Thread Chuck Esterbrook
On 3/25/07, rooftop8000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- Chuck Esterbrook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 3/24/07, YKY (Yan King Yin) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 3/25/07, rooftop8000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... > > > > I think

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-25 Thread Chuck Esterbrook
On 3/25/07, Bob Mottram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've seen heated arguments over computer languages on AI-related forums many times before, so I've no intention of pimping any particular language specifically for AGI development. Actually I think the state of the art in software creation at th

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-24 Thread Chuck Esterbrook
On 3/24/07, YKY (Yan King Yin) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/25/07, rooftop8000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > > I think Jey's comment is reasonable. It seems impractical to start a > > collaborative AI project without having an AGI design which specifies what > > modules are there and ho

Re: Environments and Languages for AGI [WAS Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda]

2007-03-24 Thread Chuck Esterbrook
On 3/24/07, rooftop8000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > one chooses a > decent option and gets on with it. > > -- Ben That's exactly the problem.. everyone just builds their own ideas and doesn't consider how their ideas and code could (later) be used by other people If Novamente reaches human li

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-24 Thread Chuck Esterbrook
On 3/24/07, David Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I appreciate your detailed response but I don't have time to respond to all your points right now. You can be assured that I will investigate your points in the coming days. I am not familiar with C# directly but have programmed extensively in

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-24 Thread Chuck Esterbrook
On 3/24/07, Tony Lofthouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Clarke wrote: > I have 18 points at www.rccconsulting.com/aihal.htm and an explanation for > each one. Prove to me that this list of features can all be accommodated > by > any existing computer language and I will stop my developmen

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-24 Thread Chuck Esterbrook
On 3/24/07, Ben Goertzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: One thing that's nice about LISP --- at first glance -- is that it looks like it can be a language for both AGI content and AGI framework. But I believe this is somewhat deceptive. In principle LISP could be OK for AGI framework (though I'm no

Re: [agi] Why evolution? Why not neuroscience?

2007-03-23 Thread Chuck Esterbrook
It's cool that you posted the material here in case the site goes down and also for searching purposes (as in searching my mailbox or the archives), but I just wanted to point out that the original blog entry has some good links in it. In other words, some of the text is linked to related stories

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-22 Thread Chuck Esterbrook
ng at the same time and created tables of over 2M records. I have created arrays up to 10M elements. (size is limited to memory space) -- David Clark - Original Message - From: "Chuck Esterbrook" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 7:43 PM Subject: Re: [a

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-22 Thread Chuck Esterbrook
On 3/22/07, Charles D Hixson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Unfortunately, MS is claiming undefined things as being proprietary. As such, I intend to stay totally clear of implementations of "it's" protocols. Including mono. I am considering jvm, however, as Sun has now freed the java license (and

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-21 Thread Chuck Esterbrook
On 3/21/07, Shane Legg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 3/21/07, Chuck Esterbrook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sometimes the slowness of a program is not contained in a small > portion of a program. Sure. For us however this isn't the case. Cobra looks nice, very clea

Re: [agi] Fwd: Numenta Newsletter: March 20, 2007

2007-03-20 Thread Chuck Esterbrook
On 3/20/07, Ben Goertzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I would certainly expect that a mature Novamente system would be able to easily solve this kind of invariant recognition problem. However, just because a human toddler can solve this sort of problem easily, doesn't mean a "toddler" level AGI sh

[agi] Fwd: Numenta Newsletter: March 20, 2007

2007-03-20 Thread Chuck Esterbrook
"recognition ... irrespective of scale, distortion and noise" sounds pretty interesting. Are these capabilities outside of current NNs? I'm familiar with NNs ignoring noise, but not scale. But my NN investigations are several years old... I wonder if distortion includes any degree of rotation. I

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-20 Thread Chuck Esterbrook
On 3/20/07, Charles D Hixson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: rooftop8000 wrote: > ... > I think we should somehow allow people to use all the program languages they want. > That "somehow" is the big problem. Most approaches to dealing with it are...lamentable. > ... > You can use closed modules if y

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-20 Thread Chuck Esterbrook
On 3/20/07, Ben Goertzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Shane Legg wrote: > > Ben, I didn't know you were a Ruby fan... Cassio has gotten me into Ruby ... but in Novamente it's used only for prototyping, the real system is C++ For some non-AGI consulting projects we have also used Ruby. Ruby runs

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-20 Thread Chuck Esterbrook
On 3/20/07, Shane Legg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ben, I didn't know you were a Ruby fan... After working in C# with Peter I'd say that's is a pretty good choice. Sort of like Java but you can get closer to the metal where needed quite easily. For my project we are using Ruby and C. Almost al

[agi] The AGI Test

2007-03-13 Thread Chuck Esterbrook
There's a good chance this topic has been discussed before, so feel free to point the way if that's the case. It's certainly been touched on since I joined the list, but I wanted to break it out for its own sake of discussion. Background: There is a contest that implements the Turing Test for AI

Re: [agi] The "Reading Helvetica" Problem

2007-03-12 Thread Chuck Esterbrook
On 3/12/07, YKY (Yan King Yin) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The problem: 1. To be able to read many fonts 2. even totally new and strange-looking ones 3. even for the FIRST time one encounters a new, strange font; and 4. To be able to improve proficiency for a familiar font. The "NeoLego" or

Re: [agi] general weak ai

2007-03-09 Thread Chuck Esterbrook
On 3/9/07, Pei Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 3/9/07, Chuck Esterbrook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/6/07, Pei Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A more detailed discussion is in > > http://nars.wang.googlepages.com/wang.WhatAIShouldBe.pdf > > One

Re: [agi] general weak ai

2007-03-09 Thread Chuck Esterbrook
On 3/6/07, Pei Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: A more detailed discussion is in http://nars.wang.googlepages.com/wang.WhatAIShouldBe.pdf One can usually infer the approximate date of such a paper from the references, but not having a date still seems odd especially considering that these papers

Re: [agi] Do AGIs dream of electric sheep?

2007-02-26 Thread Chuck Esterbrook
On 2/25/07, Kevin Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2/26/07, Chuck Esterbrook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But wouldn't it be difficult to integrate the results of the > experimental copy back into the working copy which has since had new > experiences, memory fo

Re: [agi] Do AGIs dream of electric sheep?

2007-02-25 Thread Chuck Esterbrook
On 2/25/07, Ben Goertzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What about the AGIs that people are building or working towards, such > as those from Novamente, AdaptiveAI, Hall, etc.? Do/Will your systems > have "sleep periods" for internal maintenance and improvement? If so, > what types of activities do

[agi] Do AGIs dream of electric sheep?

2007-02-25 Thread Chuck Esterbrook
This is a light article about the purpose and value of sleep in humans: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/technology/technology.html?in_article_id=437683&in_page_id=1965 The article is nothing earth shattering, but it reminded me that I've thought for a long time that an AGI would li

Re: [agi] Interesting article

2007-02-22 Thread Chuck Esterbrook
Thanks, that was interesting stuff. Microsoft hosted a symposium on programming languages in 2006, which I attended. So if you like this kind of stuff, you might want to check out http://www.langnetsymposium.com/speakers.asp which includes presentations on Java, C#, Second Life, open source, and m

Re: [agi] Development Environments for AI (a few non-religious comments!)

2007-02-20 Thread Chuck Esterbrook
On 2/20/07, Richard Loosemore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... It helps to remember that my target users are cognitive scientists who want to be able to stay in a high-level thought mode (fancy way of saying that my users ain't gonna be hackers). Now I see why it would be a dev env, both from the

Re: [agi] The Missing Piece

2007-02-20 Thread Chuck Esterbrook
On 2/20/07, Richard Loosemore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... More generally, what you say about concepts being formed as a result of associations must be something like the truth but the real story is vastly more complex that just co-occurence => new concept. Even what we know today, from r

Re: [agi] The Missing Piece

2007-02-19 Thread Chuck Esterbrook
On 2/19/07, John Scanlon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Language is the manipulation of symbols. When you think of how a non-linguistic proto-human species first started using language, you can imagine creatures associating sounds with images -- "oog" is the big hairy red ape who's always trying to

Re: [agi] Development Environments for AI (a few non-religious comments!)

2007-02-19 Thread Chuck Esterbrook
On 2/19/07, Richard Loosemore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Wow, I leave off email for two days and a 55-message Religious War breaks out! ;-) I promise this is nothing to do with languages I do or do not like (i.e. it is non-religious...). As many people pointed out, programming language matters

Re: Languages for AGI [WAS Re: [agi] Priors and indefinite probabilities]

2007-02-18 Thread Chuck Esterbrook
On 2/18/07, Charles D Hixson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Chuck Esterbrook wrote: > On 2/18/07, Eliezer S. Yudkowsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Mark Waser wrote: >> >... > > I find C++ overly complex while simultaneously lacking well known > produ

Re: Languages for AGI [WAS Re: [agi] Priors and indefinite probabilities]

2007-02-18 Thread Chuck Esterbrook
On 2/18/07, Aki Iskandar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On another note, are you planning on an IDE for Cobra? Can you write an extension for VS.NET, or for WingWare's Wing IDE? How does one develop in Cobra? Now and in the future. Now: Your favorite text editor and invocation from the command l

Re: Languages for AGI [WAS Re: [agi] Priors and indefinite probabilities]

2007-02-18 Thread Chuck Esterbrook
On 2/18/07, Aki Iskandar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Enough said. I think we can all get along, and learn something from each other. Oh, yeah??? Prove it! LOL No, I'm totally kidding. I couldn't resist making that joke. :-) There are certainly a couple people on this list that take every com

Re: Languages for AGI [WAS Re: [agi] Priors and indefinite probabilities]

2007-02-18 Thread Chuck Esterbrook
On 2/18/07, Eliezer S. Yudkowsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Mark Waser wrote: > > Chuck is also absolutely incorrect that the only way to generate code by > code is to use Reflection.Emit. It is very easy to have your code write > code in any language to a file (either real or virtual), compile

Re: Languages for AGI [WAS Re: [agi] Priors and indefinite probabilities]

2007-02-18 Thread Chuck Esterbrook
On 2/18/07, Aki Iskandar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Chuck, I looked at Cobra yesterday, and I like it :-) Glad to hear that. :-) I will try to get some time and play with it. My love of Python, and reluctant admittance of appreciating .NET, are pointing me in the direction of using one of 3

Re: Languages for AGI [WAS Re: [agi] Priors and indefinite probabilities]

2007-02-18 Thread Chuck Esterbrook
On 2/18/07, Mark Waser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Chuck is also absolutely incorrect that the only way to generate code by code is to use Reflection.Emit. It is very easy to have your code write code in any language to a file (either real or virtual), compile it, and then load the resulting libr

Re: Languages for AGI [WAS Re: [agi] Priors and indefinite probabilities]

2007-02-17 Thread Chuck Esterbrook
On 2/17/07, Aki Iskandar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Richard, Danny, Pei, Chuck, Eugen, Peter ... thanks all for answering my question. ... C# is definitely a productive language, mainly due to the IDE, and it is faster than Java - however, it is strongly typed. Perhaps the disadvantage to C#, f

Re: Languages for AGI [WAS Re: [agi] Priors and indefinite probabilities]

2007-02-17 Thread Chuck Esterbrook
On 2/17/07, Richard Loosemore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It is not always true that C++ is used (I am building my own language and development environment to do it, for example), but if C++ is most common in projects overall, that probably reflects the facts that: ... Back in the old days, it w

Re: [agi] Project proposal: MindPixel 2

2007-01-18 Thread Chuck Esterbrook
On 1/18/07, Matt Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- "YKY (Yan King Yin)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not an academic (left uni a couple years ago) so I can't get academic > funding for this. If I can't start an AI business I'd have to entirely give > up AI as a career. I hope you can u

Re: [agi] Article: Brain power focused on future-tech quest

2007-01-15 Thread Chuck Esterbrook
tc) while [singularity] is for more general discussion on Singularity+AGI related issues: http://www.agiri.org/email Thus, this msnbc article would do better at [singularity]. Thanks! Bruce Chuck Esterbrook wrote: > http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16545946/ > > Btw is it useful to post relevant

[agi] Article: Brain power focused on future-tech quest

2007-01-15 Thread Chuck Esterbrook
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16545946/ Btw is it useful to post relevant articles on this list, or is everyone already on the Kurzweil newsletter and seeing this stuff anyway? Thanks, -Chuck - This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options,

Re: [agi] Project proposal: MindPixel 2

2007-01-13 Thread Chuck Esterbrook
On 1/13/07, Bob Mottram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Actually it doesn't matter what convention you use. You could simply have an entry box on the screen, with a prompt saying "please type a short statement that you believe to be either true or false". Some parsing can do the rest. To avoid get

Re: [agi] Project proposal: MindPixel 2

2007-01-13 Thread Chuck Esterbrook
On 1/13/07, YKY (Yan King Yin) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm considering this idea: build a repository of facts/rules in FOL (or Prolog) format, similar to Cyc's. For example "water is wet", "oil is slippery", etc. The repository is structureless, in the sense that it is just a collection of

Re: [agi] co-op search on "cognition and mind"

2006-10-31 Thread Chuck Esterbrook
On 10/31/06, Hartmut Prochaska <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I created a google co-op search on "cognition and mind" at the following adress: http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=012063233955606146991%3Adwsxidzld8s Thanks. I was poking around and saw in the list of featured co-op search sites

Re: [agi] Natural versus formal AI interface languages

2006-10-31 Thread Chuck Esterbrook
On 10/31/06, Matt Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I guess the AI problem is solved, then. I can already communicate with my computer using formal, unambiguous languages. It already does a lot of things better than most humans, like arithmetic, chess, memorizing long lists and recalling them