Re: [agi] Philosophy of General Intelligence
Narrow AI : Stereotypical/ Patterned/ Rational Matt: Suppose you write a program that inputs jokes or cartoons and outputs whether or not they are funny AGI : Stereotype-/Pattern-breaking/Creative What you rebellin' against? Whatcha got? Marlon Brando. The Wild One (1953) On screen, he rebelled against the man; offscreen, he rebelled against the rebel stereotype imposed on him. --- 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=8660244id_secret=111637683-c8fa51 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
Re: [agi] Does prior knowledge/learning cause GAs to converge too fast on sub-optimal solutions?
2008/9/8 Benjamin Johnston [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Does this issue actually crop up in GA-based AGI work? If so, how did you get around it? If not, would you have any comments about what makes AGI special so that this doesn't happen? Does it also happen in humans? I'd say yes, therefore it might be a problem we can't avoid but only mitigate by having communities of intelligences sharing ideas so that they can shake each other out of their maxima assuming they settle in different ones (different search landscapes and priors help with this). The community might reach a maxima as well, but the world isn't constant so good ideas might always be good, changing the search landscapes, meaning a maxima my not be a maxima any longer. Will --- 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=8660244id_secret=111637683-c8fa51 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
[agi] any advice
I am applying for a research program and I have to chose between these two schools: Dalle Molle Institute of Artificial Intelligence University of Verona (Artificial Intelligence dept) --- 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=8660244id_secret=111637683-c8fa51 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
Re: [agi] any advice
Dalle Molle Institute of Artificial Intelligence University of Verona (Artificial Intelligence dept) If they were corporations, from which one would you buy shares? I would go for IDSIA. I mean, hey, you have Schmidhuber around. :) Jan --- 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=8660244id_secret=111637683-c8fa51 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
[agi] Artificial humor
A model of artificial humor, a machine that tells jokes, or at least inputs jokes and outputs whether or not they are funny. Identify associations of the form (A ~ B) and (B ~ C) in the audience language model where (A ~ C) is believed to be false or unlikely through other associations. Test whether the joke activates A, B, and C by association to induce the association (A ~ C). This approach differs from pattern recognition and machine learning techniques used in other text classification tasks such as spam detection or information retrieval: a joke is only funny the first time you hear it. That's because once you form the association (A ~ C), it is added to the language model and you no longer have the prerequisites for the joke. Example 1: Q. Why did the chicken cross the road? A. To get to the other side. (I know, not funny, but pretend you haven't heard it). We have: A ~ B: Chickens have legs and can walk. B ~ C: People walk across the road for a reason. A ~ C: Chickens have human-like motivations. Example 2 requires a longer associative chain: (A comment about Sarah Palin) A vice president who likes hunting. What could go wrong? It invokes the false conclusion: (Sarah Palin ~ hunting accident) by inductive reasoning: (Sarah Palin ~ vice president ~ Dick Cheney ~ hunting accident) and (Sarah Palin ~ hunting ~ hunting accident). Note that all of the preconditions must be present for the joke to work. For example, the joke would not be funny if told about Joe Biden (doesn't hunt), George W. Bush (not vice president), or if you were unaware of Dick Cheney's hunting accident or that he was vice president. In order for a language model to detect the joke as funny, it would have to know that you know all four of these facts and also know that you haven't heard the joke before. Humor detection obviously requires a sophisticated language model and knowledge of popular culture, current events, and what jokes have been told before. Since entertainment is a big sector of the economy, an AGI needs all human knowledge, not just knowledge that is work related. -- Matt Mahoney, [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- 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=8660244id_secret=111637683-c8fa51 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
Re: [agi] Artificial humor
Matt, Humor is dependent not on inductive reasoning by association, reversed or otherwise, but on the crossing of whole matrices/ spaces/ scripts .. and that good old AGI standby, domains. See Koestler esp. for how it's one version of all creativity - http://www.casbs.org/~turner/art/deacon_images/index.html Solve humor and you solve AGI. --- 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=8660244id_secret=111637683-c8fa51 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
[agi] OpenCogPrime tutorial tomorrow nightlll
The introductory OpenCogPrime tutorial will be tomorrow night... http://opencog.org/wiki/OpenCogPrime:TutorialSessions I'm flying home from California on the red-eye tonight so don't expect me to be fully lucid, but hey ;-) ben -- Ben Goertzel, PhD CEO, Novamente LLC and Biomind LLC Director of Research, SIAI [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome - Dr Samuel Johnson --- 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=8660244id_secret=111637683-c8fa51 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
