Re: [agi] Judea Pearl on AGI

2018-09-16 Thread EdFromNH via AGI
On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 2:59 PM Jim Bromer via AGI wrote: > Each game could be reduced to a conveniently > finite number of reactions and principles. So if someone wanted to waste his time he could create a simple physics-like modelling program > that could learn to play the games. The

Re: [agi] Judea Pearl on AGI

2018-09-14 Thread Jim Bromer via AGI
not so? >> >> >> ____ >> From: Robert Levy via AGI >> Sent: Thursday, 13 September 2018 10:08 PM >> To: AGI >> Subject: [agi] Judea Pearl on AGI >> >> I don't think I've seen a discussion on this mailing list y

Re: [agi] Judea Pearl on AGI

2018-09-14 Thread Nanograte Knowledge Technologies via AGI
@agi.topicbox.com Subject: Re: [agi] Judea Pearl on AGI If Demis Hassabis, the current leader of Google's DeepMind AI subsidiary, was able several years ago to create an artificially intelligent program that could learn to play each of many different video games much better than human players -- just from

Re: [agi] Judea Pearl on AGI

2018-09-13 Thread EdFromNH via AGI
- > *From:* Robert Levy via AGI > *Sent:* Thursday, 13 September 2018 10:08 PM > *To:* AGI > *Subject:* [agi] Judea Pearl on AGI > > I don't think I've seen a discussion on this mailing list yet about > Pearl's hypothesis that causal inference is the key to AGI. His > breakt

Re: [agi] Judea Pearl on AGI

2018-09-13 Thread Nanograte Knowledge Technologies via AGI
rectly causing C, but it was already inferred that A directly caused C. Did it, or didn't it? This would present as a self-made paradox, not so? From: Robert Levy via AGI Sent: Thursday, 13 September 2018 10:08 PM To: AGI Subject: [agi] Judea Pearl on AGI I don't

[agi] Judea Pearl on AGI

2018-09-13 Thread Robert Levy via AGI
I don't think I've seen a discussion on this mailing list yet about Pearl's hypothesis that causal inference is the key to AGI. His breakthroughs on causation have been in use for almost 2 decades. The new Book of Why, other than being the most accessible presentation of these ideas to a broader