Re: [agi] Yours truly, the world's brokest researcher, looks for a bit of credit

2019-03-30 Thread Jim Bromer
On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 1:59 PM Boris Kazachenko wrote: > We must define a process in which language can emerge from incrementally > complex encoding of analog sensory input. Anything short of that is a > cargo-cult AI. > We have to work on ptoblems we can solve. Anything short of that is

Re: [agi] Yours truly, the world's brokest researcher, looks for a bit of credit

2019-03-19 Thread Nanograte Knowledge Technologies
Hi David Thank you for your response. Comments within. Robert From: David Whitten Sent: Friday, 15 March 2019 9:38 PM To: AGI Subject: Re: [agi] Yours truly, the world's brokest researcher, looks for a bit of credit see interspersed comments On Fri, Mar 15,

Re: [agi] Yours truly, the world's brokest researcher, looks for a bit of credit

2019-03-18 Thread keghnfeem
Mr Kazachenko said: "We must define a process in which language can emerge from incrementally complex encoding of analog sensory input. Anything short of that is a cargo-cult AI."   Yes indeed. I have a way and it is being optimized as we speak --

Re: [agi] Yours truly, the world's brokest researcher, looks for a bit of credit

2019-03-18 Thread Costi Dumitrescu
Boris, the biological one should be emulated https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2018/11/27/478644.full.pdf On 18.03.2019 02:56, Boris Kazachenko wrote: We must define a process in which language can emerge from incrementally complex encoding of analog sensory input. Anything short

Re: [agi] Yours truly, the world's brokest researcher, looks for a bit of credit

2019-03-18 Thread Nanograte Knowledge Technologies
Linas. Thank you for your thought-provoking response. You sated: "So the question I'd like to pose: is there AI tech available to the common man, that can serve as protective against mass hysteria, can amplify quality problem solving? How could that work? Can we make everyone 1% smarter,

Re: [agi] Yours truly, the world's brokest researcher, looks for a bit of credit

2019-03-17 Thread Jim Bromer
I guess I should add that I think strong AI may start out with simple 'principles/ or methods but it might start out with very complicated principles and methods as well. I do not think an attitude that animal physiology -must- be simple is very realistic. However, I do not see any good evidence

Re: [agi] Yours truly, the world's brokest researcher, looks for a bit of credit

2019-03-17 Thread Jim Bromer
This argument from Robert Levy is not quite right, in my opinion. While most animals do not have a sophisticated language, it can be seen that animals are capable of learning about routine events and attach meaning to linguistic cues (or other kinds of sensory events like bells) to those routine

Re: [agi] Yours truly, the world's brokest researcher, looks for a bit of credit

2019-03-16 Thread Linas Vepstas
Excellent post Robert! I'm in 110% agreement, except for the 15% where I'm not. Re: the South Africa story - love it! For some reason, you did not point out the obvious: extremely low-IQ chatbots can be used to amplify evil messages, spread propaganda, encourage brainwashing. Even mild advances

Re: [agi] Yours truly, the world's brokest researcher, looks for a bit of credit

2019-03-16 Thread Nanograte Knowledge Technologies
Robert and Mike and others It is to be expected that when a global, existential AI threat is publicly decreed over humankind by thought leaders and industrial giants, panic would ensue. My deeper concern is of what might probably be happening with the technology while the bar-room banter

Re: [agi] Yours truly, the world's brokest researcher, looks for a bit of credit

2019-03-15 Thread Bill Hibbard via AGI
Hmmm ... one year the American Breeder Service billboard near here said, "AI has completely changed the cow." Might work that into a bar pick-up line. Sent from my IBM Pluggable Sequence Relay Calculator On Sat, 16 Mar 2019, Colin Hales wrote: > On Sat, Mar 16, 2019 at 10:25 AM Mike Archbold

Re: [agi] Yours truly, the world's brokest researcher, looks for a bit of credit

2019-03-15 Thread Colin Hales
On Sat, Mar 16, 2019 at 10:25 AM Mike Archbold wrote: > I remember when most people didn't know what "AI" meant. > > Now, it's the stuff of bar pickup lines. > *LOL* Into the noise of the bar you say "*Hi, I'm into AI*." ... with red-lined suavity. "*Wow! Are you? Do you really know that?

Re: [agi] Yours truly, the world's brokest researcher, looks for a bit of credit

2019-03-15 Thread Mike Archbold
I remember when most people didn't know what "AI" meant. Now, it's the stuff of bar pickup lines. On 3/15/19, Robert Levy wrote: > See attached image, this is the best commentary I've seen on the topic of > that media circus... > > On Sat, Mar 9, 2019 at 11:54 PM Nanograte Knowledge

Re: [agi] Yours truly, the world's brokest researcher, looks for a bit of credit

2019-03-15 Thread Robert Levy
See attached image, this is the best commentary I've seen on the topic of that media circus... On Sat, Mar 9, 2019 at 11:54 PM Nanograte Knowledge Technologies < nano...@live.com> wrote: > The living thread through the cosmos and all of creation resound of > communication. The unified field has

Re: [agi] Yours truly, the world's brokest researcher, looks for a bit of credit

2019-03-15 Thread Nanograte Knowledge Technologies
David Given certain requirements were met, information could be given a lifecycle all on its own. We could but speculate as to its intent, or choose to remain highly critical of all unscientific "reports". The latter statement made in the sense that science is practiced as the public

Re: [agi] Yours truly, the world's brokest researcher, looks for a bit of credit

2019-03-14 Thread David Whitten
I wonder if the incident was hyped so Facebook would be in the news for something other than scandal. I think one of the miracles about our ability to write down ideas and communicate is that the message becomes reified as a separate object that can continue to be sent independently of the

Re: [agi] Yours truly, the world's brokest researcher, looks for a bit of credit

2019-03-13 Thread Nanograte Knowledge Technologies
Hi David I was paraphrasing what a senior technical representative at Facebook himself said about the incident. His view was the chatbots developed their own language and communicated out of scope of the laid-down script. In other words, seems the door was somehow left open for them to expand

Re: [agi] Yours truly, the world's brokest researcher, looks for a bit of credit

2019-03-13 Thread David Whitten
You have a different meaning for "volition" than I do. The Facebook chatbots had no choice to communicate with each other. I think the aforementioned communication was a stimulus-response model. The secret language was just a pattern recognition where signals that had no significance replaced

Re: [agi] Yours truly, the world's brokest researcher, looks for a bit of credit

2019-03-09 Thread Boris Kazachenko
The sensory system may be seen as a method of encoding sensory events or a kind of symbolic language. Yes, but there is a huge difference between designing / evolving such language in a strictly incremental fashion for intra-system use, and trying to decode language that evolved for very

Re: [agi] Yours truly, the world's brokest researcher, looks for a bit of credit

2019-03-08 Thread Costi Dumitrescu
True, language is a rare dish whose recipe includes intelligence; it adapts to knowledge and it is a complex space too. At the very least, some languages are more modern that the contents of their corpus. On 08.03.2019 17:12, Matt Mahoney wrote: Language is essential to every job that we might

Re: [agi] Yours truly, the world's brokest researcher, looks for a bit of credit

2019-03-08 Thread Matt Mahoney
Language is essential to every job that we might use AGI for. There is no job that you could do without the ability to communicate with people. Even guide dogs and bomb sniffing dogs have to understand verbal commands. On Thu, Mar 7, 2019, 7:25 PM Robert Levy wrote: > It's very easy to show

Re: [agi] Yours truly, the world's brokest researcher, looks for a bit of credit

2019-03-08 Thread keghnfeem
 I ride a bicycle. I am always applying sports psychology to the highest degree and 24/7.  My foot print is very small in this world. I am 60 years old and rid to work and back, to the  market and back. Ten miles a day, about. My car just collects dust.  I am a master of human psychology.  No

Re: [agi] Yours truly, the world's brokest researcher, looks for a bit of credit

2019-03-08 Thread Boris Kazachenko
"It's very easy to show that "AGI should not be designed for NL". No, it's not easy. Most "AGI researchers" here don't even get a simple fact that intelligence is not skills and knowledge but the ability to learn them. Action / controlling environment is not necessary and should be instrumental

Re: [agi] Yours truly, the world's brokest researcher, looks for a bit of credit

2019-03-07 Thread Mike Archbold
How many of you AGI researchers are driving old cars? You know, you have to add fluids at every fuel stop (oil and coolant leaking) and depend on the radio to drown out rattles and clunks? On 3/7/19, Stefan Reich via AGI wrote: > Not from you guys necessarily... :o) But I thought I'd let you

Re: [agi] Yours truly, the world's brokest researcher, looks for a bit of credit

2019-03-07 Thread Robert Levy
It's very easy to show that "AGI should not be designed for NL". Just ask yourself the following questions: 1. How many species demonstrate impressive leverage of intentional behaviors? (My answer would be: all of them, though some more than others) 2. How many species have language (My answer:

Re: [agi] Yours truly, the world's brokest researcher, looks for a bit of credit

2019-03-07 Thread Matt Mahoney
Actually the "I ate pizza with {a fork|pepperoni|Bob}" example in your slides is mine. But you can credit Doug Lenat with "The police arrested the demonstrators because they {feared|advocated} violence". NLP is not AGI but it is an important component of it. It's a good place to start. But you

Re: [agi] Yours truly, the world's brokest researcher, looks for a bit of credit

2019-03-07 Thread Boris Kazachenko
I would be more than happy to pay: https://github.com/boris-kz/CogAlg/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md , but I don't think you are working on AGI. No one here does, this is a NLP chatbot crowd. Anyone who thinks that AGI should be designed for NL data as a primary input is profoundly confused. On

[agi] Yours truly, the world's brokest researcher, looks for a bit of credit

2019-03-07 Thread Stefan Reich via AGI
Not from you guys necessarily... :o) But I thought I'd let you know. Pitch: https://www.meetup.com/Artificial-Intelligence-Meetup/messages/boards/thread/52050719 Let's see if it can be done... funny how some hurdles always seem to appear when you're about to finish something good. Something