RE: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-24 Thread John Rose
PowerBuilder and Visual FoxPro. Everyone is entitled to their opinion but if Math wasn't required at all in all my career, I fail to see how it is necessary for the creation on an AGI or Building an AGI without math, I wonder what the design would look like. different creature. How much

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-24 Thread Russell Wallace
On 3/24/07, John Rose [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you could imagine a really, really super advanced language created by super-intelligent giant brained aliens (seriously) or created by their alien supercomputer, what would that language be like? Would it be a mishmash of lowest common

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-24 Thread Sampo Etelavuori
On 3/23/07, David Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - *From:* Shane Legg [EMAIL PROTECTED] *To:* agi@v2.listbox.com *Sent:* Friday, March 23, 2007 10:34 AM *Subject:* Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda On 3/23/07, David Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-24 Thread rooftop8000
--- David Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: rooftop8000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 1:48 PM Subject: Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda Suppose there was an AGI framework that everyone could add their

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-24 Thread Shane Legg
On 3/23/07, David Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Both the code and algorythmn must be good for any computer system to work and neither is easy. The bond formula was published for many years but this particular company certainly didn't have a copy of it inside a program they could use. The

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-24 Thread Ben Goertzel
If we're talking language for AGI _content_ (as opposed to framework for which Ben Goertzel has made a fair case for even C++), then more like removal of features. Because for AGI content, it's not what you can do in principle, it's what you can be _casual_ with. Correct, this is an

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-24 Thread Ben Goertzel
Is the research on AI full of Math because there are many Math professors that publish in the field or is the problem really Math related? Many PhDs in computer science are Math oriented exactly because the professors that deem their work worth a PhD are either

[agi] content language for AGI

2007-03-24 Thread Pei Wang
Ben, Can you post the current grammar of Combo? The one of Narsese is http://nars.wang.googlepages.com/NARS-Guide.html Other approaches are also welcome, as far as they are concrete enough for fruitful discussion. Pei On 3/24/07, Ben Goertzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In fact our content

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-24 Thread David Clark
I don't deny that you also might have extensive experience but you were the one to use inflammatory language. 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

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-24 Thread David Clark
- Original Message - From: Sampo Etelavuori To: agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2007 3:13 AM Subject: Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda Well, do you agree that making predictions is one central aspect of intelligence? The brain does it all the time to

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-24 Thread David Clark
- Original Message - From: rooftop8000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2007 4:26 AM Subject: Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda -so it will need to have different parts that can be developed (and run?) independently. An AGI would be huge.

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-24 Thread David Clark
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 C++ for many years. C itself is not OO and nor is

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-24 Thread Ben Goertzel
The fact that C, C++ and I would presume C# has pointers, precludes any of these from my list up front. There can be no boundary checks at either compile or execution time so this feature alone is incompatible with a higher level language IMO. FYI, C# has no pointers generically, but you

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-24 Thread David Clark
I'm afraid that prefix notion, huge numbers of round brackets and program structure looking like normal code is not helpful to me. I want a system that is simple/readable and allows me to concentrate of the project instead of the code. LISP is not the only language I have used where program

RE: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-24 Thread John Rose
I'm coming from years of computer telephony work and mostly the languages that I've worked with include c++, Delphi(Pascal), Java, C#, VB. lately lots of C# on Windows. What I've seen repeatedly is the features of the languages, mostly the non-c++ languages where feature utilization is saturated.

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-24 Thread YKY (Yan King Yin)
On 3/23/07, rooftop8000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Suppose there was an AGI framework that everyone could add their ideas to.. What properties should it have? I listed some points below. What would it take for you to use the framework? You can add points if you like. On 3/24/07, Jey

RE: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-24 Thread Tony Lofthouse
David, the short is answer is yes to ALL your points below. For those who are actually interested the details are below: David Clarke 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

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-24 Thread rooftop8000
--- YKY (Yan King Yin) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/23/07, rooftop8000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Suppose there was an AGI framework that everyone could add their ideas to.. What properties should it have? I listed some points below. What would it take for you to use the

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-24 Thread David Clark
For anyone who might be interested, all program, classes, objects etc reside in a single operating system file. Only a simple config file resides outside this one file and it is used at startup only. The overhead of 1000's of classes and 10,000's of objects made me decide to make access to any

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-24 Thread David Clark
- Original Message - From: Tony Lofthouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2007 10:19 AM Subject: RE: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda ThatÂ’s a neat trick. So on a four processor box you can take control of the processors and the OS and run your

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

2007-03-24 Thread Richard Loosemore
Ben Goertzel wrote: Mark Waser wrote: IMO, creating an AGI isn't really a programming problem. The hard part is knowing exactly what to program. Which is why it turns into a programming problem . . . . I started out as a biochemist studying enzyme kinetics. The only reasonable way

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

2007-03-24 Thread Ben Goertzel
As for all the other talk on this list, recently, about programming languages and the need for math, etc., I find myself amused by the irrelevance of most of it: when someone gets a clue about what they are trying to build, and why, the question of what language (or environment) they

RE: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-24 Thread John Rose
I don't know math too well, not an expert, just what I picked up on forays into AGI design. But I see an AGI (a simplified view) as being a kind of morphism processor and database. Taking inputs from the world, detecting and storing morphisms from the data streams, post processing the morphisms,

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

2007-03-24 Thread rooftop8000
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

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 like,

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

2007-03-24 Thread Richard Loosemore
Ben Goertzel wrote: Richard Loosemore wrote: As for all the other talk on this list, recently, about programming languages and the need for math, etc., I find myself amused by the irrelevance of most of it: when someone gets a clue about what they are trying to build, and why, the question

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

2007-03-24 Thread Ben Goertzel
Richard Loosemore wrote: Ben Goertzel wrote: Richard Loosemore wrote: As for all the other talk on this list, recently, about programming languages and the need for math, etc., I find myself amused by the irrelevance of most of it: when someone gets a clue about what they are trying to

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

2007-03-24 Thread Ben Goertzel
rooftop8000 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 I'm not at all sure something like AGI is well-suited to

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-24 Thread YKY (Yan King Yin)
On 3/25/07, rooftop8000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The richer your set of algorithms and representations, the more likely the correct ones will emerge/pop out as you put it. I don't really like the idea of hoping for extra functionality to emerge. This particular version of emergence does not