Re: [agi] Goal Driven Systems and AI Dangers [WAS Re: Singularity Outcomes...]

2008-05-27 Thread J Storrs Hall, PhD
On Monday 26 May 2008 09:55:14 am, Mark Waser wrote: Josh, Thank you very much for the pointers (and replying so rapidly). You're welcome -- but also lucky; I read/reply to this list a bit sporadically in general. You're very right that people misinterpret and over-extrapolate econ

Re: [agi] More Info Please

2008-05-27 Thread BillK
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 2:20 PM, Mark Waser wrote: Geez. What the heck is wrong with you people and your seriously bogus stats? Try a real recognized neutral tracking service like Netcraft (http://news.netcraft.com/archives/web_server_survey.html) Does anyone believe that they are biased

RE: [agi] More Info Please

2008-05-27 Thread John G. Rose
This doesn't distinguish Apache on Windows like in WAMP vs. LAMP but that is probably a small percentage. Uhm I've noticed with C# is that you hit some performance and resource issues when the app gets big. But that is the tradeoff I guess and it is workaroundable. Also VS2008 is buggy. It's

Re: [agi] Goal Driven Systems and AI Dangers [WAS Re: Singularity Outcomes...]

2008-05-27 Thread Mark Waser
And again, *thank you* for a great pointer! - Original Message - From: J Storrs Hall, PhD [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 8:04 AM Subject: Re: [agi] Goal Driven Systems and AI Dangers [WAS Re: Singularity Outcomes...] On Monday 26 May 2008

RE: [agi] More Info Please

2008-05-27 Thread Derek Zahn
Mark Waser: Does anybody have any interest in and/or willingness to program in a different environment? I haven't decided to what extent I'll participate in OpenCog myself yet. For me, it depends more on whether the capabilities of the system seem worth exploring, which in turn depends as

Re: [agi] More Info Please

2008-05-27 Thread Mark Waser
This company attempts to survey web *servers* only (Note: Total is about 5% of Netcraft total) No. You are not correct. Read their methodology (http://www.securityspace.com/s_survey/faq.html?mondir=/200804domdir=domain=) which I have copied and pasted below We visit what we consider

Re: [agi] More Info Please

2008-05-27 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
On May 27, 2008, at 7:00 AM, BillK wrote: As I understand it, Netcraft's results are based on web sites, or more precisely, hostnames, rather than actual web servers. This introduces a bias because some servers run a large number of low-volume (or zero volume) web sites. Of course, many

Re: [agi] More Info Please

2008-05-27 Thread BillK
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 3:53 PM, Mark Waser wrote: No. You are not correct. Read their methodology (http://www.securityspace.com/s_survey/faq.html?mondir=/200804domdir=domain=) which I have copied and pasted below We visit what we consider well-known sites. In our case, we define a

Re: [agi] Design Phase Announce - VRRM project

2008-05-27 Thread Steve Richfield
William, This sounds like you should be announcing the analysis phase! Detailed comments follow... On 5/26/08, William Pearson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: VRRM - Virtual Reinforcement Resource Managing Machine Overview This is a virtual machine designed to allow non-catastrophic

[agi] Re: Merging - or: Multiplicity

2008-05-27 Thread Mike Tintner
Steve:Presuming that you do NOT want to store all of history and repeatedly analyze all of it as your future AGI operates, you must accept MULTIPLE potentially-useful paradigms, adding new ones and trashing old ones as more information comes in. Our own very personal ideas of learning and

RE: [agi] More Info Please

2008-05-27 Thread Mark Waser
Hi Derek, Thank you for the thoughtful response . . . . There are a number of things that I'm very interested in within the OpenCog umbrella (starting with a lot of the hypergraph stuff and the optimized indexes that Ben has always been talking about but unwilling/unable to share)

Re: [agi] Re: Merging - or: Multiplicity

2008-05-27 Thread William Pearson
2008/5/27 Mike Tintner [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Actually, that's an absurdity. The whole story of evolution tells us that the problems of living in this world for any species of creature/intelligence at any level can only be solved by a SOCIETY of individuals. This whole dimension seems to be

Re: Merging threads was Re: Code generation was Re: [agi] More Info Please

2008-05-27 Thread Stephen Reed
Steve Richfield said: A useful AGImust be able to rise above its own orders to be able to eliminate problems rather than destroying them! I agree that an AGI, to be friendly, must not blindly obey a human user. I would rather have it act according to humanity's collective volition as

Re: [agi] Computer Vision May Not Be As Good As Thought

2008-05-27 Thread Mark Waser
CAD/CAM programs (and many others) allow the fairly simple input of complex objects like the car in your image and can then create an image of the described object from any view and distance and have done so for years. The problems are in object isolation (what your first URL dealt with) and

Re: [agi] Re: Merging - or: Multiplicity

2008-05-27 Thread Mike Tintner
Will:And you are part of the problem insisting that an AGI should be tested by its ability to learn on its own and not get instruction/help from other agents be they human or other artificial intelligences. I insist[ed] that an AGI should be tested on its ability to solve some *problems* on its

Re: [agi] More Info Please

2008-05-27 Thread David Hart
Derek, you make an excellent point about the OpenCog project appearing too open-ended and unfocused. Ben is writing documentation for a specific cognitive architecture, OpenCog Prime, that is intended to address these concerns. The first iteration of OpenCog Prime is targeted for July and will be

Re: [agi] More Info Please

2008-05-27 Thread Mark Waser
Mark, your reception would be warmer if your behavior was less incessantly abrasive and trollish. I can accept abrasive (since I do get frustrated with bad science, etc.) but believe that trollish is rather unfair . . . . I think it's a good idea to work on a .NET implementation, and

RE: [agi] More Info Please

2008-05-27 Thread John G. Rose
With all this lovely chit-chat about .NET, I have been wondering if anyone was entertaining the possibility of doing a port of NARS from Java to C#. Not that I have seriously considered working myself on it, just that before someone would undertake such an effort it would be beneficial to share

Re: Merging threads was Re: Code generation was Re: [agi] More Info Please

2008-05-27 Thread Steve Richfield
Stephen, This is simply amazing! I thought that I made some key points, but I failed to accurately communicate any of the ones that you commented on! Hmmm, I wonder if the fault was in my posting, your reading of it, nearby erroneous interpretations, or what? Perhaps someone else on this forum

Re: [agi] Re: Merging - or: Multiplicity

2008-05-27 Thread Steve Richfield
Mike, On 5/27/08, Mike Tintner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve:Presuming that you do NOT want to store all of history and repeatedly analyze all of it as your future AGI operates, you must accept MULTIPLE potentially-useful paradigms, adding new ones and trashing old ones as more information

RE: [agi] Re: Merging - or: Multiplicity

2008-05-27 Thread Derek Zahn
Steve Richfield: It is sure nice that this is a VIRTUAL forum, for if we were all in one room together, my posting above would probably get me thrashed by the true AGI believers here. Does anyone here want to throw a virtual stone? Sure. *plonk*