Re: [agi] a fuzzy reasoning problem

2008-07-28 Thread Ben Goertzel
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Re: [agi] a fuzzy reasoning problem

2008-07-28 Thread Ben Goertzel
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:10 AM, YKY (Yan King Yin) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/28/08, Ben Goertzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your inference trajectory assumes that cybersex and STD are probabilistically independent within sex but this is not the case. We only know that: P(sex

Re: [agi] a fuzzy reasoning problem

2008-07-28 Thread Ben Goertzel
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 12:14 PM, YKY (Yan King Yin) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/28/08, Ben Goertzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PLN uses confidence values within its truth values, with a different underlying semantics and math than NARS; but that doesn't help much with the above problem

Re: [agi] need some help with loopy Bayes net

2008-07-04 Thread Ben Goertzel
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Re: [agi] WHAT SORT OF HARDWARE $33K AND $850K BUYS TODAY FOR USE IN AGI

2008-06-30 Thread Ben Goertzel
. Or even just folding proteins! But it seems pretty obvious to me anyway that we will never be able to predict the weather with any precision without doing an awful lot of computation. And what is our mind but the weather in our brains? Terren --- On Sun, 6/29/08, Ben Goertzel [EMAIL

Re: [agi] WHAT SORT OF HARDWARE $33K AND $850K BUYS TODAY FOR USE IN AGI

2008-06-30 Thread Ben Goertzel
... the evolutionary process itself may be endlessly creative, but in that sense so may be the self-modifying process of an engineered AGI ... -- Ben G On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 3:17 AM, Terren Suydam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- On Mon, 6/30/08, Ben Goertzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but I don't agree

Re: [agi] WHAT SORT OF HARDWARE $33K AND $850K BUYS TODAY FOR USE IN AGI

2008-06-30 Thread Ben Goertzel
but the result of a build-up of dynamic tension. Self-organized criticality is explained by the late Per Bak in _How Nature Works_, a short, excellent read and an brilliant example of scientific and mathematical progress in the realm of complexity. --- On Mon, 6/30/08, Ben Goertzel [EMAIL

Re: [agi] WHAT SORT OF HARDWARE $33K AND $850K BUYS TODAY FOR USE IN AGI

2008-06-29 Thread Ben Goertzel
The argument itself is extremely rigorous: on all the occasions on which someone has disputed the rigorousness of the argument, they have either addressed some other issue entirely or they have just waved their hands without showing any sign of understanding the argument, and then said ...

Re: [agi] WHAT SORT OF HARDWARE $33K AND $850K BUYS TODAY FOR USE IN AGI

2008-06-29 Thread Ben Goertzel
Richard, I think that it would be possible to formalize your complex systems argument mathematically, but I don't have time to do so right now. Or, then again . perhaps I am wrong: maybe you really *cannot* understand anything except math? It's not the case that I can only understand

Re: [agi] WHAT SORT OF HARDWARE $33K AND $850K BUYS TODAY FOR USE IN AGI

2008-06-28 Thread Ben Goertzel
On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Richard Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ed Porter wrote: I do not claim the software architecture for AGI has been totally solved. But I believe that enough good AGI approaches exist (and I think Novamente is one) that when powerful hardware available to

Re: [agi] WHAT SORT OF HARDWARE $33K AND $850K BUYS TODAY FOR USE IN AGI

2008-06-28 Thread Ben Goertzel
Richard, So long as the general response to the complex systems problem is not This could be a serious issue, let's put our heads together to investigate it, but My gut feeling is that this is just not going to be a problem, or Quit rocking the boat!, you can bet that nobody really wants to

Re: [agi] Pearls Before Swine...

2008-06-08 Thread Ben Goertzel
of programming complex systems without adequate analysis. Hey you guys with some gray hair and/or bald spots, WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU THINKING? Steve Richfield agi | Archives | Modify Your Subscription -- Ben Goertzel, PhD CEO, Novamente LLC and Biomind LLC

Re: [agi] Pearls Before Swine...

2008-06-08 Thread Ben Goertzel
The truth is, one of the big problems in the field is that nearly everyone working on a concrete AI system has **their own** particular idea of how to do it, and wants to proceed independently rather than compromising with others on various design points. It's hardly a herd mentality -- the

Re: [agi] Pearls Before Swine...

2008-06-08 Thread Ben Goertzel
While the details vary widely, Mike and I were addressing the very concept of writing code to perform functions (e.g. thinking) that apparently develop on their own as emergent properties, and in the process foreclosing on many opportunities, e.g. developing in variant ways to address problems

Re: [agi] Pearls Before Swine...

2008-06-08 Thread Ben Goertzel
mean, work out your ideal way to solve the questions of the mind and share it with us after you've have found some interesting results. Jim Bromer agi | Archives | Modify Your Subscription -- Ben Goertzel, PhD CEO, Novamente LLC and Biomind LLC Director

Re: [agi] Ideological Interactions Need to be Studied

2008-06-08 Thread Ben Goertzel
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Re: [agi] Ideological Interactions Need to be Studied

2008-06-08 Thread Ben Goertzel
But enough of that, let's get to the meat of it: Are you arguing that the function that is a neuron is not an elementary operator for whatever computational model describes the brain? We don't know which function that describes a neuron we need to use -- are Izhikevich's nonlinear dynamics

Re: [agi] OpenCog's logic compared to FOL?

2008-06-03 Thread Ben Goertzel
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Re: [agi] OpenCog's logic compared to FOL?

2008-06-03 Thread Ben Goertzel
wonder why you don't join Stephen Reed on the texai project? Is it because you don't like the open-source nature of his project? ben On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Ben Goertzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One thing I don't get, YKY, is why you think you are going to take textbook methods that have

Re: [agi] OpenCog's logic compared to FOL?

2008-06-03 Thread Ben Goertzel
As we have discussed a while back on the OpenCog mail list, I would like to see a RDF interface to some level of the OpenCog Atom Table. I think that would suit both YKY and myself. Our discussion went so far as to consider ways to assign URI's to appropriate atoms. Yes, I still think

Re: [agi] OpenCog's logic compared to FOL?

2008-06-03 Thread Ben Goertzel
First of all, the *tractability* of your algorithm depends on heuristics that you design, which are separable from the underlying probabilistic logic calculus. In your mind, these 2 things may be mixed up. Indefinite probabilities DO NOT imply faster inference. Domain-specific heuristics

Re: [agi] OpenCog's logic compared to FOL?

2008-06-03 Thread Ben Goertzel
You have done something new, but not so new as to be in a totally different dimension. YKY I have some ideas more like that too but I've postponed trying to sell them to others, for the moment ;-) ... it's hard enough to sell fairly basic stuff like PLN ... Look for some stuff on the

Re: [agi] modus ponens

2008-06-03 Thread Ben Goertzel
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Re: [agi] OpenCog's logic compared to FOL?

2008-06-03 Thread Ben Goertzel
indefinite probabilities? On 6/3/08, Ben Goertzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you attach indefinite probabilities to FOL propositions, and create indefinite probability formulas corresponding to standard FOL rules, you will have a subset of PLN But you'll have a hard time applying Bayes rule

Re: [agi] OpenCog's logic compared to FOL?

2008-06-02 Thread Ben Goertzel
I think it's fine that you use the term atom in your own way. The important thing is, whatever the objects that you attach probabilities to, that class of objects should correspond to *propositions* in FOL. From there it would be easier for me to understand your ideas. Well, no, we attach

Re: [agi] Uncertainty

2008-06-02 Thread Ben Goertzel
I would imagine so, but I havent thought about the details I am traveling now but will think about this when I get home and can refresh my memory by rereading the appropriate sections of Probabilistic Robotics ... ben On 6/2/08, Bob Mottram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/6/2 Ben Goertzel [EMAIL

Re: [agi] OpenCog's logic compared to FOL?

2008-06-02 Thread Ben Goertzel
More likely though, is that your algorithm is incomplete wrt FOL, ie, there may be some things that FOL can infer but PLN can't. Either that, or your algorithm may be actually slower than FOL. FOL is not an algorithm, it:s a representational formalism... As compared to standard logical 

Re: [agi] OpenCog's logic compared to FOL?

2008-06-01 Thread Ben Goertzel
Here are some examples in FOL: Mary is female female(mary) Could be Inheritance Mary female or Evaluation female mary (the latter being equivalent to female(mary) ) but none of these has an uncertain truth value attached... This is a [production] rule: (not to be confused with an

Re: [agi] Live Forever Machines...

2008-06-01 Thread Ben Goertzel
I'll respond to other points tomorrow or the day after (am currently on a biz trip through Asia), but just one thing now... You say With NO money, none of either of our efforts stands a chance. With some realistic investment money, scanning would at minimum be cheap insurance that you will be

Re: [agi] OpenCog's logic compared to FOL?

2008-06-01 Thread Ben Goertzel
Do OpenCog atoms roughly correspond to logical atoms? Not really And what is the counterpart of (logic) propositions in OpenCog? ExtensionalImplication relations I guess... I suggest don't use non-standard terminology 'cause it's very confusing... So long as it's well-defined, I guess it's

Re: [agi] Uncertainty

2008-06-01 Thread Ben Goertzel
I have briefly surveyed the research on uncertain reasoning, and found out that no one has a solution to the entire problem. Ben and Pei Wang may be working towards their solutions but a satisfactory one may be difficult to find. I think the PLN / indefinite probabilities approach is a

Re: [agi] news bit: Is this a unified theory of the brain? Do Bayesian statistics rule the brain?

2008-06-01 Thread Ben Goertzel
theory' of the brain that suggests that virtually all brain functions can be modelled with Bayesian statistics. The link (above) is a blog copy of the article in New Scientist. -dave agi | Archives | Modify Your Subscription -- Ben Goertzel, PhD CEO

Re: [agi] Live Forever Machines...

2008-05-31 Thread Ben Goertzel
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Re: [agi] More Info Please

2008-05-26 Thread Ben Goertzel
mark, What I'd rather do instead is see if we can get a .NET parallel track started over the next few months, see if we can get everything ported, and see the relative productivity between the two paths. That would provide a provably true answer to the debate. Well, it's an open-source

[agi] Re: Mark Waser arguing that OpenCog should be recoded in .Net ;-p

2008-05-26 Thread Ben Goertzel
and would be happy and see huge benefits either way. Mark P.S. Thank you for the forward Ben. - Original Message - From: Ben Goertzel To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2008 8:29 PM Subject: Mark Waser arguing that OpenCog should be recoded in .Net ;-p This email

Re: [agi] More Info Please

2008-05-26 Thread Ben Goertzel
On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 8:33 PM, J. Andrew Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Replying to myself, I'll let Mark have the last word since, after all, it is *his* project and not mine. :-) I assume that last sentence was sarcastic ;-) Of course, while Mark is a valued participant in OpenCog, it's

Re: [agi] More Info Please

2008-05-25 Thread Ben Goertzel
25, 2008 at 6:26 AM, Panu Horsmalahti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is your approach on ensuring AGI safety/Friendliness on this project? agi | Archives | Modify Your Subscription -- Ben Goertzel, PhD CEO, Novamente LLC and Biomind LLC Director of Research

Re: [agi] More Info Please

2008-05-25 Thread Ben Goertzel
On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 10:42 AM, Mark Waser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My own view is that our state of knowledge about AGI is far too weak for us to make detailed plans about how to **ensure** AGI safety, at this point I disagree strenuously. If our arguments will apply to *all*

Re: [agi] More Info Please

2008-05-25 Thread Ben Goertzel
Please, if you're going to argue something -- please take the time to argue it and don't pretend that you can't magically solve it all with your guesses (I mean, intuition). time for mailing list posts is scarce for me these days, so sometimes I post a conclusion w/out the supporting arguments

Re: [agi] More Info Please

2008-05-25 Thread Ben Goertzel
Mark, For OpenCog we had to make a definite choice and we made one. Sorry you don't agree w/ it. I agree that you had to make a choice and made the one that seemed right to various reason. The above comment is rude and snarky however -- particularly since it seems to come *because* you

Re: [agi] More Info Please

2008-05-23 Thread Ben Goertzel
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Re: Symbol Grounding [WAS Re: [agi] AGI-08 videos]

2008-05-06 Thread Ben Goertzel
Richard wrote: Then, when we came back from the break, Ben Goertzel announced that the roundtable on symbol grounding was cancelled, to make room for some other discussion on a topic like the future of AGI, or some such. I was outraged by this. The subsequent discussion was a pathetic

Re: [agi] jamming with OpenCog / Novamente

2008-05-06 Thread Ben Goertzel
YKY --- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?; Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com -- Ben

Re: [agi] AGI-08 videos

2008-05-04 Thread Ben Goertzel
Hi, Somebody could write an excellent paper about the potential pitfalls of such an approach (detail, fidelity, deep causality issues behind appearance, function, and inter-object + inter-feature relationships, and so on). If nobody else is working in detail on publishing such an analysis

Re: [agi] AGI-08 videos

2008-05-04 Thread Ben Goertzel
Loosemore wrote: I hear people enthusing about systems that are filled with holes that were discovered decades ago, but still no fix. I read vague speculations and the use of buzzwords ('Theory of Mind'!?). I see papers discussing narrow AI projects. I suppose there was all that at AGI-08

Re: [agi] AGI-08 videos

2008-05-04 Thread Ben Goertzel
Richard wrote: My god, Mark: I had to listen to people having a general discussion of grounding (the supposed them of that workshop) without a single person showing the slightest sign that they had more than an amateur's perspective on what that concept actually means. I guess you are

[agi] Interesting approach to controlling animated characters...

2008-05-01 Thread Ben Goertzel
Now this looks like a fairly AGI-friendly approach to controlling animated characters ... unfortunately it's closed-source and proprietary though... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphoria_%28software%29 ben --- agi Archives:

Re: [agi] Interesting approach to controlling animated characters...

2008-05-01 Thread Ben Goertzel
/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?; Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com -- Ben Goertzel, PhD CEO, Novamente LLC and Biomind LLC Director of Research, SIAI [EMAIL PROTECTED] If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely

Re: [agi] Interesting approach to controlling animated characters...

2008-05-01 Thread Ben Goertzel
at 5:39 PM, Ben Goertzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now this looks like a fairly AGI-friendly approach to controlling animated characters ... unfortunately it's closed-source and proprietary though... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphoria_%28software%29 ben

Re: [agi] How general can be and should be AGI?

2008-04-27 Thread Ben Goertzel
On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 3:54 AM, Dr. Matthias Heger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ben Goertzel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote 26. April 2008 19:54 Yes, truly general AI is only possible in the case of infinite processing power, which is likely not physically realizable. How much

Re: [agi] Richard's four criteria and the Novamente Pet Brain

2008-04-27 Thread Ben Goertzel
Richard, Question: How many systems do you know of in which the system elements are governed by a mechanism that has all four of these, AND where the system as a whole has a large-scale behavior that has been shown (by any method of showing except detailed simulation of the system) to arise

Re: [agi] Richard's four criteria and the Novamente Pet Brain

2008-04-27 Thread Ben Goertzel
No: I am specifically asking for some system other than an AGI system, because I am looking for an external example of someone overcoming the complex systems problem. The specific criteria you've described would seem to apply mainly to living systems ... and we just don't have that much

Re: [agi] Richard's four criteria and the Novamente Pet Brain

2008-04-27 Thread Ben Goertzel
On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 5:51 PM, Mark Waser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Engineering in the real world is nearly always a mixture of rigor and intuition. Just like analysis of complex biological systems is. AIEe! NO! You are clearly not an engineer because a true engineer just

Re: [agi] Richard's four criteria and the Novamente Pet Brain

2008-04-27 Thread Ben Goertzel
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Re: **SPAM** Re: [agi] Richard's four criteria and the Novamente Pet Brain

2008-04-27 Thread Ben Goertzel
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Re: **SPAM** Re: [agi] Richard's four criteria and the Novamente Pet Brain

2008-04-27 Thread Ben Goertzel
I said and repeat that we can engineer the complexity out of intelligence in the Richard Loosemore sense. I did not say and do not believe that we can engineer the complexity out of intelligence in the Santa Fe Institute sense. OK, gotcha... Yeah... IMO, complexity in the sense you ascribe

Re: [agi] Richard's four criteria and the Novamente Pet Brain

2008-04-27 Thread Ben Goertzel
. The combination of rigorous formulas applying to restrictive cases, together with intuition telling you where to apply what formulas, works OK. Anyway this is a total digression, and I'm done w/ recreational emailing for the day! ben -- Ben Goertzel, PhD CEO, Novamente LLC and Biomind

Re: [agi] How general can be and should be AGI?

2008-04-26 Thread Ben Goertzel
On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 10:03 AM, Dr. Matthias Heger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In my opinion you can apply Gödel's theorem to prove that 100% AGI is not possible in this world if you apply it not to a hypothetical machine or human being but to the whole universe which can be assumed to be a

[agi] Richard's four criteria and the Novamente Pet Brain

2008-04-26 Thread Ben Goertzel
Richard, I've been too busy to participate in this thread, but, now I'll chip in a single comment, anyways... regarding the intersection btw your thoughts and Novamente's current work... You cited the following 4 criteria, - Memory. Does the mechanism use stored information about what it was

Re: [agi] THE NEWEST REVELATIONS ABOUT RICHARD'S COMPLEXITY THEORIES---Mark's defense of falsehood

2008-04-26 Thread Ben Goertzel
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Re: [agi] THE NEWEST REVELATIONS ABOUT RICHARD'S COMPLEXITY THEORIES---Mark's defense of falsehood

2008-04-26 Thread Ben Goertzel
person? - Original Message - From: Ben Goertzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2008 2:14 PM Subject: **SPAM** Re: [agi] THE NEWEST REVELATIONS ABOUT RICHARD'S COMPLEXITY THEORIES---Mark's defense of falsehood I believe the monsters

WARNING -- LET'S KEEP THE LIST CIVIL PLEASE ... was Re: [agi] How general can be and should be AGI?

2008-04-26 Thread Ben Goertzel
Ummm... just a little note of warning from the list owner. Tintner wrote: So I await your geometric solution to this problem - (a mere statement of principle will do) - with great interest. Well, actually no. Your answer is broadly predictable - you 1) won't have any idea here 2) will have

Re: [agi] Richard's four criteria and the Novamente Pet Brain

2008-04-26 Thread Ben Goertzel
Richard, How does this relate to the original context in which I cited this list of four characteristics? It loks like your comments are completely outside the original context, so they don't add anything of relevance. I read the thread and I think my comments are relevant Let me bring

Re: [agi] Other AGI-like communities

2008-04-23 Thread Ben Goertzel
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 5:21 AM, Joshua Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To return to the old question of why AGI research seems so rare, Samsonovich et al. say (http://members.cox.net/alexei.v.samsonovich/samsonovich_workshop.pdf) 'In fact, there are several scientific communities pursuing the

Re: [agi] Other AGI-like communities

2008-04-23 Thread Ben Goertzel
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 11:29 AM, Mike Tintner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ben/Joshua: How do you think the AI and AGI fields relate to the embodied grounded cognition movements in cog. sci? My impression is that the majority of people here (excluding you) still have only limited awareness of

Re: Open source (was Re: [agi] The Strange Loop of AGI Funding: now logically proved!)

2008-04-20 Thread Ben Goertzel
to pay programmers to write programs, at least some of the time. You can't always rely upon voluntary effort, especially when the problem you want to solve is fairly obscure. On 19/04/2008, Ben Goertzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Translation: We all (me included) now accept

Re: [agi] The Strange Loop of AGI Funding: now logically proved!

2008-04-18 Thread Ben Goertzel
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Re: [agi] The Strange Loop of AGI Funding: now logically proved!

2008-04-18 Thread Ben Goertzel
Potentially, though, massively distributed, collaborative open-source software development could render your first premise false ... Though it is unlikely to do so, because collaborative open-source projects are best suited to situations in which the fundamental ideas behind the

Re: [agi] The Strange Loop of AGI Funding: now logically proved!

2008-04-18 Thread Ben Goertzel
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 5:35 PM, Mike Tintner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pei: I don't really want a big gang at now (that will only waste the time of mine and the others), but a small-but-good gang, plus more time for myself --- which means less group debates, I guess. ;-) Alternatively,

Re: [agi] The Strange Loop of AGI Funding: now logically proved!

2008-04-18 Thread Ben Goertzel
YKY, I believe I've solved the fundamental issues behind the Novamente/OpenCog design... It's hard to tell whether you have really solved the AGI problem, at this stage. ;) Understood... Also, your AGI framework has a lot of non-standard, home-brew stuff (especially the knowledge

Re: [agi] An Open Letter to AGI Investors

2008-04-17 Thread Ben Goertzel
We may well see a variety of proto-AGI applications in different domains, sorta midway between narrow-AI and human-level AGI, including stuff like -- maidbots -- AI financial traders that don't just execute machine learning algorithms, but grok context, adapt to regime changes, etc.

Re: [agi] An Open Letter to AGI Investors

2008-04-17 Thread Ben Goertzel
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Re: [agi] database access fast enough?

2008-04-17 Thread Ben Goertzel
Hi Mark, This is, by the way, my primary complaint about Novamente -- far too much energy, mind-space, time, and effort has gone into optimizing and repeatedly upgrading the custom atom table that should have been built on top of existing tools instead of being built totally from scratch.

Re: [agi] database access fast enough?

2008-04-17 Thread Ben Goertzel
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Mark Waser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Really, work on the AtomTable has been a small percentage of work on the Novamente Cognition Engine ... and, the code running the AtomTable is now pretty much the same as it was in 2001 (though it was tweaked to make it

Re: [agi] Posting Strategies - A Gentle Reminder

2008-04-14 Thread Ben Goertzel
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Re: [agi] How Bodies of Knowledge Grow

2008-04-10 Thread Ben Goertzel
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[agi] Big Dog

2008-04-10 Thread Ben Goertzel
Peruse the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1czBcnX1Wwfeature=related Of course, they are only showing the best stuff. And I am sure there is plenty of work left to do. But from the variety of behaviors that are displayed, I would say that the problem of quadraped walking is

[agi] Unsupervised grammar mining from text [was GSoC: Learning Simple Grammars]

2008-04-05 Thread Ben Goertzel
, Evgenii Philippov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 7:37 PM, Ben Goertzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For instance, I'll be curious whether ADIOS's automatically inferred grammars can deal with recursive phrase structure, with constructs like the person with whom I ate dinner

[agi] Fwd: [DIV10] opportunity for graduate studies in evolution of human creativity

2008-04-01 Thread Ben Goertzel
distinctive. -- Ben Goertzel, PhD CEO, Novamente LLC and Biomind LLC Director of Research, SIAI [EMAIL PROTECTED] If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms. -- Henry Miller --- agi Archives: http

Re: [agi] Logical Satisfiability...Get used to it.

2008-03-31 Thread Ben Goertzel
. agi | Archives | Modify Your Subscription -- Ben Goertzel, PhD CEO, Novamente LLC and Biomind LLC Director of Research, SIAI [EMAIL PROTECTED] If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms. -- Henry Miller

Re: [agi] Novamente's next 15 minutes of fame...

2008-03-31 Thread Ben Goertzel
PROTECTED] wrote: Is it running inside Second Life already or it's another enviroment? (sorry I don't know SL very well) On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 11:40 PM, Ben Goertzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nothing has been publicly released yet, it's still at the research-prototype stage ... I'll announce

Re: [agi] Logical Satisfiability...Get used to it.

2008-03-31 Thread Ben Goertzel
Thank you for your politeness and your insightful comments. I am going to quit this group because I have found that it is a pretty bad sign when the moderator mocks an individual for his religious beliefs. FWIW, I wasn't joking about your algorithm's putative divine inspiration in my role

Re: [agi] Logical Satisfiability...Get used to it.

2008-03-30 Thread Ben Goertzel
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Re: [agi] Logical Satisfiability...Get used to it.

2008-03-30 Thread Ben Goertzel
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Re: [agi] Novamente's next 15 minutes of fame...

2008-03-29 Thread Ben Goertzel
or something. Is it set up already? Jim Bromer On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 6:54 PM, Ben Goertzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://technology.newscientist.com/article/mg19726495.700-virtual-pets-can-learn-just-like-babies.html -- Ben Goertzel, PhD CEO, Novamente LLC and Biomind LLC

[agi] Novamente's next 15 minutes of fame...

2008-03-28 Thread Ben Goertzel
http://technology.newscientist.com/article/mg19726495.700-virtual-pets-can-learn-just-like-babies.html -- Ben Goertzel, PhD CEO, Novamente LLC and Biomind LLC Director of Research, SIAI [EMAIL PROTECTED] If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become

Re: [agi] Microsoft Launches Singularity

2008-03-27 Thread Ben Goertzel
So if I tell you to handle an object, or a piece of business, like say removing a chair from the house - that word handle is open-ended and gives you vast freedom within certain parameters as to how to apply your hand(s) to that object. Your hands can be applied to move a given box, for

Re: [agi] Microsoft Launches Singularity

2008-03-27 Thread Ben Goertzel
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Re: [agi] Instead of an AGI Textbook

2008-03-26 Thread Ben Goertzel
one, right? Hey - whatever helps. For me, it's a win-win. It would help me, and it would help accomplish what you guys are trying to do. Let me know, ~Aki On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 10:40 PM, Ben Goertzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This kind of diagram would certainly be meaningful

Re: [agi] Instead of an AGI Textbook

2008-03-26 Thread Ben Goertzel
it into a textbook -- Ben On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Mark Waser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Ben, I have a publisher who would love to publish the result of the wiki as a textbook if you are willing. Mark - Original Message - From: Ben Goertzel [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [agi] Instead of an AGI Textbook

2008-03-26 Thread Ben Goertzel
Hi Stephen, Ben, Wikipedia has significant overlap with the topic list on the AGIRI Wiki. I propose for discussion the notion that the AGIRI Wiki be content-compatible with Wikipedia along two dimensions: license - authors agree to the GNU Free Documentation License I have no problem with

Re: [agi] Instead of an AGI Textbook

2008-03-26 Thread Ben Goertzel
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Fwd: [agi] Instead of an AGI Textbook

2008-03-26 Thread Ben Goertzel
BTW I improved the hierarchical organization of the TOC a bit, to remove the impression that it's just a random grab-bag of topics... http://www.agiri.org/wiki/Instead_of_an_AGI_Textbook ben --- agi Archives:

[agi] Instead_of_an_AGI_Textbook Challenge !!

2008-03-26 Thread Ben Goertzel
... And then I'll save a lot of time during the next year, because when someone emails me and asks me what they should read to get up to speed on the general thinking in the AGI field, I'll just point them to the non-textbook ;-) -- Ben -- Ben Goertzel, PhD CEO, Novamente LLC and Biomind LLC

[agi] Re: Instead_of_an_AGI_Textbook Challenge !!

2008-03-26 Thread Ben Goertzel
of fun weekend ;-) -- Ben On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 10:43 PM, Ben Goertzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK... I just burned an hour inserting more links and content into http://www.agiri.org/wiki/Instead_of_an_AGI_Textbook I'm burnt out on it for a while, there's too much other stuff on my plate

Re: [agi] Microsoft Launches Singularity

2008-03-25 Thread Ben Goertzel
Now, let me ask you a question: Do you believe that all AI / AGI researchers are toiling over all this for the challenge, or purely out of interest? I doubt that as well. Surely there are those elements as drivers - BUT SO IS MONEY. Aki, you don't seem to understand the psychology of the

Re: [agi] Microsoft Launches Singularity

2008-03-25 Thread Ben Goertzel
Hi Aki, Even as a pure scientist, you can accomplish more in research by producing wealth, than depending on gov't grants. I say gov't grants because private investment is probably years away from now. The topic of financing got a lot of attention at AGI 08. Well, if you're an AGI

Re: [agi] Novamente study

2008-03-25 Thread Ben Goertzel
). To do that properly, I am waiting for your book on Probabilistic Logic Networks to be published. Amazon says July 2008... is that date correct? Thanks! agi | Archives | Modify Your Subscription -- Ben Goertzel, PhD CEO, Novamente LLC and Biomind LLC

[agi] Instead of an AGI Textbook

2008-03-25 Thread Ben Goertzel
, some mathematics, etc. *** -- Ben -- Ben Goertzel, PhD CEO, Novamente LLC and Biomind LLC Director of Research, SIAI [EMAIL PROTECTED] If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms. -- Henry Miller

Re: [agi] Java spreading activation library released

2008-03-25 Thread Ben Goertzel
| Archives | Modify Your Subscription -- Ben Goertzel, PhD CEO, Novamente LLC and Biomind LLC Director of Research, SIAI [EMAIL PROTECTED] If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms. -- Henry Miller --- agi

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