Re: [agi] Instead of an AGI Textbook

2008-03-25 Thread Ben Goertzel
Richard, Unfortunately I cannot bring myself to believe this will help anyone new to the area. The main reason is that this is only a miscellaneous list of topics, with nothing to indicate a comprehensive theory or a unifying structure. I do not ask for a complete unified theory, of

Re: [agi] Instead of an AGI Textbook

2008-03-25 Thread Ben Goertzel
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 9:39 PM, Ben Goertzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard, Unfortunately I cannot bring myself to believe this will help anyone new to the area. The main reason is that this is only a miscellaneous list of topics, with nothing to indicate a comprehensive

Re: [agi] Instead of an AGI Textbook

2008-03-25 Thread Ben Goertzel
I'll try to find the time to provide my list --- at this moment, it will be more like a reading list than a textbook TOC. That would be great -- however I may integrate your reading list into my TOC ... as I really think there is value in a structured and categorized reading list rather than

Re: [agi] Instead of an AGI Textbook

2008-03-25 Thread Ben Goertzel
the time right now - but it is a worthwhile endeavor, and I'm happy to do it. ~Aki On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 6:46 PM, Ben Goertzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, A lot of students email me asking me what to read to get up to speed on AGI. So I started a wiki

Re: [agi] Instead of an AGI Textbook

2008-03-25 Thread Ben Goertzel
I actually recently purchased Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach - but only because I did not know where else to start. It's a very good book ... if you view it as providing insight into various component technologies of potential use for AGI ... rather than as saying very much

Re: [agi] Instead of an AGI Textbook

2008-03-25 Thread Ben Goertzel
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 11:07 PM, Aki Iskandar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Ben. That is really exciting stuff / news. I'm loking forward to OpenCog. BTW - is OpenCog mainly in C++ (like Novamente) ? Or is it translations (to Java, or other languages) of concepts so that others can code

Re: [agi] Instead of an AGI Textbook

2008-03-25 Thread Ben Goertzel
want to propose. We shouldn't try to merge them into one wiki page, but several. Pei On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 7:46 PM, Ben Goertzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, A lot of students email me asking me what to read to get up to speed on AGI. So I started a wiki

[agi] Microsoft Launches Singularity

2008-03-24 Thread Ben Goertzel
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[agi] Seeking student programmers for summer 2008: OpenCog meets Google Summer of Code

2008-03-22 Thread Ben Goertzel
). Some proposal ideas are found here http://opencog.org/wiki/Ideas but we're quite open to other suggestions as well, in the freewheeling spirit of GSOC... Thanks Ben -- Ben Goertzel, PhD CEO, Novamente LLC and Biomind LLC Director of Research, SIAI [EMAIL PROTECTED] If men cease to believe

Re: [agi]

2008-03-13 Thread Ben Goertzel
... or whatever the set of objects in the toy world may be... This is the danger of toy test environments, be they in virtual worlds or physical robotics... ben g On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 12:35 PM, Ben Goertzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unless the details of that modified Turing Test are somehow

Re: [agi] Recap/Summary/Thesis Statement

2008-03-11 Thread Ben Goertzel
An attractor is a set of states that are repeated given enough time. If agents are killed and not replaced, you can't return to the current state. False. There are certainly attractors that disappear, first seen by Ruelle, Takens, 1971 its called a blue sky catastrophe

Re: [agi] Re: Your mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2008-03-11 Thread Ben Goertzel
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Re: [agi] Some thoughts of an AGI designer

2008-03-10 Thread Ben Goertzel
The three most common of these assumptions are: 1) That it will have the same motivations as humans, but with a tendency toward the worst that we show. 2) That it will have some kind of Gotta Optimize My Utility Function motivation. 3) That it will have an intrinsic urge to

Re: [agi] What should we do to be prepared?

2008-03-09 Thread Ben Goertzel
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[agi] Brief report on AGI-08

2008-03-08 Thread Ben Goertzel
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[agi] AGI-08 in the news...

2008-03-05 Thread Ben Goertzel
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Re: [agi] would anyone want to use a commonsense KB?

2008-03-03 Thread Ben Goertzel
Sure, AGI needs to handle NL in an open-ended way. But the question is whether the internal knowledge representation of the AGI needs to allow ambiguities, or should we use an ambiguity-free representation. It seems that the latter choice is better. Otherwise, the knowledge stored in

Re: [agi] AGI Metaphysics and spatial biases.

2008-03-02 Thread Ben Goertzel
Using informal words, how would you describe the metaphysics or biases currently encoded into the Novamente system? /Robert Wensman This is a good question, and unfortunately I don't have a systematic answer. Biases are encoded in many different aspects of the design, e.g. -- the knowledge

Re: [agi] Solomonoff Induction Question

2008-02-29 Thread Ben Goertzel
model of intelligence IMHO. My thinking is that a more-universal theoretical prior would be a prior over logically definable models, some of which will be incomputable. Any thoughts? agi | Archives | Modify Your Subscription -- Ben Goertzel, PhD CEO

Re: [agi] Solomonoff Induction Question

2008-02-29 Thread Ben Goertzel
This is a general theorem about *strings* in this formal system, but no such string with uncomputable real number can ever be written, so saying that it's a theorem about uncomputable real numbers is an empty set theory (it's a true statement, but it's true in a trivial falsehood,

Re: [agi] would anyone want to use a commonsense KB?

2008-02-28 Thread Ben Goertzel
Hi, I think Ben's text mining approach has one big flaw: it can only reason about existing knowledge, but cannot generate new ideas using words / concepts. Text mining is not an AGI approach, it's merely a possible way of getting knowledge into an AGI. Whether the AGI can generate new ideas

Re: [agi] would anyone want to use a commonsense KB?

2008-02-27 Thread Ben Goertzel
I'm not talking about inference control here -- I assume that inference control is done in a proper way, and there will still be a problem. You seem to assume that all knowledge = what is explicitly stated in online texts. So you deny that there is a large body of implicit knowledge other

Re: [agi] reasoning knowledge

2008-02-27 Thread Ben Goertzel
d) you keep repeating the illusion that evolution did NOT achieve the airplane and other machines - oh yes, it did - your central illusion here is that machines are independent species. They're not. They are EXTENSIONS of human beings, and don't work without human beings attached.

Re: [agi] reasoning knowledge

2008-02-27 Thread Ben Goertzel
Well, what I and embodied cognitive science are trying to formulate properly, both philosophically and scientifically, is why: a) common sense consciousness is the brain-AND-body thinking on several levels simultaneously about any given subject... I don't buy that my body plays a

Re: [agi] would anyone want to use a commonsense KB?

2008-02-27 Thread Ben Goertzel
It could be done with a simple chain of word associations mined from a text corpus: alert - coffee - caffeine - theobromine - chocolate. That approach yields way, way, way too much noise. Try it. But that is not the problem. The problem is that the reasoning would be faulty, even with

Re: [agi] would anyone want to use a commonsense KB?

2008-02-27 Thread Ben Goertzel
yet I still feel you dismiss the text-mining approach too glibly... No, but text mining requires a language model that learns while mining. You can't mine the text first. Agreed ... and this gets into subtle points. Which aspects of the language model need to be adapted while mining,

Re: [agi] reasoning knowledge

2008-02-26 Thread Ben Goertzel
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Re: [agi] reasoning knowledge

2008-02-26 Thread Ben Goertzel
Knowing how to carry out inference can itself be procedural knowledge, in which case no explicit distinction between the two is required. -- Vladimir Nesov Representationally, the same formalisms can of course be used for both procedural and declarative knowledge. The slightly subtler

Re: [agi] would anyone want to use a commonsense KB?

2008-02-26 Thread Ben Goertzel
SAT/SMT in step 3 ... but, using these techniques within NM/OpenCog is also a possibility down the road, I've been studying the possibility... -- Ben On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 6:56 AM, YKY (Yan King Yin) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/25/08, Ben Goertzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi

Re: [agi] would anyone want to use a commonsense KB?

2008-02-26 Thread Ben Goertzel
) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/26/08, Ben Goertzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Obviously, extracting knowledge from the Web using a simplistic SAT approach is infeasible However, I don't think it follows from this that extracting rich knowledge from the Web is infeasible It would

Re: [agi] reasoning knowledge

2008-02-26 Thread Ben Goertzel
Your piano example is a good one. What it illustrates, I suggest, is: your knowledge of, and thinking about, how to play the piano, and perform the many movements involved, is overwhelmingly imaginative and body knowledge/thinking (contained in images and the motor parts of the brain

Re: [agi] reasoning knowledge

2008-02-26 Thread Ben Goertzel
No one in AGI is aiming for common sense consciousness, are they? The OpenCog and NM architectures are in principle supportive of this kind of multisensory integrative consciousness, but not a lot of thought has gone into exactly how to support it ... In one approach, one would want to have

Re: [agi] reasoning knowledge

2008-02-26 Thread Ben Goertzel
You guys seem to think this - true common sense consciousness - can all be cracked in a year or two. I think there's probably a lot of good reasons - and therefore major creative problems - why it took a billion years of evolution to achieve. I'm not trying to emulate the brain.

Re: [agi] would anyone want to use a commonsense KB?

2008-02-24 Thread Ben Goertzel
short inferences paths pass, or something like that. Ed Porter -Original Message- From: Ben Goertzel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 5:54 PM To: agi@v2.listbox.com Subject: Re: [agi] would anyone want to use a commonsense KB? And I seriously

Re: [agi] A Follow-Up Question re Vision.. P.S.

2008-02-21 Thread Ben Goertzel
we'd like... 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 --- agi Archives: http

Re: [agi] would anyone want to use a commonsense KB?

2008-02-20 Thread Ben Goertzel
C is not very viable as of now. The physics in Second Life is simply not *rich* enough. SL is mainly a space for humans to socialize, so the physics will not get much richer in the near future -- is anyone interested in emulating cigarette smoke in SL? Second Life will soon be integrating

Re: [agi] would anyone want to use a commonsense KB?

2008-02-20 Thread Ben Goertzel
. The question is do enough heuristics make an autogenous AI or is there something more fundamental to its structure? On Wednesday 20 February 2008 12:27:59 pm, Ben Goertzel wrote: The trick to understanding once in a blue moon is to either -- look at the moon or -- ask someone

Re: [agi] would anyone want to use a commonsense KB?

2008-02-20 Thread Ben Goertzel
To me, the moon varies from a deep orange to brilliant white depending on atmospheric conditions and time of night... none of which would help me understand the text references. On Wednesday 20 February 2008 02:02:52 pm, Ben Goertzel wrote: On Feb 20, 2008 1:34 PM, J Storrs Hall, PhD

Re: [agi] would anyone want to use a commonsense KB?

2008-02-20 Thread Ben Goertzel
in the right direction... 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 --- agi

Re: [agi] would anyone want to use a commonsense KB?

2008-02-20 Thread Ben Goertzel
at 3:45 PM, Matt Mahoney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Ben Goertzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I note also that a web-surfing AGI could resolve the color of the moon quite easily by analyzing online pictures -- though this isn't pure text mining, it's in the same spirit... Not really. You

Re: [agi] would anyone want to use a commonsense KB?

2008-02-20 Thread Ben Goertzel
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 4:27 PM, J Storrs Hall, PhD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, imagine a lifetime's experience is a billion symbol-occurences. Imagine you have a heuristic that takes the problem down from NP-complete (which it almost certainly is) to a linear system, so there is an N^3

Re: [agi] would anyone want to use a commonsense KB?

2008-02-20 Thread Ben Goertzel
: A PROBABILISTIC logic network is a lot more like a numerical problem than a SAT problem. On Wednesday 20 February 2008 04:41:51 pm, Ben Goertzel wrote: On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 4:27 PM, J Storrs Hall, PhD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, imagine a lifetime's experience is a billion symbol

Re: [agi] would anyone want to use a commonsense KB?

2008-02-20 Thread Ben Goertzel
To get back to Ben's statement: Is the computer chip industry happy with contemporary SAT solvers Well they are using them, but of course there is loads of room for improvement!! or would a general solver that is capable of beating n^4 time be of some use to them? If it would be useful, then

Re: [agi] would anyone want to use a commonsense KB?

2008-02-20 Thread Ben Goertzel
And I seriously doubt that a general SMT solver + prob. theory is going to beat a custom probabilistic logic solver. My feeling is that an SMT solver plus appropriate subsets of prob theory can be a very powerful component of a general probabilistic inference framework... I can back this up

Re: [agi] would anyone want to use a commonsense KB?

2008-02-17 Thread Ben Goertzel
Yes, I'd like to hear others' opinion on Cyc. Personally I don't think it's the perceptual grounding issue -- grounding can be added incrementally later. I think Cyc (the KB) is on the right track, but it doesn't have enough rules. I do think it's possible a Cyc approach could work if one

Re: [agi] would anyone want to use a commonsense KB?

2008-02-17 Thread Ben Goertzel
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Re: [agi] would anyone want to use a commonsense KB?

2008-02-17 Thread Ben Goertzel
I agree, that might be a viable approach. But the key phrase is Encode some simple knowledge, instruct the system in how to ground it in its sensorimotor experience - i.e. you're _not_ spending a decade writing a million assertions and _then_ looking for the first time at the grounding

Re: [agi] would anyone want to use a commonsense KB?

2008-02-17 Thread Ben Goertzel
In other words, maybe what you think needs to be gotten from grounding in a nonlinguistic domain, could somehow be gotten indirectly via grounding in masses of text? I am not confident this is feasible, nor that it isn't ... and it's not the approach I'm following ... but I'm

Re: [agi] Visual Reasoning Part 1 The Scene

2008-02-16 Thread Ben Goertzel
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Re: [agi] Visual Reasoning Part 1 The Scene

2008-02-16 Thread Ben Goertzel
an AGI - in symbols-AND- graphics/schemas-AND detailed images - simultaneously, interdependently - that we are the greatest movie on earth with words/symbols-AND-pictures. agi | Archives | Modify Your Subscription -- Ben Goertzel, PhD CEO

Re: [agi] A 1st Step To Using Your Image-ination

2008-02-15 Thread Ben Goertzel
Perhaps it will start to give you a sense that words and indeed all symbols provide an extremely limited *inventory of the world* and all its infinite parts and behaviours. I welcome any impressionistic responses here, including confused questions. I agree with the above, but I think one

Re: [agi] Applicable to Cyc, NARS, ATM others?

2008-02-14 Thread Ben Goertzel
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Re: [agi] reasoning knowledge.. p.s.

2008-02-14 Thread Ben Goertzel
Hi Mike, P.S. I also came across this lesson that AGI forecasting must stop (I used to make similar mistakes elsewhere). We've been at it since mid-1998, and we estimate that within 1-3 years from the time I'm writing this (March 2001), we will complete the creation of a program that

Re: [agi] Reading on automatic programming?

2008-02-05 Thread Ben Goertzel
8. Generative Programming, Methods, Tools, and Applications (2000) - Krzysztof Czarnecki, Ulrich W. Eisenecker The above is a very good book, IMO ... not directly AGI-related, but damn insightful re generative software design... - This list is sponsored by AGIRI:

[agi] A little more technical information about OpenCog

2008-02-03 Thread Ben Goertzel
in various emails... -- Ben G p.s. for those who don't know what opencog is, see http://opencog.org/wiki/Main_Page -- 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] Emergent languages Org

2008-02-03 Thread Ben Goertzel
IMO language is integral to strong AI in the same way that logic is integral to mathematics. The counterargument is that no one has yet made an AI virtual chimp ... and nearly all of the human brain is the same as that of a chimp ... I think that language-centric approaches are viable, but I

Re: [agi] Emergent languages Org

2008-02-03 Thread Ben Goertzel
Hi, I'd be interested in what you see as the path from SLAM to AGI. To me, language generation seems obvious: 1. Make a language and algorithms for generating stuff in that language. 2. Implement pattern recognition and abstraction (imo not _that_ hard if you've designed your language well)

Re: Singularity Outcomes [WAS Re: [agi] OpenMind, MindPixel founders both commit suicide

2008-01-27 Thread Ben Goertzel
Google already knows more than any human, This is only true, of course, for specific interpretations of the word know ... and NOT for the standard ones... and can retrieve the information faster, but it can't launch a singularity. Because, among other reasons, it is not an intelligence, but

Re: [agi] Study hints that fruit flies have free will

2008-01-24 Thread Ben Goertzel
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Re: [agi] Study hints that fruit flies have free will

2008-01-24 Thread Ben Goertzel
In other words, flies seem to possess the same kind of internal spontaneity-generation that we possess, and that we associate with our subjectively-experienced feeling of free will. -- Ben G To clarify further: Suppose you are told to sit still for a while, and then move your hand suddenly

Re: [agi] Study hints that fruit flies have free will

2008-01-24 Thread Ben Goertzel
The question vis-a-vis the fly - or any animal - is whether the *whole* course of action of the fly in that experiment can be accounted for by one - or a set of - programmed routines or programs period. My impression - without having studied the experiment in detail - is that it weighs against

Re: [agi] Study hints that fruit flies have free will

2008-01-24 Thread Ben Goertzel
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Re: [agi] Study hints that fruit flies have free will

2008-01-24 Thread Ben Goertzel
Possible major misunderstanding : I am not in any shape or form a vitalist. My argument is solely about whether a thinking machine (brain or computer) has to be instructed to think rigidly or freely, with or without prior rules - and whether, with the class of problems that come under AGI,

Re: [agi] SAT, SMT and AGI

2008-01-21 Thread Ben Goertzel
As far as I know there is little or no work done yet to integrate probabilistic reasoning with these solvers and it will probably not be easy to do it and keep things efficient. I don't think it will be easy, but what's intriguing is that it seems like it might be feasible-though-difficult

KILLTHREAD -- Re: [agi] Logical Satisfiability

2008-01-20 Thread Ben Goertzel
reduced it to linear programming somehow. Thanks Ben Goertzel List Owner On Jan 20, 2008 1:51 PM, Vladimir Nesov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim, I'm sure most people here don't have any difficulty understanding what you are talking about. You seem to lack solid understanding of these basic

Re: KILLTHREAD -- Re: [agi] Logical Satisfiability

2008-01-20 Thread Ben Goertzel
On Jan 20, 2008 2:34 PM, Jim Bromer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am disappointed because the question of how a polynomial time solution of logical satisfiability might affect agi is very important to me. Well, feel free to start a new thread on that topic, then ;-) In fact, I will do so: I will

[agi] SAT, SMT and AGI

2008-01-20 Thread Ben Goertzel
effective are current SMT solvers then? If they are effective, then SMT could prove an interesting tool within an AGI inference engine... a way of relatively rapidly resolving complex queries... -- Ben -- Ben Goertzel, PhD CEO, Novamente LLC and Biomind LLC Director of Research, SIAI [EMAIL

Re: [agi] SAT, SMT and AGI

2008-01-20 Thread Ben Goertzel
... as has been pointed out on this list s many times ... and as Eric Baum argues quite elegantly (among other points) in What Is Thought? ben -- Ben Goertzel, PhD CEO, Novamente LLC and Biomind LLC Director of Research, SIAI [EMAIL PROTECTED] We are on the edge of change comparable

Re: [agi] OpenMind, MindPixel founders both commit suicide

2008-01-19 Thread Ben Goertzel
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Re: [agi] OpenMind, MindPixel founders both commit suicide

2008-01-19 Thread Ben Goertzel
... I think that it is at best peripheral to any really serious AGI approach. However, some serious AGI thinkers, such as Doug Lenat, believe otherwise. And, this list is about AGI in general, not about any specific approaches to AGI. So, the thread can stay... -- Ben Goertzel, list owner Bob

Re: [agi] Glocal knowledge representation?

2007-03-26 Thread Ben Goertzel
hypothesize is used in the brain... thx ben On 3/25/07, Ben Goertzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Does anyone know if the term glocal (meaning global/local) has previously been used in the context of AI knowledge representation? While not recognized as a formal term of knowledge representation

[agi] Re: Why is progress toward AGI so slow?

2007-03-26 Thread Ben Goertzel
The project was founded officially in 2001 but for much of the time between 2001 and 2004 there was NOBODY working on it full time. All of us founders had day jobs, either actual jobs or AI consulting jobs, needed to pay the bills. For the last couple years there were 2-3 people working

[agi] New business direction for Novamente LLC

2007-03-26 Thread Ben Goertzel
Hi all, As there has been a lot of discussion of the Novamente AI system on this list, it seems apropos to announce here that Novamente LLC has decided upon a significant shift in business direction/approach. If you're curious a pertinent company blog entry is here:

[agi] Why is progress toward AGI so slow?

2007-03-26 Thread Ben Goertzel
Hi, - what is the REAL reason highly talented AGI research groups keep pushing their deadlines back. E.g. Ben's announced imminent breakthrus several times ... the one fact he mentioned a few years back that made sense is the huge parameter space/degrees of freedom (you have at least 5 to 10

[agi] Glocal knowledge representation?

2007-03-25 Thread Ben Goertzel
Hi, Does anyone know if the term glocal (meaning global/local) has previously been used in the context of AI knowledge representation? thx Ben G - This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to:

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

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

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: 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: 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

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

2007-03-23 Thread Ben Goertzel
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 to get a reasonable

[agi] Why C++ ?

2007-03-23 Thread Ben Goertzel
Samantha Atknis wrote: Ben Goertzel wrote: Regarding languages, I personally am a big fan of both Ruby and Haskell. But, for Novamente we use C++ for reasons of scalability. I am curious as to how C++ helps scalability. What sorts of scalability? Along what dimensions? There are ways

[agi] Re: Why C++ ?

2007-03-23 Thread Ben Goertzel
BTW I think I have answered that question at least 5 times on this list or on the SL4 list. I'm almost motivated to make a Novamente FAQ to avoid this sort of repetition!!! ben Ben Goertzel wrote: Samantha Atknis wrote: Ben Goertzel wrote: Regarding languages, I personally am a big

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-23 Thread Ben Goertzel
David Clark wrote: I appreciate the amount of effort you made in replying to my email. Most of your questions would be answered if you read the documentation on my site. The last time I looked, LISP had no built-in database. Allegro Lisp has a very nice (easy to use, scalable, damn fast)

Re: [agi] Fwd: Numenta Newsletter: March 20, 2007

2007-03-21 Thread Ben Goertzel
Chuck Esterbrook wrote: On 3/20/07, Ben Goertzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would certainly expect that a mature Novamente system would be able to easily solve this kind of invariant recognition problem. However, just because a human toddler can solve this sort of problem easily, doesn't mean

[agi] META: People ... be nice, please! [list moderation action]

2007-03-21 Thread Ben Goertzel
! Thanks Ben Goertzel (list owner/ moderator) David Clark wrote: I put up with 1 person out of all the thousands of emails I get who insisted on sending standard text messages as a attachment. Because of virus infections, I had normally set all emails with attachments to automatically get put

Re: [agi] Emergence

2007-03-20 Thread Ben Goertzel
Richard But where you (I believe) start to confuse the picture is by selecting an example of an 'emergent' system that is a special case. Hopfield nets are barely complex enough to have any emergent properties: in fact, they were pretty much engineered so that they could be analysed

Re: [agi] structure of the mind

2007-03-20 Thread Ben Goertzel
Eric Baum wrote: Hayek doesn't directly scale from random start to an AGI architecture in as much as the learning is too slow. But the same is true of any other means of EC or learning that doesn't start with some huge head start. It seems entirely reasonable to merge a Hayek like architecture

Re: [agi] Emergence

2007-03-20 Thread Ben Goertzel
Hi, P.S. About Daniel Amit: I haven't read the book, but are you saying he demonstrates coherent, *meaningful* symbol processing as the transition of the dynamics through the lobes of an ultracomplex set of attractor lobes? Like, reasoning with the symbols, or something? And that he

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-20 Thread Ben Goertzel
For people who might be interested in influencing some of the features of this system, I would appreciate them looking at my documentation at www.rccconsulting.com/hal.htm http://www.rccconsulting.com/hal.htm Although my system isn't quite ready for alpha distribution yet, I expect that it

Re: [agi] Project Halo [Was: DARPA Ends Brain Reverse Engineering Project]

2007-03-20 Thread Ben Goertzel
FreeBase should be a really wonderful resource for early-stage AGIs to learn from... -- Ben I think Danny Hillis became consumed with FreeBasing. ;-) See http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge205.html for a recent report on his newly announced open database project. - Jef - This

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-20 Thread Ben Goertzel
David Clark wrote: If you were introducing a radically new programming paradigm for AGI, I would be more interested Not that I think this is necessary to achieve AGI, but I would find it more intellectually stimulating ;-) If you care to detail what kind of problem or structure you

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-20 Thread Ben Goertzel
Shane Legg wrote: Ben, I didn't know you were a Ruby fan... Cassio has gotten me into Ruby ... but in Novamente it's used only for prototyping, the real system is C++ For some non-AGI consulting projects we have also used Ruby. Ruby runs slowly, but, other than that, it's a great language.

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-20 Thread Ben Goertzel
KIF would be a highly practical lingua franca Lojban would work fine too I agree that using English to interface btw modules of an AGI system seems suboptimal... I am glad that the different components of my brain don't need to communicate using English ;-_) Ben Jey Kottalam wrote: On

Re: [agi] Fwd: Numenta Newsletter: March 20, 2007

2007-03-20 Thread Ben Goertzel
Kevin Cramer wrote: I tested this and it is very very poor at invariant recognition. I am surprised they released this given how bad it actually is. As an example I drew a small A in the bottom left corner of their draw area. The program returns the top 5 guesses on what you drew. The letter

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-19 Thread Ben Goertzel
rooftop8000 wrote: Hi, I've been thinking for a bit about how a big collaboration AI project could work. I browsed the archives and i see you guys have similar ideas I'd love to see someone build a system that is capable of adding any kind of AI algorithm/idea to. It should unite the power

Re: [agi] Emergence

2007-03-19 Thread Ben Goertzel
G Russell Wallace wrote: On 3/19/07, *Ben Goertzel* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Minsky is not big on emergence This is an interesting point. I'm not big on emergence, not in artificial systems anyway. It produced us, sure, but that's one planet with intelligence out

Re: [agi] structure of the mind

2007-03-19 Thread Ben Goertzel
J. Storrs Hall, PhD. wrote: On Monday 19 March 2007 17:30, Ben Goertzel wrote: ... My own view these days is that a wild combination of agents is probably not the right approach, in terms of building AGI. Novamente consists of a set of agents that have been very carefully sculpted to work

Re: [agi] Emergence

2007-03-19 Thread Ben Goertzel
Russell Wallace wrote: On 3/19/07, *Ben Goertzel* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: According to the above definition, it is quite possible to engineer systems with emergent properties, and to prove things about the constraints on emergent system properties as well

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