Re: Yawn. More definitions of intelligence? [WAS Re: [agi] Ben's Definition of Intelligence]

2008-01-14 Thread Mike Dougherty
On Jan 14, 2008 10:10 AM, Richard Loosemore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any fool can mathematize a definition of a commonsense idea without > actually saying anything new. Ouch. Careful. :) That may be true, but it takes $10M worth of computer hardware to disprove. disclaimer: that was humor

Re: Yawn. More definitions of intelligence? [WAS Re: [agi] Ben's Definition of Intelligence]

2008-01-14 Thread Mike Tintner
I heavily agree with you, Richard. But perhaps the Hutter exercise has some value - simply by way of making us question the validity of any mathematical approach to intelligence. Well, there IS some value, (although BTW, at a glance they don't seem to recognize that IQ is not even a direct me

Re: Yawn. More definitions of intelligence? [WAS Re: [agi] Ben's Definition of Intelligence]

2008-01-14 Thread Richard Loosemore
Benjamin Goertzel wrote: Your job is to be diplomatic. Mine is to call a spade a spade. ;-) Richard Loosemore I would rephrase it like this: Your job is to make me look diplomatic ;-p I agree: I am undiplomatic and unreasonable. "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreas

Re: Yawn. More definitions of intelligence? [WAS Re: [agi] Ben's Definition of Intelligence]

2008-01-14 Thread Benjamin Goertzel
> Your job is to be diplomatic. Mine is to call a spade a spade. ;-) > > > Richard Loosemore I would rephrase it like this: Your job is to make me look diplomatic ;-p - This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.

Re: Yawn. More definitions of intelligence? [WAS Re: [agi] Ben's Definition of Intelligence]

2008-01-14 Thread Richard Loosemore
Benjamin Goertzel wrote: Richard, I don't think Shane and Marcus's overview of definitions-of-intelligence is "poor quality". I'll explain why I said "poor quality". In my experience of marking student essays, there is a stereotype of the "night before deadline" essay, which goes like this.

Re: Yawn. More definitions of intelligence? [WAS Re: [agi] Ben's Definition of Intelligence]

2008-01-14 Thread Benjamin Goertzel
Richard, I don't think Shane and Marcus's overview of definitions-of-intelligence is "poor quality". I think it is just doing something different than what you think it should be doing. The overview is exactly that: A review of what researchers have said about the definition of intelligence. Th

Re: Yawn. More definitions of intelligence? [WAS Re: [agi] Ben's Definition of Intelligence]

2008-01-14 Thread Richard Loosemore
Pei Wang wrote: On Jan 13, 2008 7:40 PM, Richard Loosemore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: And, as I indicated, my particular beef was with Shane Legg's paper, which I found singularly content-free. Shane Legg and Marcus Hutter have a recent publication on this topic, http://www.springerlink.c

Re: Yawn. More definitions of intelligence? [WAS Re: [agi] Ben's Definition of Intelligence]

2008-01-13 Thread Pei Wang
On Jan 13, 2008 7:40 PM, Richard Loosemore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And, as I indicated, my particular beef was with Shane Legg's paper, > which I found singularly content-free. Shane Legg and Marcus Hutter have a recent publication on this topic, http://www.springerlink.com/content/jm815

Re: Yawn. More definitions of intelligence? [WAS Re: [agi] Ben's Definition of Intelligence]

2008-01-13 Thread Richard Loosemore
Pei Wang wrote: On Jan 12, 2008 3:04 PM, Richard Loosemore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Every time a dispute erupts about what the real definition of "intelligence" is, all we really get is noise, because nobody is clear about the role that the definition is supposed to play. Richard, I fully u

Re: Yawn. More definitions of intelligence? [WAS Re: [agi] Ben's Definition of Intelligence]

2008-01-12 Thread William Pearson
On 12/01/2008, Richard Loosemore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Every time a dispute erupts about what the real definition of > "intelligence" is, all we really get is noise, because nobody is clear > about the role that the definition is supposed to play. > > If the role is to distinguish Narrow A

Re: Yawn. More definitions of intelligence? [WAS Re: [agi] Ben's Definition of Intelligence]

2008-01-12 Thread Pei Wang
On Jan 12, 2008 3:04 PM, Richard Loosemore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Every time a dispute erupts about what the real definition of > "intelligence" is, all we really get is noise, because nobody is clear > about the role that the definition is supposed to play. Richard, I fully understand ho

Yawn. More definitions of intelligence? [WAS Re: [agi] Ben's Definition of Intelligence]

2008-01-12 Thread Richard Loosemore
Every time a dispute erupts about what the real definition of "intelligence" is, all we really get is noise, because nobody is clear about the role that the definition is supposed to play. If the role is to distinguish Narrow AI from AGI, Ben's definition is fine. If the role is to define a

Re: [agi] Ben's Definition of Intelligence

2008-01-12 Thread Benjamin Goertzel
On definitions of intelligence, the canonical reference is http://www.vetta.org/shane/intelligence.html which lists 71 definitions. Apologies if someone already pointed out Shane's page in this thread, I didn't read every message carefully. > An AGI definition of intelligence surely has, by def

Re: [agi] Ben's Definition of Intelligence

2008-01-12 Thread Kaj Sotala
On 1/12/08, Mike Tintner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "The primary motivation behind the Novamente AI Engine > is to build a system that can achieve complex goals in > complex environments, a synopsis of the definition of intelligence > given in (Goertzel 1993). The emphasis is on the This is not

[agi] Ben's Definition of Intelligence

2008-01-12 Thread Mike Tintner
Just rereading & had to post that I suddenly realised that while your definition of intelligence is confusing, your basic meaning is fine: "The primary motivation behind the Novamente AI Engine is to build a system that can achieve complex goals in complex environments, a synopsis of the definit