Re: [agi] Comments from a lurker...

2008-04-17 Thread Steve Richfield
Mark, On 4/16/08, Mark Waser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: True, but this is inherent with ALL less than perfectly understood systems and is not in any way peculiar to Dr. Eliza. Extrapolations are inherently hazardous, sometimes without reasonable limit. Correct. Part of the point to AGI is

Re: [agi] Comments from a lurker...

2008-04-16 Thread Benjamin Johnston
Steve Richfield said (regarding his Dr Eliza system): I cannot see ANY argument that it is NOT novel AI. Certainly no one expressed any such doubts at the WORLDCOMP conferences where it was presented and demonstrated. Maybe, but WORLDCOMP doesn't appear to be a particularly serious

Re: [agi] Comments from a lurker...

2008-04-16 Thread Steve Richfield
Ben, On 4/16/08, Benjamin Johnston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Richfield said (regarding his Dr Eliza system): I cannot see ANY argument that it is NOT novel AI. Certainly no one expressed any such doubts at the WORLDCOMP conferences where it was presented and demonstrated. Maybe,

Re: [agi] Comments from a lurker...

2008-04-16 Thread Brad Paulsen
! Cheers, Brad - Original Message - From: Steve Richfield To: agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 3:28 PM Subject: Re: [agi] Comments from a lurker... Josh, On 4/15/08, J Storrs Hall, PhD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 14 April 2008 04:56:18 am

Re: [agi] Comments from a lurker...

2008-04-16 Thread Vladimir Nesov
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 11:31 AM, Steve Richfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been discussing this in depth with Mark. I suggest lurking and jumping in at the end if you disagree with Mark's handling. In a nutshell, as I see it, the fundamental departure is in the cause-and-effect chain

Re: [agi] Comments from a lurker...

2008-04-16 Thread Mark Waser
True, but this is inherent with ALL less than perfectly understood systems and is not in any way peculiar to Dr. Eliza. Extrapolations are inherently hazardous, sometimes without reasonable limit. Correct. Part of the point to AGI is to automatically create knowledge bases that are as

Re: [agi] Comments from a lurker...

2008-04-15 Thread Mark Waser
.listbox.com Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 4:17 PM Subject: Re: [agi] Comments from a lurker... Mark, On 4/14/08, Mark Waser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Perhaps you can relate your own experiences in this area. Argument from Authority . . . . but what the heck

Re: [agi] Comments from a lurker...

2008-04-15 Thread J Storrs Hall, PhD
On Monday 14 April 2008 04:56:18 am, Steve Richfield wrote: ... My present efforts are now directed toward a new computer architecture that may be more of interest to AGI types here than Dr. Eliza. This new architecture should be able to build new PC internals for about the same cost, using

Re: [agi] Comments from a lurker...

2008-04-15 Thread Steve Richfield
Josh, On 4/15/08, J Storrs Hall, PhD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 14 April 2008 04:56:18 am, Steve Richfield wrote: ... My present efforts are now directed toward a new computer architecture that may be more of interest to AGI types here than Dr. Eliza. This new architecture

Re: [agi] Comments from a lurker...

2008-04-15 Thread Charles D Hixson
J Storrs Hall, PhD wrote: ... The third mistake is to forget that nobody knows how to program SIMD. They can't even get programmers to adopt functional programming, for god's sake; the only thing the average programmer can think in is BASIC, or C which is essentially machine-independent

Re: [agi] Comments from a lurker...

2008-04-14 Thread Mark Waser
Steve Perhaps you can relate your own experiences in this area. Argument from Authority . . . . but what the heck . . . . :-) Earliest scientific computing papers (one from the science side, one from the computing side) Computer Modeling of Muscle Phosphofructokinase Kinetics Journal of

Re: [agi] Comments from a lurker...

2008-04-14 Thread Mark Waser
on the same box OR (as proposed before) multiple linked boxes. - Original Message - From: Mark Waser To: agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 10:48 AM Subject: Re: [agi] Comments from a lurker... Steve Perhaps you can relate your own experiences in this area

Re: [agi] Comments from a lurker...

2008-04-14 Thread Mark Waser
ROTFLMAO! Excellent! Thank you. - Original Message - From: Steve Richfield To: agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2008 6:09 PM Subject: Re: [agi] Comments from a lurker... Mark, On 4/13/08, Mark Waser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I then asked if anyone

Re: [agi] Comments from a lurker...

2008-04-14 Thread Matt Mahoney
--- Steve Richfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why go to all that work?! I have attached the *populated* Knowledge.mdb file that contains the knowledge that powers the chronic illness demo of Dr. Eliza. To easily view it, just make sure that any version of MS Access is installed on your

Re: [agi] Comments from a lurker...

2008-04-14 Thread Mike Dougherty
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 4:17 PM, Steve Richfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You've merely been a *TROLL* and gotten the appropriate response. Thanks for playing but we have no parting gifts for you. Who is the we you are referencing? Do you have a mouse in your pocket, or is that the Royal

Re: [agi] Comments from a lurker...

2008-04-14 Thread Steve Richfield
Mike, On 4/14/08, Mike Dougherty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have little interest in downloading your software and tables and arcane howto for making it all work. In my opinion, you really can't call your product AGI until I can converse with it directly - either via it's own email address

Re: [agi] Comments from a lurker...

2008-04-13 Thread Mark Waser
To: agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Saturday, April 12, 2008 1:53 AM Subject: Re: [agi] Comments from a lurker... Vladimir, On 4/11/08, Vladimir Nesov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hence, simulational System Dynamics must be confined to systems whose

Re: [agi] Comments from a lurker...

2008-04-13 Thread Steve Richfield
Mike, On 4/12/08, Mike Tintner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve:If you've got a messy real-world problem, you know little, if you have an algorithm giving the solution, you know all. This is the bit where, like most, you skip over the nature of AGI - messy real-world problems. What you're

Re: [agi] Comments from a lurker...

2008-04-13 Thread Steve Richfield
Josh, On 4/12/08, J Storrs Hall, PhD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 11 April 2008 03:17:21 pm, Steve Richfield wrote: Steve: If you're saying that your system builds a model of its world of discourse as a set of non-linear ODEs (which is what Systems Dynamics is bout) then I (and

Re: [agi] Comments from a lurker...

2008-04-13 Thread Steve Richfield
*Sent:* Sunday, April 13, 2008 4:12 PM *Subject:* Re: [agi] Comments from a lurker... Mark, On 4/12/08, Mark Waser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So . . . . are you willing to immediately release your current Dr. Eliza code to Open Source and let us see it and help humanity together? Most

Re: [agi] Comments from a lurker...

2008-04-13 Thread Steve Richfield
when you finally wake up as discussed above. Steve Richfield == - Original Message - *From:* Steve Richfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] *To:* agi@v2.listbox.com *Sent:* Sunday, April 13, 2008 4:42 PM *Subject:* Re: [agi] Comments from a lurker... Mike, On 4/12/08, Mike

Re: [agi] Comments from a lurker...

2008-04-13 Thread James Hill
*Sent:* Saturday, April 12, 2008 1:53 AM *Subject:* Re: [agi] Comments from a lurker... Vladimir, On 4/11/08, Vladimir Nesov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hence, simulational System Dynamics must be confined to systems whose operation can be observed or instrumented

Re: [agi] Comments from a lurker...

2008-04-13 Thread Benjamin Johnston
Hi Steve, I've read the papers you've posted on this list, and looked at your Access database... Text-to-speech, speech-to-text and the simple textual preprocessing can enhance usability, but they tend to make a system *appear* more intelligent rather than adding real depth to a system. So

Re: [agi] Comments from a lurker...

2008-04-12 Thread Steve Richfield
Vladimir, On 4/11/08, Vladimir Nesov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hence, simulational System Dynamics must be confined to systems whose operation can be observed or instrumented. Unfortunately, this lets out most of the REALLY important real-world problems, especially medicine, from

Re: [agi] Comments from a lurker...

2008-04-12 Thread J Storrs Hall, PhD
On Friday 11 April 2008 03:17:21 pm, Steve Richfield wrote: Steve: If you're saying that your system builds a model of its world of discourse as a set of non-linear ODEs (which is what Systems Dynamics is bout) then I (and presumably Richard) are much more likely to be interested... No

Re: [agi] Comments from a lurker...

2008-04-12 Thread Mike Tintner
Steve:If you've got a messy real-world problem, you know little, if you have an algorithm giving the solution, you know all. This is the bit where, like most, you skip over the nature of AGI - messy real-world problems. What you're saying is: hey if you've got a messy problem, it's great, nay

Re: [agi] Comments from a lurker...

2008-04-12 Thread Mark Waser
So . . . . are you willing to immediately release your current Dr. Eliza code to Open Source and let us see it and help humanity together? - Original Message - From: Steve Richfield To: agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Saturday, April 12, 2008 1:53 AM Subject: Re: [agi] Comments from

Re: [agi] Comments from a lurker...

2008-04-11 Thread J Storrs Hall, PhD
On Friday 11 April 2008 01:59:42 am, Steve Richfield wrote: Your experience with the medical community is not too surprising: I believe that the Expert Systems folks had similar troubles way back when. IMO the Expert Systems people deserved bad treatment! Actually, the medical expert

Re: [agi] Comments from a lurker...

2008-04-11 Thread Steve Richfield
Josh, On 4/11/08, J Storrs Hall, PhD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, the medical expert systems of the 80s I had any conection with, such as the glaucoma expert from Rutgers, beat out human doctors in diagnoses within their field of expertise. (And still weren't adopted...) Yes. There

Re: [agi] Comments from a lurker...

2008-04-11 Thread Vladimir Nesov
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 11:17 PM, Steve Richfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve: If you're saying that your system builds a model of its world of discourse as a set of non-linear ODEs (which is what Systems Dynamics is bout) then I (and presumably Richard) are much more likely to be

[agi] Comments from a lurker...

2008-04-10 Thread Steve Richfield
Hi there, I am coming at AGI from an apparently unique perspective. Back in 2001 I contracted an incurable illness (idiopathic atrial fibrillation). Having been involved in a couple of medical research projects in the long distant past, I simply took this as another project and dived in to find a

Re: [agi] Comments from a lurker...

2008-04-10 Thread Stephen Reed
- Original Message From: Steve Richfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 2:58:09 PM Subject: [agi] Comments from a lurker... [snip] BTW, the principles behind Dr. Eliza are rather unique. I'd be glad to send some papers to anyone who

Re: [agi] Comments from a lurker...

2008-04-10 Thread Abram Demski
hope that term isn't taken as derogatory). On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 4:39 PM, Stephen Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message From: Steve Richfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 2:58:09 PM Subject: [agi] Comments from a lurker

Re: [agi] Comments from a lurker...

2008-04-10 Thread Bob Mottram
Richfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 2:58:09 PM Subject: [agi] Comments from a lurker... [snip] BTW, the principles behind Dr. Eliza are rather unique. I'd be glad to send some papers to anyone who is interested. Briefly, Joe

Re: [agi] Comments from a lurker...

2008-04-10 Thread Richard Loosemore
Steve Richfield wrote: Hi there, I am coming at AGI from an apparently unique perspective. Back in 2001 I contracted an incurable illness (idiopathic atrial fibrillation). Having been involved in a couple of medical research projects in the long distant past, I simply took this as another

Re: [agi] Comments from a lurker...

2008-04-10 Thread Steve Richfield
Stephen, On 4/10/08, Stephen Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message From: Steve Richfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 2:58:09 PM Subject: [agi] Comments from a lurker... [snip] BTW, the principles behind Dr. Eliza

Re: [agi] Comments from a lurker...

2008-04-10 Thread Richard Loosemore
Steve Richfield wrote: Abram, On 4/10/08, *Abram Demski* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd be interested in looking at a paper. How are papers handled on this forum? Do I post it as an attachment, or just send it to you? What is the netiquette here? However,