RE: [agi] A point of philosophy, rather than engineering

2002-11-13 Thread Ben Goertzel
Arthur Murray wrote: If Ben Goertzel and the rest of the Novamente team build up an AI that mathematically comprehends mountains of data, they may miss the AI boat by not creating persistent concepts that accrete and auto-prune over time as the basis of NLP. No, even before the Novamente

Re: [agi] A point of philosophy, rather than engineering

2002-11-12 Thread Charles Hixson
Ben Goertzel wrote: Hi, Personally, I believe that the most effective AI will have a core general intelligence, that may be rather primitive, and a huge number of specialized intelligence modules. The tricky part of this architecture is designing the various modules so that they can

RE: [agi] A point of philosophy, rather than engineering

2002-11-12 Thread Ben Goertzel
Charles Hixson wrote (in response to me): -- create a flexible knowledge representation (KR) useful for representing all forms of knowledge (declarative, procedural, perceptual, abstract, linguistic, explicit, implicit, etc. etc.) This probably won't work. Thinking of the brain as a

RE: [agi] A point of philosophy, rather than engineering

2002-11-12 Thread Arthur T. Murray
On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, Ben Goertzel wrote: Charles Hixson wrote (in response to me): [...] May I suggest that if you are even close to what you are attempting, that you have the start of a dandy personal secretary. With so much correspondence coming via e-mail these days, this would create

Re: [agi] A point of philosophy, rather than engineering

2002-11-11 Thread Charles Hixson
The problem with a truly general intelligence is that the search spaces are too large. So one uses specializing hueristics to cut down the amount of search space. This does, however, inevitably remove a piece of the generality. The benefit is that you can answer more complicated questions

Re: [agi] A point of philosophy, rather than engineering

2002-11-11 Thread James Rogers
On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 14:11, Charles Hixson wrote: Personally, I believe that the most effective AI will have a core general intelligence, that may be rather primitive, and a huge number of specialized intelligence modules. The tricky part of this architecture is designing the various