Re: [agi] Intelligence: a pattern discovery algorithm of scalable complexity.

2008-03-31 Thread a
This are just some controversial tips/inspirations: Warning: Don't read it if you do not believe that sensory and AGI go together or if you are skeptical. Just ignore it. What to detect? detect inregulaties and store them analysis complexity structure evolution memorization is about memoris

Re: [agi] Intelligence: a pattern discovery algorithm of scalable complexity.

2008-03-30 Thread Boris Kazachenko
It seems like a reasonable and not uncommon idea that an AI could be built as a mostly-hierarchical autoassiciative memory. As you point out, it's not so different from Hawkins's ideas. Neighboring "pixels" will correlate in space and time; "features" such as edges should become principle c

Re: [agi] Intelligence: a pattern discovery algorithm of scalable complexity.

2008-03-30 Thread Boris Kazachenko
I'm going to attack you by questions again :-) You're more than welcome to, sorry for being brisk. I did reply about RSS on the blog, but for some reason the post never made it through. I don't how RSS works, but you can subscribe via bloglines.com. What are 'range' and 'complexity'? Is ther

Re: [agi] Intelligence: a pattern discovery algorithm of scalable complexity.

2008-03-30 Thread Mark Waser
From: "Kingma, D.P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Agreed with that, exact compression is not the way to go if you ask me. But that doesn't mean any lossy method is OK. Converting a scene to vector graphics will lead you to throwing away much visual information early in the process: visual information (e.g

Re: [agi] Intelligence: a pattern discovery algorithm of scalable complexity.

2008-03-30 Thread Mark Waser
From: "Kingma, D.P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Okay, with "text", I mean "natural language", in it's usual low-bandwidth form. That should clarify my statement. Any data can be represented with text of course, but that's not the point... The point that I was trying to make is that natural language is t

Re: [agi] Intelligence: a pattern discovery algorithm of scalable complexity.

2008-03-30 Thread Kingma, D.P.
(Sorry for triple posting...) On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 11:34 PM, William Pearson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 30/03/2008, Kingma, D.P. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Intelligence is not *only* about the modalities of the data you get, > > but modalities are certainly important. A deafblind

Re: [agi] Intelligence: a pattern discovery algorithm of scalable complexity.

2008-03-30 Thread Kingma, D.P.
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 11:00 PM, Mark Waser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: "Kingma, D.P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Vector graphics can indeed be communicated to an AGI by relatively > > low-bandwidth textual input. But, unfortunately, > > the physical world is not made of vector graphics, s

Re: [agi] Intelligence: a pattern discovery algorithm of scalable complexity.

2008-03-30 Thread Kingma, D.P.
Okay, with "text", I mean "natural language", in it's usual low-bandwidth form. That should clarify my statement. Any data can be represented with text of course, but that's not the point... The point that I was trying to make is that natural language is too low-bandwidth to provide sufficient data

Re: [agi] Intelligence: a pattern discovery algorithm of scalable complexity.

2008-03-30 Thread William Pearson
On 30/03/2008, Kingma, D.P. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Intelligence is not *only* about the modalities of the data you get, > but modalities are certainly important. A deafblind person can still > learn a lot about the world with taste, smell, and touch, but the > senses one has access to def

Re: [agi] Intelligence: a pattern discovery algorithm of scalable complexity.

2008-03-30 Thread Mark Waser
riginal Message - From: Derek Zahn To: agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2008 5:13 PM Subject: RE: [agi] Intelligence: a pattern discovery algorithm of scalable complexity. Mark Waser writes: >> True enough, that is one answer: "by hand-crafting

RE: [agi] Intelligence: a pattern discovery algorithm of scalable complexity.

2008-03-30 Thread Derek Zahn
Mark Waser writes: >> True enough, that is one answer: "by hand-crafting the symbols and >> the >> mechanics for instantiating them from subsymbolic structures". >> We of >> course hope for better than this but perhaps generalizing these >> working >> systems is a practical approach. > Um.

Re: [agi] Intelligence: a pattern discovery algorithm of scalable complexity.

2008-03-30 Thread Mark Waser
From: "Kingma, D.P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Vector graphics can indeed be communicated to an AGI by relatively low-bandwidth textual input. But, unfortunately, the physical world is not made of vector graphics, so reducing the physical world to vector graphics is quite lossy (and computationally exp

Re: [agi] Intelligence: a pattern discovery algorithm of scalable complexity.

2008-03-30 Thread Mark Waser
From: "Kingma, D.P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sure, you could argue that an intelligence purely based on text, disconnected from the physical world, could be intelligent, but it would have a very hard time reasoning about interaction of entities in the physicial world. It would be unable to understand

Re: [agi] Intelligence: a pattern discovery algorithm of scalable complexity.

2008-03-30 Thread Mark Waser
> True enough, that is one answer: "by hand-crafting the symbols and the > mechanics for instantiating them from subsymbolic structures". We of course > hope for better than this but perhaps generalizing these working systems is a > practical approach. Um. That is what is known as the ground

Re: [agi] Intelligence: a pattern discovery algorithm of scalable complexity.

2008-03-30 Thread Vladimir Nesov
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 12:21 AM, Kingma, D.P. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alright, agreed with all you say. If I understood correctly, your > system (at the moment) assumes scene descriptions at a level higher > than pixels, but certainly lower than objects. An application of such > system see

Re: [agi] Intelligence: a pattern discovery algorithm of scalable complexity.

2008-03-30 Thread Kingma, D.P.
Alright, agreed with all you say. If I understood correctly, your system (at the moment) assumes scene descriptions at a level higher than pixels, but certainly lower than objects. An application of such system seems be a simulated, virtual world where such descriptions are at hand... Is this indee

Re: [agi] Intelligence: a pattern discovery algorithm of scalable complexity.

2008-03-30 Thread Vladimir Nesov
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 11:33 PM, Kingma, D.P. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Vector graphics can indeed be communicated to an AGI by relatively > low-bandwidth textual input. But, unfortunately, > the physical world is not made of vector graphics, so reducing the > physical world to vector gra

Re: [agi] Intelligence: a pattern discovery algorithm of scalable complexity.

2008-03-30 Thread Kingma, D.P.
Vladimir, I agree with you on many issues, but... On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 9:03 PM, Vladimir Nesov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This way, for example, it should be possible to teach a 'modality' for > understanding simple graphs encoded as text, so that on one hand > text-based input is sufficie

Re: [agi] Intelligence: a pattern discovery algorithm of scalable complexity.

2008-03-30 Thread Vladimir Nesov
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 10:16 PM, Kingma, D.P. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Intelligence is not *only* about the modalities of the data you get, > but modalities are certainly important. A deafblind person can still > learn a lot about the world with taste, smell, and touch, but the > senses

Re: [agi] Intelligence: a pattern discovery algorithm of scalable complexity.

2008-03-30 Thread Kingma, D.P.
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 6:48 PM, William Pearson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 30/03/2008, Kingma, D.P. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > An audiovisual perception layer generates semantic interpretation on the > > (sub)symbolic level. How could a symbolic engine ever reason about the real > > wor

Re: [agi] Intelligence: a pattern discovery algorithm of scalable complexity.

2008-03-30 Thread Kingma, D.P.
Mike, you seem to have misinterpreted my statement. Perception is certainly not 'passive', as it can be described as active inference using a (mostly actively) learned world model. Inference is done on many levels, and could integrate information from various abstraction levels, so I don't see it a

RE: [agi] Intelligence: a pattern discovery algorithm of scalable complexity.

2008-03-30 Thread Derek Zahn
Stephen Reed writes: >> How could a symbolic engine ever reason about the real world *with* access >> to such information? > I hope my work eventually demonstrates a solution to your satisfaction. Me too! > In the meantime there is evidence from robotics, specifically driverless > car

Re: [agi] Intelligence: a pattern discovery algorithm of scalable complexity.

2008-03-30 Thread Mike Tintner
Durk, Absolutely right about the need for what is essentially an imaginative level of mind. But wrong in thinking: "Vision may be classified under "Narrow" AI" You seem to be treating this extra "audiovisual perception layer" as a purely passive layer. The latest psychology & philosophy recogn

Re: [agi] Intelligence: a pattern discovery algorithm of scalable complexity.

2008-03-30 Thread Stephen Reed
gt; To: agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2008 11:21:52 AM Subject: RE: [agi] Intelligence: a pattern discovery algorithm of scalable complexity. .hmmessage P { margin:0px;padding:0px;} body.hmmessage { FONT-SIZE:10pt;FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma;} [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > But it

Re: [agi] Intelligence: a pattern discovery algorithm of scalable complexity.

2008-03-30 Thread William Pearson
On 30/03/2008, Kingma, D.P. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Although I symphathize with some of Hawkin's general ideas about unsupervised >learning, his current HTM framework is unimpressive in comparison with >state-of-the-art techniques such as Hinton's RBM's, LeCun's convolutional nets >and the pro

RE: [agi] Intelligence: a pattern discovery algorithm of scalable complexity.

2008-03-30 Thread Derek Zahn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > But it should be quite clear that such methods could eventually be very handy > for AGI. I agree with your post 100%, this type of approach is the most interesting AGI-related stuff to me. > An audiovisual perception layer generates semantic interpretation on the

Re: [agi] Intelligence: a pattern discovery algorithm of scalable complexity.

2008-03-30 Thread Vladimir Nesov
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 7:23 PM, Kingma, D.P. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Although I symphathize with some of Hawkin's general ideas about > unsupervised learning, his current HTM framework is unimpressive in > comparison with state-of-the-art techniques such as Hinton's RBM's, LeCun's > convolu

Re: [agi] Intelligence: a pattern discovery algorithm of scalable complexity.

2008-03-30 Thread Kingma, D.P.
Although I symphathize with some of Hawkin's general ideas about unsupervised learning, his current HTM framework is unimpressive in comparison with state-of-the-art techniques such as Hinton's RBM's, LeCun's convolutional nets and the promising low-entropy coding variants. But it should be quite

RE: [agi] Intelligence: a pattern discovery algorithm of scalable complexity.

2008-03-30 Thread Derek Zahn
It seems like a reasonable and not uncommon idea that an AI could be built as a mostly-hierarchical autoassiciative memory. As you point out, it's not so different from Hawkins's ideas. Neighboring "pixels" will correlate in space and time; "features" such as edges should become principle comp

Re: [agi] Intelligence: a pattern discovery algorithm of scalable complexity.

2008-03-30 Thread Vladimir Nesov
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 5:12 PM, Boris Kazachenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What is it that your system tries to predict? Does it predict only > > specific terminal inputs, values on the ends of its sensors? Or > > something else? When does prediction occur? > > What is this prediction f

Re: [agi] Intelligence: a pattern discovery algorithm of scalable complexity.

2008-03-30 Thread Boris Kazachenko
Hello Boris, and welcome to the list. Thanks Vladimir, I actually posted a few times a while back. Don't do it often because of the "mindset" problem I mentioned in my blog :). http://scalable-intelligence.blogspot.com/ I didn't understand your algorithm, you use many terms that you didn't d

Re: [agi] Intelligence: a pattern discovery algorithm of scalable complexity.

2008-03-30 Thread Vladimir Nesov
Hello Boris, and welcome to the list. I didn't understand your algorithm, you use many terms that you didn't define. It probably would be clearer if you use some kind of pseudocode and systematically describe all occurring procedures. But I think more fundamental questions that need clarifying won