[agi] Robert Hecht-Nielsen's stuff

2003-07-19 Thread Shane Legg
A while back Rob Sperry posted a link to a video of a presentation by Robert Hecht-Nielsen. ( http://inc2.ucsd.edu/inc_videos/ ) In it he claims to have worked out how the brain thinks :) I didn't look at it at the time as it's 150MB+ and only had a dial up account, but checked it out the other

Re: [agi] Robert Hecht-Nielsen's stuff

2003-07-19 Thread Brad Wyble
Well the short gist of this guy's spiel is that Lenat is on the right track. The key is to accumulate terabytes of stupid, temporally forward associations between elements. A little background check reveals that this guy isn't a complete nutcase. He's got some publications (but not many),

RE: [agi] Educating an AI in a simulated world

2003-07-19 Thread Philip Sutton
Hi Ben, If Novababies are going to play and learn in a simulated world which is most likely based on an agent-based/object-orientated programming foundation, would it be useful for the basic Novamente to have prebuilt capacity for agent-based modelling? Would this in be necessary if a

RE: [agi] Educating an AI in a simulated world

2003-07-19 Thread Ben Goertzel
Hi, This kind of built-in capability certainly isn't *necessary* but it might be useful. This kind of issue is definitely worth exploring... More thoughts later ;-) ben -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Philip Sutton Sent: Saturday, July

Re: [agi] Robert Hecht-Nielsen's stuff

2003-07-19 Thread Shane Legg
Brad Wyble wrote: Well the short gist of this guy's spiel is that Lenat is on the right track. My understanding was that he argues that Lenat is on the wrong track! Lenat is trying to accumulate a large body of relatively high level logical rules about the world. This is very hard to do and

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2003-07-19 Thread williamrussellmorley
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