[agi] Mechanical Analogy for Neural Operation!

2010-07-12 Thread Steve Richfield
Everyone has heard about the water analogy for electrical operation. I have a mechanical analogy for neural operation that just might be solid enough to compute at least some characteristics optimally. No, I am NOT proposing building mechanical contraptions, just using the concept to compute

Re: [agi] New KurzweilAI.net site... with my silly article sillier chatbot ;-p ;) ....

2010-07-12 Thread The Wizard
Have you guys talked to the army's artificial intelligence chat bot yet? http://sgtstar.goarmy.com/ActiveAgentUI/Welcome.aspx nothing really special other than the voice sounds really natural.. http://sgtstar.goarmy.com/ActiveAgentUI/Welcome.aspx On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 11:09 PM, Mike Archbold

Re: [agi] Mechanical Analogy for Neural Operation!

2010-07-12 Thread Mike Tintner
One tangential comment. You're still thinking linearly. Machines are linear chains of parts. Cause-and-effect thinking made flesh/metal. With organisms, however you have whole webs of parts acting more or less simultaneously. We will probably need to bring that organic thinking/framework -

Re: [agi] Mechanical Analogy for Neural Operation!

2010-07-12 Thread Matt Mahoney
Steve Richfield wrote: No, I am NOT proposing building mechanical contraptions, just using the concept to compute neuronal characteristics (or AGI formulas for learning). Funny you should mention that. Ross Ashby actually built such a device in 1948 called a homeostat (

[agi] Cash in on robots

2010-07-12 Thread Mike Tintner
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Re: [agi] Re: Huge Progress on the Core of AGI

2010-07-12 Thread Abram Demski
David, I tend to think of probability theory and statistics as different things. I'd agree that statistics is not enough for AGI, but in contrast I think probability theory is a pretty good foundation. Bayesianism to me provides a sound way of integrating the elegance/utility tradeoff of

RE: [agi] New KurzweilAI.net site... with my silly article sillier chatbot ;-p ;) ....

2010-07-12 Thread John G. Rose
These video/rendered chatbots have huge potential and will be taken in many different directions. They are gradually over time approaching a p-zombie-esque situation. They add multi-modal communication - body/facial language/expression and prosody. So even if the text alone is not too good

Re: [agi] Mechanical Analogy for Neural Operation!

2010-07-12 Thread Michael Swan
Hi, I pretty much always think of a NN as a physical device. I think the first binary computer was dreamt up with balls going through the system with ball representing 1's and 0's. The idea was written down but never built. Jamming balls that give way at a certain point is the same as using .

[agi] What is the smallest set of operations that can potentially define everything and how do you combine them ?

2010-07-12 Thread Michael Swan
Hi, I'm interested in combining the simplest, most derivable operations ( eg operations that cannot be defined by other operations) for creating seed AGI's. The simplest operations combined in a multitude ways can form extremely complex patterns, but the underlying logic may be simple. I wonder