Re: [agi] NARS and Oscar [was: Commercial AGI ventures]

2002-11-05 Thread Pei Wang
I studied OSCAR years ago, but haven't followed it closely. Simply speaking, both OSCAR and NARS are "logic-based" approaches, and their major difference is that OSCAR stays much closer to traditional mathematical logic (in terms of formal language, semantics, rules, control mechanism, and so on).

Re: [agi] Inventory of AGI projects

2002-11-05 Thread shane legg
I think the key fact is that most of these projects are currently relatively inactive --- plenty of passion out there, just not a lot of resources. The last I heard both the HAL project and the CAM-brain project where pretty much at a stand still due to lack of funding? Perhaps a good piece of

[agi] NARS and Oscar [was: Commercial AGI ventures]

2002-11-05 Thread Ben Goertzel
Pei, I've been reading thru some of the papers on the OSCAR site, > > http://oscarhome.soc-sci.arizona.edu/ftp/OSCAR-web-page/OSCAR.htm > The general cognitive architecture Pollock proposes there seems reasonable, although I feel it's very incomplete, focusing exclusively on logical inference a

RE: [agi] RE: Ethical drift

2002-11-05 Thread Ben Goertzel
David Noziglia wrote: > It is a common belief that game theory has shown that it is > advantageous to > be selfish and nasty. I assume that the members of this group > know that is > wrong, that game theory has in fact shown that in a situation of repeated > interaction, it is more advantageous

Re: [agi] RE: Ethical drift

2002-11-05 Thread C. David Noziglia
C. David Noziglia Object Sciences Corporation 6359 Walker Lane, Alexandria, VA (703) 253-1095 "What is true and what is not? Only God knows. And, maybe, America." Dr. Khaled M. Batarfi, Special to Arab News "Just because something is obvious doesn't mean

RE: [agi] Commercial AGI ventures

2002-11-05 Thread Ben Goertzel
Pei, Your criteria are more stringent than mine, but your list was made with a similar idea in mind I'm not making restrictions about the number of years a project has been in existence, for example. It appears the only thing on your list that I missed is the OSCAR project *** http://osca

[agi] Inventory of AGI projects

2002-11-05 Thread Ben Goertzel
Hi, Inspired by a recent post, here is my attempt at a list of "serious AGI projects" underway on the planet at this time. If anyone knows of anything that should be added to this list, please let me know. . Novamente ... · Pei Wang’s NARS system · Peter Voss’s A2I2 pro

Re: [agi] Commercial AGI ventures

2002-11-05 Thread Pei Wang
I have a list at http://www.cis.temple.edu/~pwang/203-AI/Lecture/203-1126.htm, including projects satisfying the following three standards: a.. Each of them has the plan to eventually grow into a "thinking machine" or "artificial general intelligence" (so it is not merely about part of AI); b..