Re: [agi] Google as a strong AI

2005-03-15 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 09:31:14PM -0500, Dennis Gorelik wrote: Eugen, 1) Google uses relatively simple algorithms. But it does a lot of data mining (because of volume). This is pure semantics. Let's agree to disagree. 2) Over 99% of intelligence of any human being came from other people

Re: [agi] RE: Lojban and AI

2005-03-15 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 01:37:16AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If we cannot learn some messy alien language quickly then it IMO definitely does not mean we are too dumb to learn to think. There are people who have exceptional problem solving skills, yet learning another language is a real

[agi] Extended deadline for Call for Team Leader (fwd from [EMAIL PROTECTED])

2005-03-15 Thread Eugen Leitl
- Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 13:08:15 +0900 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Extended deadline for Call for Team Leader X-Mailer: JsvMail 5.5 (Shuriken Pro3) Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sorry if you

Re[2]: [agi] Google as a strong AI

2005-03-15 Thread Stephen Reed
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005, Dennis Gorelik wrote: From my point of view CYC in on the same level of intelligence as MS Word. Well, probably MS Word is even more intelligent. At least MS Word works and produce nice and intelligent results (not super-intelligent though). Does CYC have any practical

Re: Re[2]: [agi] LISP as a Strong AI development tool

2005-03-15 Thread Lukasz Kaiser
Hi. I don't see any practical use of Start systems. Do you? Yes I do - to answer questions and retrieve information. It's just a shot at a better google and you do see a use for it. Second reference doesn't work. Works for me, perhaps you need to update your browser. - lk --- To

Re: [agi] Google as a strong AI

2005-03-15 Thread Paul Fidika
Ben Goertzel wrote: Cyc, SOAR and Novamente are all closer to strong AI than Google, since they can carry out a greater variety of intelligence-like functions. Last I checked, Google is used by 100 million people daily, while, to the best of my knowledge, neither Cyc nor SOAR have

Re: [agi] Google as a strong AI

2005-03-15 Thread J Marlow
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 12:18:31 -0600, Paul Fidika [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Last I checked, Google is used by 100 million people daily, while, to the best of my knowledge, neither Cyc nor SOAR have seen more than two or three applications outside of the Blocks-world, while your Novamente project,

Re: [agi] Google as a strong AI

2005-03-15 Thread Bill Hibbard
I agree with the posters who say that Google is not strong AI. But it is amazingly useful because it, along with the web, forms a huge content-addressable memory. That's an important part of human brains. I think of google as my second brain. It can't think, but it is a wonderful complement to our