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2006-08-14 Thread Eugen Leitl
- Forwarded message from Angelo Loula [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Angelo Loula [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 11:13:10 -0300 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [alife] New book published - Artificial Cognition Systems Artificial Cognition Systems - 2006 edited by

Re: [agi] /. [OpenCyc 1.0 Stutters Out of the Gates]

2006-08-14 Thread Ben Goertzel
Interesting... Note also this: http://research.cyc.com/ which apparently makes the full contents of the Cyc knowledge base available to researchers in academia or industry, so long as they use it only for research purposes... Personally, my attitude on Cyc is: * from all I have read and

Re: [agi] Marcus Hutter's lossless compression of human knowledge prize

2006-08-14 Thread Mark Waser
Any large corpus of text is going to contain redundant information. Usually is it not coded explicitly like Ben is a person. Rather it is implicit, like Ben said, from which you can infer that Ben is a person. OK. But what does that inference buy you in terms of compression if you are

Re: [agi] Marcus Hutter's lossless compression of human knowledge prize

2006-08-14 Thread Sampo Etelavuori
On 8/14/06, Mark Waser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any large corpus of text is going to contain redundant information. Usually is it not coded explicitly like Ben is a person.Rather it is implicit, like Ben said, from which you can infer that Ben is a person. OK.But what does that inference buy you

Re: [agi] ontology

2006-08-14 Thread John Scanlon
Thanks, I can see how the connection was probably made. Still seems like the wrong choice of terminology, though. - Original Message - From: J. Storrs Hall, PhD. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 2:00 PM Subject: Re: [agi] ontology Ontology is

Re: Sampo: [agi] Marcus Hutter's lossless compression of human knowledge prize

2006-08-14 Thread Mark Waser
No,itisnotincludedifitisonly builtintocomputermemoryastheprogramproceedsthroughthedatalikeImentioned and not saved with the compressed file and then reconstructed while doing decompression in similar fashion as it was originally built. Agreed, however, you previously referred to