Re: [agi] Quick Hawkins Questions

2007-05-13 Thread Benjamin Goertzel
On 5/13/07, Mike Tintner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Here's a link to a lecture of his that's clearer than anything I've read (incl. the book): http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/316/ Bottom line: his system can recognize simple objects from outline drawings - like "dog", "cup." That seems to be th

[agi] Quick Hawkins Questions

2007-05-13 Thread Mike Tintner
Here's a link to a lecture of his that's clearer than anything I've read (incl. the book): http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/316/ Bottom line: his system can recognize simple objects from outline drawings - like "dog", "cup." That seems to be the only concrete claim he's making right now. There's

Re: [agi] All these moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain

2007-05-13 Thread J Storrs Hall, PhD
On Sunday 13 May 2007 06:10:59 pm Mike Tintner wrote: > c)has anyone incorporated in their AI/AGI system, as my ideas suggest they should, a cartoon unit and a movie unit, for the purposes of reasoning? Inasmuch as mine (still gotta come up with a name) hunts thru N-spaces for useful repre

Re: [agi] All these moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain

2007-05-13 Thread Mike Tintner
Ben, Many thanks for refs. and detailed reply. Much appreciated and v. interesting. After reading around this area, and cog sci re analogy, here are my v. cursory - & as usual tendentious - impressions (so blitz me down). Basically, my ideas about the importance of sensory/visual graphics and i

RE: [agi] Determinism

2007-05-13 Thread Derek Zahn
Matt Mahoney writes: > (sigh) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scruffies - This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=231415&user_secret=fabd7936

Re: [agi] Determinism

2007-05-13 Thread Matt Mahoney
--- David Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you reversed the roles, you could not do it because you would need to > > declare a 2 MB array on a computer with only 1 MB of memory. The best you > > could do is simulate a machine like B but with a smaller memory. For some > > test programs y

Re: [agi] Determinism

2007-05-13 Thread David Clark
- Original Message - From: "Matt Mahoney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, May 11, 2007 4:15 PM Subject: Re: [agi] Determinism > Suppose machine A has 1 MB of memory and machine B has 2 MB. They may have > different instruction sets. You have a program written for A but you want

Re: [agi] Re: Language Understanding

2007-05-13 Thread Mark Waser
Lukasz, Thank you *very* much for the references. I've got a number of comments, about the Touring Machine in particular, but want to finish reading before making them (to see if they are overcome by later events . . . . :-), but didn't want to wait before thanking you. Mark -

[agi] Re: Language Understanding

2007-05-13 Thread Lukasz Stafiniak
Natural Language Parsing with Graded Constraints Dissertation Ingo Schröder http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/731379.html - This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/mem

[agi] Fwd: [Caml-list] Felix 1.1.3 released

2007-05-13 Thread Lukasz Stafiniak
This can be of interest to many of you still bound to C++. This language is aimed as a "better C++", it compiles (translates) to C++, and has many features from modern languages esp. from the ML family and from Haskell (while still keeping the good things of C++, as far as I can tell). --

Re: [agi] The Advantages of a Conscious Mind

2007-05-13 Thread Eric Baum
Mike> The conscious mind thinks literally, freely. Section 14.5 of What is Thought? discusses these kind of ideas about free will. Proponents of "free will" want something mystical to happen at the point of decision making. They generally accept that physics is deterministic so the brain must be

Re: [agi] Tommy

2007-05-13 Thread Kingma, D.P.
John, as I wrote earlier, I'm very interested in learning more about your particular approach to: - Concept and pattern representation. (i.e. types of concept, patterns, relations?) - Concept creation. (searching for statistically signifcant spatiotemporal correlations, genetic programming, neural