Re: Mark Launches Singularity :-) WAS Re: [agi] Microsoft Launches Singularity

2008-03-26 Thread Chris Petersen
Mentifex called; it wants its ASCII diagrams back. -Chris --- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription:

Re: [agi] Instead of an AGI Textbook

2008-03-26 Thread Aki Iskandar
Well ... I can take a shot at putting a diagram together. Making Mind Maps is one way I learn any kind of material I want. If the topics in the list(s) are descriptive enough, I can take a shot at putting such a diagram together. It'd be less work to correct it than to make one, right? Hey -

Re: [agi] Instead of an AGI Textbook

2008-03-26 Thread Ben Goertzel
Is there some kind of online software that lets a group of people update a Mind Map diagram collaboratively, in the manner of a Wiki page? This would seem critical if a Mind Map is to really be useful for the purpose you suggest... -- Ben On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 8:32 AM, Aki Iskandar [EMAIL

Re: [agi] The Effect of Application of an Idea

2008-03-26 Thread Jim Bromer
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 7:19 PM, Vladimir Nesov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Certainly ambiguity (=applicability to multiple contexts in different ways) and presence of rich structure in presumably simple 'ideas', as you call it, is a known issue. Even interaction between concept clouds evoked

Re: [agi] Instead of an AGI Textbook

2008-03-26 Thread Mark Waser
Hi Ben, I have a publisher who would love to publish the result of the wiki as a textbook if you are willing. Mark - Original Message - From: Ben Goertzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 7:46 PM Subject: [agi] Instead of an AGI

Re: [agi] Instead of an AGI Textbook

2008-03-26 Thread Stephen Reed
Ben, Wikipedia has significant overlap with the topic list on the AGIRI Wiki. I propose for discussion the notion that the AGIRI Wiki be content-compatible with Wikipedia along two dimensions: license - authors agree to the GNU Free Documentation Licenseeditorial standards - Wikipedia says

Re: [agi] Instead of an AGI Textbook

2008-03-26 Thread Ben Goertzel
Thanks Mark ... let's see how it evolves... I think the problem is not finding a publisher, but rather, finding the time to contribute and refine the content Maybe in a year or two there will be enough good content there that someone with appropriate time and inclination and skill can shape it

Re: [agi] Instead of an AGI Textbook

2008-03-26 Thread Ben Goertzel
Hi Stephen, Ben, Wikipedia has significant overlap with the topic list on the AGIRI Wiki. I propose for discussion the notion that the AGIRI Wiki be content-compatible with Wikipedia along two dimensions: license - authors agree to the GNU Free Documentation License I have no problem with

Re: [agi] Instead of an AGI Textbook

2008-03-26 Thread Stephen Reed
Ben, I just created an account on the wiki and created my user page derived from my Wikipedia user page. Image uploads on the wiki work the same way as on Wikipedia - Yay. -Steve Stephen L. Reed Artificial Intelligence Researcher http://texai.org/blog http://texai.org 3008 Oak Crest Ave.

Re: [agi] The Effect of Application of an Idea

2008-03-26 Thread Vladimir Nesov
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 4:27 PM, Jim Bromer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agreed with you up until your conclusion. While the problems that I talked about may be known issues, they are discussed almost exclusively using intuitive models, like we used, or by referring to ineffective models, like

Re: [agi] Instead of an AGI Textbook

2008-03-26 Thread BillK
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Ben Goertzel wrote: Is there some kind of online software that lets a group of people update a Mind Map diagram collaboratively, in the manner of a Wiki page? This would seem critical if a Mind Map is to really be useful for the purpose you suggest...

Re: [agi] Instead of an AGI Textbook

2008-03-26 Thread Kaj Sotala
On 3/26/08, Ben Goertzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A lot of students email me asking me what to read to get up to speed on AGI. Ben, while we're on the topic, could you elaborate a bit on what kind of prerequisite knowledge the books you've written/edited require? For instance, I've been

Re: [agi] Instead of an AGI Textbook

2008-03-26 Thread Richard Loosemore
A propos of the several branches of discussion about AGI textbooks on this thread... Knowing what I do about the structure and content of the book I am writing, I cannot imagine it being merged as just a set of branch points from other works, like the one growing from Ben's TOC. What I

Re: [agi] The Effect of Application of an Idea

2008-03-26 Thread William Pearson
On 25/03/2008, Vladimir Nesov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote Simple systems can be computationally universal, so it's not an issue in itself. On the other hand, no learning algorithm is universal, there are always distributions that given algorithms will learn miserably. The problem is to find a

Re: [agi] The Effect of Application of an Idea

2008-03-26 Thread Jim Bromer
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Vladimir Nesov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What you describe is essentially my own path up to this point: I started with considering high-level capabilities and gradually worked towards an implementation that seems to be able to exhibit these high-level

Re: [agi] The Effect of Application of an Idea

2008-03-26 Thread Jim Bromer
2008/3/26 William Pearson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 25/03/2008, Vladimir Nesov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote Simple systems can be computationally universal, so it's not an issue in itself. On the other hand, no learning algorithm is universal, there are always distributions that given

Re: [agi] Instead of an AGI Textbook

2008-03-26 Thread Ben Goertzel
Fair enough, Richard... Again I'll emphasize that the idea of the Instead of an AGI Textbook is not to teach any particular theory or design for AGI, but rather to convey background knowledge that is useful for folks who wish to come to grips with contemporary AGI theories and designs I have

Re: [agi] The Effect of Application of an Idea

2008-03-26 Thread Vladimir Nesov
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 8:47 PM, Jim Bromer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do not know much about neural networks, but from what I read, I always felt that a recurrent network would be the only way you could feasibly get an ANN to represent (excuse my french) distinct items without absurdly huge

Re: [agi] Microsoft Launches Singularity

2008-03-26 Thread Charles D Hixson
John G. Rose wrote: From: Richard Loosemore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] My take on this is completely different. When I say Narrow AI I am specifically referring to something that is so limited that it has virtually no chance of becoming a general intelligence. There is more to general

[agi] Why Hugo de Garis is WRONG!

2008-03-26 Thread Mark Waser
Before swatting at one of those pesky flies that come out as the days lengthen and the temperature rises, one should probably think twice. A University of Missouri researcher has found, through the study of Drosophila (a type of fruit fly), that by manipulating levels of certain compounds

Fwd: [agi] Instead of an AGI Textbook

2008-03-26 Thread Ben Goertzel
BTW I improved the hierarchical organization of the TOC a bit, to remove the impression that it's just a random grab-bag of topics... http://www.agiri.org/wiki/Instead_of_an_AGI_Textbook ben --- agi Archives:

[agi] META: email format (was Why Hugo de Garis is WRONG!)

2008-03-26 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
Hi Mark, Could you *please* not send HTML email? Ignoring that it is generally considered poor netiquette, and for good reason, it frequently gets turned into barely readable hash by even the most modern email clients. I am using Mail.app 2.0 on OSX 10.5 which handles rendering better

Re: Mark Launches Singularity :-) WAS Re: [agi] Microsoft Launches Singularity

2008-03-26 Thread Mark Waser
:-) Now that is *funny* -- and polite -- especially after said ASCII diagrams got so badly mangled (and I got flamed for using HTML e-mail -- which is even more humorous ;-) - Original Message - From: Chris Petersen To: agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 3:52

Re: [agi] META: email format (was Why Hugo de Garis is WRONG!)

2008-03-26 Thread Charles D Hixson
J. Andrew Rogers wrote: Hi Mark, Could you *please* not send HTML email? Ignoring that it is generally considered poor netiquette, and for good reason, it frequently gets turned into barely readable hash by even the most modern email clients. I am using Mail.app 2.0 on OSX 10.5 which

I know, I KNOW :-) WAS Re: [agi] The Effect of Application of an Idea

2008-03-26 Thread Mark Waser
First a riddle: What can be all learning algorithms, but is none? A human being! --- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription:

Re: I know, I KNOW :-) WAS Re: [agi] The Effect of Application of an Idea

2008-03-26 Thread William Pearson
On 26/03/2008, Mark Waser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First a riddle: What can be all learning algorithms, but is none? A human being! Well my answer was a common PC, which I hope is more illuminating because we know it well. But human being works, as does any future AI design, as far as I am

[agi] Instead_of_an_AGI_Textbook Challenge !!

2008-03-26 Thread Ben Goertzel
OK... I just burned an hour inserting more links and content into http://www.agiri.org/wiki/Instead_of_an_AGI_Textbook I'm burnt out on it for a while, there's too much other stuff on my plate However, I have a challenge for y'all There are something like 400 people subscribed to this list...

[agi] Re: Instead_of_an_AGI_Textbook Challenge !!

2008-03-26 Thread Ben Goertzel
Ah, one more note... Due to its location on the AGIRI wiki, the Instead_of_an_AGI_Textbook automatically links into the Mind Ontology http://www.agiri.org/wiki/Mind_Ontology that I created in a fit of mania one weekend a couple years ago. So, just remember that if you decide to add content to

Re: [agi] Re: Instead_of_an_AGI_Textbook Challenge !!

2008-03-26 Thread Matthew Henderson
Hey Ben, I really appreciate this idea. I recently became very interested in the Singularity, AI, etc. I very much enjoy the discussions that go on in these threads, but rarely know what is going on. I'm really hoping to learn everything there is to know from the ground up. Matt On Wed, Mar

Re: [agi] Instead_of_an_AGI_Textbook Challenge !!

2008-03-26 Thread Stephen Reed
Thanks Ben for leaving a placeholder for Fluid Construction Grammar. I've copied over the Wikipedia article for which I wrote most of the content. Cheers. -Steve Stephen L. Reed Artificial Intelligence Researcher http://texai.org/blog http://texai.org 3008 Oak Crest Ave. Austin, Texas, USA

RE: [agi] Microsoft Launches Singularity

2008-03-26 Thread John G. Rose
From: Charles D Hixson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't think a General Intelligence could be built entirely out of narrow AI components, but it might well be a relatively trivial add-on. Just consider how much of human intelligence is demonstrably narrow AI (well, not artificial, but you