Re: [agi] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [Htech] what is it like to be a spider?]

2006-06-30 Thread Bob Mottram
Yes spiders are interesting, and jumping spiders have excellent stereo vision. There's one who patrols the area around my desk, and often jumps onto the monitor or keyboard. If I move my finger in front of it the spider clearly takes an interest and tracks the motion with its eyes. Last year I

Re: [agi] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [Htech] what is it like to be a spider?]

2006-06-30 Thread Bob Mottram
On 30/06/06, Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I'm impressed is the high acuity, and a detailed world model,built by serial scanning of the world with a high-resolution spot.Very much like us (fovea), but implemented in just 10 neurons. Itwould be definitely interesting to build an

Re: [agi] Measuerabel Fitness Functions?.... Flow charts? Source Code? .. Computing Intelligence? How too? ................. ping

2006-07-06 Thread Bob Mottram
Measures of fitness used to optimise systems can be many and varied. In an application where a mobile robot needs to navigate from one location to another using its sensors you can use measures such as:- the number and type of features detected within the robot's vacinity - amount of time to make

Re: [agi] Vision

2006-09-05 Thread Bob Mottram
On 05/09/06, Kingma, D.P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A problem within the AI domain is that Vision has not been solved yet.The existing and functioning algorithms are mainly specialised intosub domains like face recognition etc. These are very nice but are notgeneral enough to use in an arbitrary

Re: [agi] Why so few AGI projects?

2006-09-13 Thread Bob Mottram
I think that's an insightful summary which really matches very well my experience of people doing academic research on AI. There are really exceptionally few of the hard core people who are just relentlessly persuing it year after year. Many people doing computer science courses take an interest

Re: [agi] Computer monitoring and control API

2006-09-29 Thread Bob Mottram
I would dearly love to have some intercompatible standards for robotics interfaces. There have been a few attempts to define a standard in the past, but none of them have been very successful so far. A few years ago I remember there was something called the Robotics Engineering Task Force which

Re: [agi] Language modeling

2006-10-23 Thread Bob Mottram
In child development understanding seems to considerably precede the ability to articulate that understanding. Also development seems to generally move from highly abstract representations (stick men, smily suns) to more concrete adult-like ones. On 23/10/06, justin corwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [agi] SOTA

2006-10-23 Thread Bob Mottram
You can get depth information from single camera motion (eg Andrew Davison's MonoSLAM), but this requires an initial size calibration and continuous tracking. If the tracking is lost at any time you need to recalibrate. This makes single camera systems less practical. With a stereo camera the

Re: [agi] SOTA

2006-10-24 Thread Bob Mottram
On 23/10/06, Neil H. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm also pretty surprise that they haven't done anything major withtheir vSLAM tech:http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=1570091 Evolution really failed to capitalise upon their early success. One of their biggest mistakes was to make

Re: [agi] SOTA

2006-10-24 Thread Bob Mottram
On 24/10/06, Pei Wang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any comments on Microsoft Robotics Studio?The microsoft robotics studio is quite an unimpressive release. I had expected to see user friendly IDEs and drag-and-drop function block programming, but there's none of that. About the best I can say is that

[agi] An AGI baby

2006-11-08 Thread Bob Mottram
I don't know if the Novamente baby is going to be anything like a human baby. If it is, this article might be of interest. Design methodologies for central pattern generators: an application to crawling humanoids http://birg2.epfl.ch/publications/fulltext/righetti06d.pdfAlso for some more

Re: [agi] SOTA

2006-11-11 Thread Bob Mottram
-budget programmable robot (say, inthe price range of Robosapien V2 and LEGO Mindstorms NXT), which one will you recommend? I won't have high expectation in performance, butwill be interested in testing ideas on the coordination of perception,reasoning, learning, and action.PeiOn 10/24/06, Bob Mottram

Re: [agi] A question on the symbol-system hypothesis

2006-11-22 Thread Bob Mottram
, Charles D Hixson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob Mottram wrote: On 17/11/06, *Charles D Hixson* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A system understands a situation that it encounters if it predictably acts in such a way as to maximize the probability of achieving it's

Re: [agi] A question on the symbol-system hypothesis

2006-11-22 Thread Bob Mottram
.) For the first example, I was thinking of peek-a-boo. Bob Mottram wrote: Goals don't necessarily need to be complex or even explicitly defined. One goal might just be to minimise the difference between experiences (whether real or simulated) and expectations. In this way the system learns what

Re: [agi] Geoffrey Hinton's ANNs

2006-12-08 Thread Bob Mottram
This looks like the stuff I was doing 15 years ago. I started off being very interested in neural networks, which were all the rage at the time. I used backpropogation and other methods both supervised and unsupervised. Like this guy I also tried unsupervised learning of classifiers followed by

Re: [agi] Brain memory Map Article -

2006-12-19 Thread Bob Mottram
I was also reading that article. The place cell phenomena has been known for many years. For a long time I've thought that sleep might be used for something other than just down time and cellular repair, and this research does seem to confirm that sleep has some functional role. It's

Re: [agi] SOTA

2007-01-06 Thread Bob Mottram
On 06/01/07, Philip Goetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I worked for a robotics company called Arctec in the early 1980s. We built a robot called the Gemini. They essentially solved the navigation problem - in an office-space world. You stuck one small reflector on both sides of every door, at

Re: [agi] SOTA

2007-01-06 Thread Bob Mottram
On 06/01/07, Mike Dougherty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I really want to see a central traffic computer take driving away from all the unqualified (or disinterested) drivers on the roads. I'd really like to see companies get incentives to allow knowledge workers work from home offices to save

Re: [agi] SOTA

2007-01-06 Thread Bob Mottram
On 06/01/07, Gary Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I like the idea of the house being the central AI though and communicating to house robots through an wireless encrypted protocol to prevent inadvertant commands from other systems and hacking. This is the way it's going to go in my opinion.

Re: [agi] teleoperated robots

2007-01-07 Thread Bob Mottram
There should also be a rating facility, where the person receiving the telerobot service can provide feedback on how well the job had been done. High scoring teleoperators would be more likely to get work than ones who just picked your tools up and threw them around. Within a few years I think

Re: [agi] SOTA

2007-01-12 Thread Bob Mottram
Ah, but is a thermostat conscious ? :-) On 12/01/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.thermostatshop.com/ Not sure what you've been Googling on but here they are. There's even one you can call on the telephone If there's a market for this, then why can't I even

Re: [agi] Project proposal: MindPixel 2

2007-01-13 Thread Bob Mottram
Actually it doesn't matter what convention you use. You could simply have an entry box on the screen, with a prompt saying please type a short statement that you believe to be either true or false. Some parsing can do the rest. To avoid getting too verbose simply restrict the maximum number of

Re: [agi] Project proposal: MindPixel 2

2007-01-14 Thread Bob Mottram
I think all these are excellent suggestions. On 13/01/07, Joel Pitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some comments/suggestions: * I think such a project should make the data public domain. Ignore silly ideas like giving be shares in the knowledge or whatever. It just complicates things. If the

Re: [agi] SOTA

2007-01-14 Thread Bob Mottram
specific aspect of it's being. I would say that until we have software that can learn new free format information as we do and modify it's goal stack based upon that new information then we do not have a truly concious computer. -- *From:* Bob Mottram [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [agi] Project proposal: MindPixel 2

2007-01-14 Thread Bob Mottram
Another way to group the data might be to tease it out into dimensions of what, where, when and whom. There does seem to be some neurological evidence for this kind of categorization. Also, by indexing the data along these lines it allows you to some extent to make meaningful interpolations

Re: [agi] Project proposal: MindPixel 2

2007-01-19 Thread Bob Mottram
My feeling is that this probably isn't a great business idea. I think collecting common sense data and building that into a general reasoner should really be thought of as a long term effort, which is unlikely to appeal to business investors expecting to see a return within a few years. If any

Re: [agi] Project proposal: MindPixel 2

2007-01-19 Thread Bob Mottram
On 19/01/07, YKY (Yan King Yin) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about this: the database would be open for anyone to download, for experimentation or whatever purpose. Only when someone wants to incorporate the data in an AGI, would a license fee be needed. Also I would make the inference

Re: [agi] Re: (video)The Future of Cognitive Computing

2007-01-20 Thread Bob Mottram
Here's a video in which Donald Michie talks about the early years of AI (GOFAI), beginning with his discussions with Alan Turing about building a child machine. http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/events/ccs2002/2002-10-11-michie.qtl On 20/01/07, Kingma, D.P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Forgot to say:

Re: [agi] (video)The Future of Cognitive Computing

2007-01-21 Thread Bob Mottram
Some recent experiments detecting neurons and their processes in high resolution microscope images lead me to believe that the possibility of reverse engineering the physical structure of the brain might not be as far off as perhaps many people believe. However, knowing what the 3D structure is

Re: [agi] Project proposal: MindPixel 2

2007-01-23 Thread Bob Mottram
I'm no expert on automated reasoning, but wasn't the original Mindpixel based fundamentally upon probabilistic representations (coherence values) whereas Cyc, from what I understand, doesn't represent facts or rules probabilistically. - Bob On 23/01/07, Stephen Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [agi] Project proposal: MindPixel 2

2007-01-24 Thread Bob Mottram
/07, Bob Mottram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think it would be better to design a system with probabilistic reasoning as a fundamental component from the outset, rather than trying to bolt this on as an after thought. I know from doing a lot of stuff with machine vision that modelling sensor

Re: [agi] Project proposal: MindPixel 2

2007-01-27 Thread Bob Mottram
Pick whatever public domain licence you prefer: GPL, MIT, Apache, or whatever you believe will prevent legal abuses. In principle though I agree that data entered by the public should be owned by the public. On 27/01/07, David Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/27/07, Charles D Hixson

Re: Languages for AGI [WAS Re: [agi] Priors and indefinite probabilities]

2007-02-18 Thread Bob Mottram
I've seen the programming language merry-go-round on AI related forums too many times to become embroiled, but for what it's worth I'm using C# / .NET. My master plan for robotic domination involves using Mono. - This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or

Re: [agi] general weak ai

2007-03-06 Thread Bob Mottram
Some of the 3D reconstruction stuff being done now is quite impressive (I'm thinking of things like photosynth, monoSLAM and Moravec's stereo vision) and this kind of capability to take raw sensor data and turn it into useful 3D models which may then be cogitated upon would be a basic

Re: [agi] general weak ai

2007-03-06 Thread Bob Mottram
what is unique about your approach? Novamente doesn't involve real robotics right now but the design does involve occupancy grids and probabilistic simulated robotics, so your ideas are of some practical interest to me... Ben Bob Mottram wrote: Some of the 3D reconstruction stuff being done now

Re: [agi] general weak ai

2007-03-06 Thread Bob Mottram
What attracted me about the DP method was that it's less ad-hoc than landmark based systems, but the most attractive feature is of course the linear scaling which is really essential when dealing with large amounts of data. On 06/03/07, Ben Goertzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, this

Re: [agi] general weak ai

2007-03-07 Thread Bob Mottram
I can confirm from practical experimentation that 8bit integers are too coarse to be able to model the probability density of a three dimensional space using the classic occupancy grid mapping method, but that you can just about get away with using 16bits for some applications. Personally I'm

Re: [agi] Numenta (Hawkins) software released

2007-03-07 Thread Bob Mottram
That's pretty evil. I wouldn't use the Numenta software simply on the basis of this licence. On 07/03/07, Shane Legg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It might however be worth thinking about the licence: Confidentiality. 1. Protection of Confidential Information. You agree that all code,

Re: [agi] Off-topic: The Shtinkularity

2007-03-12 Thread Bob Mottram
RoboTurtle II is still my favourite. On 12/03/07, Ben Goertzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, If you have 2.5 minutes or so to spare, my 13-year-old son Zebulon has made another Singularity-focused mini-movie: http://www.zebradillo.com/AnimPages/The%20Shtinkularity.html This one is

Re: [agi] The Reading Helvetica Problem

2007-03-13 Thread Bob Mottram
Early stage vision involves the detection of primitive types of geometry - edges, lines of different orientation, blobs, corners, colours and motion in different directions. These seem to arise from simple self-organisation due to the physical properties of neurons and architecture of receptive

Re: [agi] Competing AGI approaches

2007-03-17 Thread Bob Mottram
On 17/03/07, YKY (Yan King Yin) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PS -- remember also the history of UNIVAC. Eckert and Mauchly made some ground-breaking progress in early computing, including the stored-program concept which somehow was stolen / co-discovered by von Neumann. Later von Neumann

Re: [agi] Semi-amusing Novamente machinima

2007-03-17 Thread Bob Mottram
It's difficult to judge how impressive or otherwise such demos are, since it would be easy to produce an animation of this kind with trivial programming. What are we really seeing here? How much does the baby AGI know about fetching before it plays the game, and how much does it need to learn?

Re: [agi] Fwd: Numenta Newsletter: March 20, 2007

2007-03-21 Thread Bob Mottram
I think making direct comparisons between computational power and the animal kingdom has always been a questionable exercise, but I generally agree with trying to tackle problems in a similar order that evolution did, because evolution needed to find incremental solutions. I've long wanted to

Re: [agi] Fwd: Numenta Newsletter: March 20, 2007

2007-03-21 Thread Bob Mottram
On 21/03/07, Ben Goertzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * use a combination of lidar and camera input * write code that took this combined input to make a 3D contour map of the perceived surfaces in the world * use standard math transforms to triangulate this contour map * use some AI heuristics

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-25 Thread Bob Mottram
I've seen heated arguments over computer languages on AI-related forums many times before, so I've no intention of pimping any particular language specifically for AGI development. Actually I think the state of the art in software creation at the moment is still rather crummy, and not much

Re: [agi] New business direction for Novamente LLC

2007-03-26 Thread Bob Mottram
Creating compelling virtual characters for games or online worlds sounds like a nice direction to go down, which fits well with the overall aims of producing an AGI. Although most of my own focus is in producing real world intelligent entities in the form of robotics I've long thought, ever

Re: [agi] AGI and Web 2.0

2007-03-29 Thread Bob Mottram
Yes that's usually the way it works. Initially you need one person or a small team to produce something which is at least good enough to be run and tested by others. Improvements can be made from there on. On 29/03/07, Russell Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/29/07, YKY (Yan King Yin)

Re: [agi] AGI and Web 2.0

2007-03-29 Thread Bob Mottram
On 29/03/07, Russell Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think there's at least one good practical reason to avoid doing that, or at least to do it at arm's length in a potential users discussing potential features mailing list rather than here's our code as we write it. In the early stages of

Re: [agi] Artificial General Intelligence: Now Is the Time (by Goertzel)

2007-04-14 Thread Bob Mottram
Nice article. It's a white knuckle ride towards the singularity from now on! On 14/04/07, Bruce Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The creation of a superhumanly intelligent AI system could be possible within 10 years, with an AI Manhattan Project, says Ben Goertzel. Published on

Re: [agi] AGI != Singularity

2007-04-16 Thread Bob Mottram
I mostly agree with this. There are a set of jobs which most creatures need to be able to perform. Finding food, navigating through space, avoiding harm, practising skills, predicting near future events, reproducing and so on. Intelligence could be said to be a function of this combined set of

Re: [agi] Torboto - the Torture Robot

2007-04-24 Thread Bob Mottram
The prospect of robots causing harm is not only a theoretical SIAI-style consideration. At the moment I'm adding a manipulator arm to a telerobot, and the intention here is to allow some useful household jobs to be done using the robot, such as sweeping or mopping up, via an internet based

Re: [agi] Torboto - the Torture Robot

2007-04-24 Thread Bob Mottram
On 24/04/07, J. Storrs Hall, PhD. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mining plus matching, analogy, and interpolation/extrapolation. The key to making it work is to form the abstractions that allow the robot/AI to interpret the actions as grasp broom; lower until it touches floor instead of move hand to

Re: [agi] News bit: Carnegie Mellon unveils Internet-controlled robots anyone can build

2007-04-26 Thread Bob Mottram
I've been using the Charmed Labs Qwerk for over a month now and it is a very neat system which brings together in a single device many of the things which traditionally are separate, such as computers, digital analog I/O boards, vision systems, Servo control, etc. Integrating these diverse

Re: [agi] News bit: Carnegie Mellon unveils Internet-controlled robots anyone can build

2007-04-26 Thread Bob Mottram
Well you've correctly anticipated the next step. I'm adding a manipulator arm, which is only a little shorter than an adult human arm, so that the robot will be capable of doing a few useful jobs. The intention here is to use it for things like sweeping, mopping or dusting. The robot, which

Re: [agi] News bit: Carnegie Mellon unveils Internet-controlled robots anyone can build

2007-04-26 Thread Bob Mottram
of the bucket. When your masterpiece is complete you can call yourself an abstract expressionist and sell the robots works to the Tate gallery for a million dollars with the title Expressions of post-human hubris. On 26/04/07, Benjamin Goertzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/26/07, Bob Mottram [EMAIL

Re: [agi] Sony's QRIO robot

2007-04-27 Thread Bob Mottram
It's a shame that Sony discontinued their robotics division. I suspect in this case this is just anthropomorphisation of some quirk of the robots control system. What's being described here is the psychological principle of reciprocation: I give something of value to you, you give something of

Re: [agi] mouse uploading

2007-04-28 Thread Bob Mottram
When I first saw this on the BBC web site I thought it looked exciting - maybe the first upload. But on closer inspection it seems to be less impressive. There is an extremely brief report on what they did, which looks like merely simulating a large number of neurons on a supercomputer, without

Re: [agi] MONISTIC, CLOSED-ENDED AI VS PLURALISTIC, OPEN-ENDED AGI

2007-04-30 Thread Bob Mottram
On 30/04/07, Mike Tintner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Best example I can think of is William Calvin saying something like: the conscious mind is clearly designed to deal with problematic decisions, where existing solutions won't work. The smartest mind is the one that can find the correct answer

Re: [agi] MONISTIC, CLOSED-ENDED AI VS PLURALISTIC, OPEN-ENDED AGI

2007-04-30 Thread Bob Mottram
On 30/04/07, Mike Dougherty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: graphics, image, redrawn, visualizations - all indicative of a high degree of visual-spatial thinking. I'm curious, are your own AGI efforts are modelled on this mode of thought? I ask because I wonder if the machine intelligence we build

Re: [agi] MONISTIC, CLOSED-ENDED AI VS PLURALISTIC, OPEN-ENDED AGI

2007-05-01 Thread Bob Mottram
On 01/05/07, Mike Tintner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is no choice about all this. You do not have an option to have a pure language AGI - if you wish any brain to understand the world, and draw further connections about the world, it HAS to operate with graphics and images. Period. Plato's

Re: [agi] MONISTIC, CLOSED-ENDED AI VS PLURALISTIC, OPEN-ENDED AGI

2007-05-01 Thread Bob Mottram
On 01/05/07, DEREK ZAHN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what exactly do you think my internal simulation processes might be doing when I read the following sentence from your email? In short, imagery from visual, acoustic and other sensory modalities give life through simulation to the basic skeletal

Re: [agi] Guessing robots

2007-05-10 Thread Bob Mottram
I don't know what algorithms are being referred to in this article - perhaps a type of monte carlo localization. Does anyone have more direct references? Also it's only in 2D, which is normal for laser based mapping. It's unlikely that we'll see products based on this sort of technology

Re: [agi] Guessing robots

2007-05-10 Thread Bob Mottram
On 10/05/07, Bo Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You could probably buy 10 cheap webcams and put them all around the robot and get some vision algorithms to turn them into 3D scenes, which are avoided/mapped? This seems like a pretty well understood and constrained problem. This kind of camera

Re: [agi] Open-Source AGI

2007-05-11 Thread Bob Mottram
The open source idea sounds great and in general I agree with this approach. One of the main benefits in my view is ensuring that powerful new technology does not fall into the hands of any single individual, company or nation who could then monopolise its use, potentially with unfriendly

Re: [agi] Tommy

2007-05-11 Thread Bob Mottram
In order to differentiate this from the rest of the robotics crowd you need to avoid building a specialised pinball playing robot. If the machine can learn and form concepts based upon its experiences it should be able to do so with any kind of game, provided that suitable actuators are

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

2007-05-12 Thread Bob Mottram
In a recent interview (http://discovermagazine.com/2007/jan/interview-minsky/) Marvin Minsky says that one of the key things which an intelligent system ought to be able to do is reason by analogy. His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a dryer

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

2007-05-12 Thread Bob Mottram
On 12/05/07, Mike Tintner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (I think this area is worth a lot of discussion - it's so important to AGI). As Minsky and yourself seem to agree this does seem to be a central issue, since it cuts to the heart of how we are able to represent things and then make meaningful

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

2007-05-16 Thread Bob Mottram
are not. -- Ben On 5/12/07, Richard Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pei Wang wrote: On 5/12/07, Bob Mottram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a recent interview (http://discovermagazine.com/2007/jan/interview-minsky/ ) Marvin Minsky says that one of the key things which an intelligent system

Re: [agi] Re: [singularity] Help get the SIAI video on Digg Videos right now

2007-05-21 Thread Bob Mottram
The SIAI videos which are up on google so far look ok. I didn't know that they were actually trying to *build* an AI, as opposed to just raising the generally relevant issues. To the layman this will just look like bunk, since many of these issues aren't yet within the popular zeitgeist. If I

Re: [agi] Bad Friendly AI poetry ;-)

2007-05-25 Thread Bob Mottram
An old poem of mine, vaguely AI related: Factory worker the watchmakers strongest son arms cascading through space time, the unforgiving metronome on a stage of smoke and tarnish perhaps only those metal hands worn down by years of toil could tell the stories of your forefathers On

Re: [agi] Beyond AI chapters up on Kurzweil

2007-06-01 Thread Bob Mottram
The various categories described in kinds of minds seem sensible, and will probably become part of the standard AGi terminology. On 01/06/07, J Storrs Hall, PhD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ray Kurzweil has arranged to put a couple of sample chapters up on his site: Kinds of Minds

Re: [agi] Open AGI Consortium

2007-06-01 Thread Bob Mottram
Ownership of things and establishing who owns what seems to be very important to humans. One time I bought my two young nephews identical toys, and then subsequently watched them fighting over who owned which toy - even though they were exactly alike. What does it mean to own something, and do

Re: [agi] Open AGI Consortium

2007-06-02 Thread Bob Mottram
On 02/06/07, YKY (Yan King Yin) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the market). Anyway I propose to remedy this problem by fixing the license price of all patents we acquire, by applying a fixed formula based on individuals' assessment of their contributions. From having worked on open source projects

Re: [agi] Open AGI Consortium

2007-06-03 Thread Bob Mottram
One way in which you might be able to make use of many members who may be interested in AGI but lack the background knowledge or programming skills might be to develop scripting languages or IDEs which would allow volunteers (payed or otherwise) to generate training scenarios or evaluate test

Re: [agi] Open AGI Consortium

2007-06-04 Thread Bob Mottram
One possible method of becoming an AGI tycoon might be to have the main core of code as conventional open source under some suitable licence, but then charge customers for the service of having that core system customised to solve particular tasks. The licence might permit use of the code for

Re: [agi] Open AGI Consortium

2007-06-04 Thread Bob Mottram
On 04/06/07, Mark Waser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One possible method of becoming an AGI tycoon might be to have the main core of code as conventional open source under some suitable licence, but then charge customers for the service of having that core system customised to solve particular

Re: [agi] poll: what do you look for when joining an AGI group?

2007-06-04 Thread Bob Mottram
On 04/06/07, Derek Zahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder if a time will come when the personal security of AGI researchers or conferences will be a real concern. Stopping AGI could be a high priority for existential-risk wingnuts. I think this is the view put forward by Hugo De Garis. I

[agi] Minimally ambiguous languages

2007-06-05 Thread Bob Mottram
I remember last year there was some talk about possibly using Lojban as a possible language use to teach an AGI in a minimally ambiguous way. Does anyone know if the same level of ambiguity found in ordinary English language also applies to sign language? I know very little about sign language,

Re: [agi] Vectorianism and a2i2

2007-06-06 Thread Bob Mottram
What is vectorianism ? On 06/06/07, Lukasz Stafiniak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Josh, Do you find a2i2 convincing? Their vectorianism seems to resonate with your ideas. Thank You. - This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options,

Re: [agi] Re: Books

2007-06-07 Thread Bob Mottram
Here's my book list: http://www.librarything.com/catalog/motters On 07/06/07, Lukasz Stafiniak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, I've skipped these: Estimation of Distribution Algorithms: A New Tool for Evolutionary Computation (Genetic Algorithms and Evolutionary Computation) (Hardcover)

Re: [agi] Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction Richard S. Sutton and Andrew G. Barto

2007-06-24 Thread Bob Mottram
I have one of Richard Sutton's books, and RL methods are useful but I also have some reservations about them. Often in this sort of approach a strict behaviorist position is adopted where the system is simply trying to find an appropriate function mapping inputs to outputs. The internals of the

Re: [agi] Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction Richard S. Sutton and Andrew G. Barto

2007-06-25 Thread Bob Mottram
On 25/06/07, Robert Wensman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To put it bluntly: Isn't the concept of reinforcement learning (as typically described) exactly the kind of simplistic AI models that AGI tries to distance itself from? It can be. The sorts of problem which I've seen RL applied to were of a

Re: [agi] Re: HTM vs. IHDR

2007-06-29 Thread Bob Mottram
From what I've seen so far HTM has only been applied to very trivial binary images far less complex than medical images or more ordinary scenes. If they can return reasonable results from camera images in a way which is invariant to scale, translation and rotation then I'll be impressed. As I

Re: [agi] Passing an IQ test

2007-07-06 Thread Bob Mottram
Yes there's no reason why the fitness criteria or rules of the game can't also be subject to exploration during play. I suppose this is dangerous only in the sense that an AGI's high level or top level motivations could be subject to change during playful characterization of the space of

Re: [agi] play and intelligence

2007-07-06 Thread Bob Mottram
I think laziness in teenagers has more to do with physiological/hormonal changes which simply won't apply to an AGI. Being playful does not imply laziness. Also AGIs may have far more spare computational resource which they can dedicate to playful exploration of possible outcomes than is the

Re: [agi] play and intelligence

2007-07-06 Thread Bob Mottram
Games - and mathematics is the biggest game of all if you ask me - are the important things in life. - Marvin Minsky On 06/07/07, Pete de Lepper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess what I'm thinking is how would an AGI determine how much of it's time should be spent playing? If you impose

Re: [agi] Video Mining

2007-08-05 Thread Bob Mottram
In principle video on the internet may become a useful resource for AGI learning. However in practice the previous comments hand wave over a lot of very complex details, in a similar manner to how some of the early AI pioneers believed that visual interpretation would be easy. To be able to

Re: [agi] Video Mining

2007-08-05 Thread Bob Mottram
paradigm, and its really only after many years of trying to make this sort of thing work that I had to change my views. On 05/08/07, a [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob Mottram wrote: it seems infeasible that 2D templates need to be created for every possible viewing angle and scale of an object

Re: [agi] Selfish promotion of AGI

2007-09-28 Thread Bob Mottram
On 28/09/2007, Don Detrich - PoolDraw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I find it interesting that some of you are so nervous about promoting your own industry. This is because in the history of the field there have been no shortage of self-promoters who never really delivered on their promises. It's

Re: [agi] Context free text analysis is not a proper method of natural language understanding

2007-10-03 Thread Bob Mottram
On 03/10/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Given (1), no context-free analysis can understand natural language. Given (2), no adaptive agent can learn (proper) understanding of natural language given only texts. For human-like understanding, an AGI would need to participate in

Re: [agi] RSI

2007-10-03 Thread Bob Mottram
On 03/10/2007, Richard Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RSI is not necessary for human-level AGI. I think it's too early to be able to make a categorical statement of this kind. Does not a new born baby recursively improve its thought processes until it reaches human level ? - This list

Re: The first-to-market effect [WAS Re: [agi] Religion-free technical content]

2007-10-04 Thread Bob Mottram
On 04/10/2007, Richard Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Linas Vepstas wrote: Um, why, exactly, are you assuming that the first one will be freindly? The desire for self-preservation, by e.g. rooting out and exterminating all (potentially unfreindly) competing AGI, would not be what I'd

Re: The first-to-market effect [WAS Re: [agi] Religion-free technical content]

2007-10-04 Thread Bob Mottram
On 04/10/2007, Richard Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As to exactly how, I don't know, but since the AGI is, by assumption, peaceful, friendly and non-violent, it will do it in a peaceful, friendly and non-violent manner. This seems very vague. I would suggest that if there is no clear

Re: The first-to-market effect [WAS Re: [agi] Religion-free technical content]

2007-10-04 Thread Bob Mottram
hat activity, or traditional forms of despotism. There seems to be a clarity gap in the theory here. On 04/10/2007, Richard Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob Mottram wrote: On 04/10/2007, Richard Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As to exactly how, I don't know, but since the AGI

Re: Economic libertarianism [was Re: The first-to-market effect [WAS Re: [agi] Religion-free technical content]

2007-10-08 Thread Bob Mottram
Economic libertarianism would be nice if it were to occur. However, in practice companies and governments put in place all sorts of anti-competitive structures to lock people into certain modes of economic activity. I think economic activity in general is heavily influenced by cognitive biases

Re: [META] Re: Economic libertarianism [was Re: The first-to-market effect [WAS Re: [agi] Religion-free technical content]

2007-10-11 Thread Bob Mottram
On 10/10/2007, Richard Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am I the only one, or does anyone else agree that politics/political theorising is not appropriate on the AGI list? Agreed. There are many other forums where political ideology can be debated. - This list is sponsored by AGIRI:

Re: [agi] Why roboticists have more fun

2007-10-16 Thread Bob Mottram
On 16/10/2007, John G. Rose [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Part of the reason AI has so much damaged credibility is that over the past decades there have always been these predictions that by some year robots will be doing this or robots will be doing that. Any idiot can make predictions for 2050.

Re: [agi] Nonverbal negotiation (was Re: Self-improvement is not a special case)

2007-10-17 Thread Bob Mottram
In the case of an AI (presumably a robot) negotiating around humans I expect that the way in which this would be done would be quite different from the way that humans do it. In the human case the circuitry controlling walking direction and speed is substantially the same for two individuals

Re: [agi] More public awarenesss that AGI is coming fast

2007-10-18 Thread Bob Mottram
On 17/10/2007, David Orban [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are now Department of Labor predictions of 50%-80% unemployment rates due to automation of white collar jobs. This in my opinion is not a small matter either. On the unemployment question I remain optimistic. If you go back a few

Re: [agi] More public awarenesss that AGI is coming fast

2007-10-18 Thread Bob Mottram
Despite these arguments there are good reasons for caution. When you look at the history of AI research one thing tends to stand out - some people never seem to learn of the dangers of hype. Having been around for a while I've heard many individuals make a ten years to SAI type of prediction,

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