Re: [agi] A probabilistic/algorithmic puzzle...

2003-02-21 Thread Moshe Looks
Hi Ben, Thanks for the brain teaser! As a sometimes believer in Occam's Razor, I think it makes sense to assume that Xi and Xj are indepenent, unless we know otherwise. This simplifies things, and is the rational thing to do (for some definition of rational ;-). So why not construct a bayes

Re: [agi] Dog-Level Intelligence

2003-03-24 Thread Moshe Looks
Hi Margeret, Margeret wrote: I don't mean to be rude here- but it may help you to follow some of the PSYCHE-D discussions on the Zombie argument. Their structure may help you to unravel some of your philosophical dead-ends. I don't mean to suggest that we don't all create them for our selves

[agi] ooops

2003-08-18 Thread Moshe Looks
Sorry everyone, that last message was obviously not meant to go to the list... :-( Moshe __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com --- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily

Re: [agi] RE: AGIRI fundraising drive...

2004-12-23 Thread Moshe Looks
Hi, In a private email, Moshe Looks added a common complaint that I'd forgotten: Complaint: Learning to be intelligent isn’t possible without building up abstract cognitions hierarchically from a foundation of content-rich sensory and action streams. While Novamente can deal

Re: [agi] Future AGI's based on theorem-proving

2005-02-23 Thread Moshe Looks
Hi Ben, I have written two essays on the nature of future AGI's that are smart enough to use theorem-proving to guide their every action: ... Yes, we are a long way from there now! But it's always fun to speculate The two essays are a series; by the end of the second one things get fairly

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

2007-05-25 Thread Moshe Looks
On the Dangers of Emulating Biological Drives in Artificial Intelligences A scientist once shook his head and exclaimed My career is now dead; for although my AI has an IQ that's high it insists it exists to be bred! Benjamin Goertzel wrote: On the Dangers of Incautious Research and

Re: [agi] NVIDIA GPU's

2007-06-21 Thread Moshe Looks
Derek Zahn wrote: Ben Goertzel writes: http://www.nvidia.com/page/home.html Anyone know what are the weaknesses of these GPU's as opposed to ordinary processors? They are good at linear algebra and number crunching, obviously. Is there some reason they would be bad at, say,

Re: [agi] NVIDIA GPU's

2007-06-21 Thread Moshe Looks
Derek, Do you personally think MOSES will run well on a GPU? In general no, adding more cores and processors will be a much greater win. But there are many use cases for MOSES within Novamente with diverse and demanding performance requirements - GPUs could definitely help with some of

[agi] probabilistic learning of programs now open-source

2008-11-13 Thread Moshe Looks
For anyone interested in approaches to AGI involving program-learning, or AGI-related work in Lisp, check out http://code.google.com/p/plop/ . The project wiki has some info on the project's assumptions and where it is going. Official announcement and capsule description on the Google Open-Source

[agi] internship opportunity at Google (Mountain View, CA)

2008-12-15 Thread Moshe Looks
internship program at: http://www.google.com/jobs/students Please contact me directly (off-list) if you are interested. Thanks! Moshe Looks P.S. Disclaimer: I can't promise anyone an internship, you have to go through the standard Google application interview process for interns, yada yada