[agi] Grand Cooperative Projects

2010-08-13 Thread Mike Tintner
like this (& the Genome Project): http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/13/health/research/13alzheimer.html?_r=1&th&emc=th should become an ever bigger part of sci. & tech. Of course, with Alzheimer's there is a great deal of commonly recognized ground. Not so with AGI. It might be interesting to spec

Re: [agi] Nao Nao

2010-08-12 Thread Mike Tintner
dized robot communication protocol. So a Nao could talk to a vacuum cleaner or a video cam or any other device that supports the protocol. Companies may resist this at first as they want to grab market share and don't understand the benefit. John From: Mike Tintner [mailto:tint...@blu

Re: [agi] Nao Nao

2010-08-12 Thread Mike Tintner
John, Any more detailed thoughts about its precise handling capabilities? Did it, first, not pick up the duck independently, (without human assistance)? If it did, what do you think would be the range of its object handling? (I had an immediate question about all this - have asked the site f

Re: [agi] Scalable vs Diversifiable

2010-08-11 Thread Mike Tintner
e your idea that AGI has to be diversifiable but your inability to understand certain things that are said about computer programming makes your proclamation look odd. Jim Bromer On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Mike Tintner wrote: Isn't it time that people started adopting true AGI criteria?

[agi] Scalable vs Diversifiable

2010-08-11 Thread Mike Tintner
Isn't it time that people started adopting true AGI criteria? The universal endlessly repeated criterion here that a system must be capable of being "scaled up" is a narrow AI criterion. The proper criterion is "diversifiable." If your system can say navigate a DARPA car through a grid of city

Re: [agi] Compressed Cross-Indexed Concepts

2010-08-10 Thread Mike Tintner
[from: Concept-Rich Mathematics Instruction] Teacher: Very good. Now, look at this drawing and explain what you see. [Draws.] Debora: It's a pie with three pieces. Teacher: Tell us about the pieces. Debora: Three thirds. Teachers: What is the difference among the pieces? Debora: This is t

Re: [agi] Nao Nao

2010-08-09 Thread Mike Tintner
interested corporation or government pays the most for access. Such a sweet little friendly Nao. Everyone should get one :) John From: Mike Tintner [mailto:tint...@blueyonder.co.uk] An unusually sophisticated (& somewhat expensive) promotional robot vid: http://www.t

[agi] Nao Nao

2010-08-09 Thread Mike Tintner
An unusually sophisticated (& somewhat expensive) promotional robot vid: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/7934318/Nao-the-robot-that-expresses-and-detects-emotions.html --- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: h

Re: [agi] How To Create General AI Draft2

2010-08-09 Thread Mike Tintner
al AI Draft2 On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Mike Tintner wrote: Ben: I don't agree that solving vision and the vision-cognition bridge is *such* a huge part of AGI, though it's certainly a nontrivial percentage Presumably because you don't envisage your AGI/computer as an

Re: [agi] How To Create General AI Draft2

2010-08-09 Thread Mike Tintner
Ben: I don't agree that solving vision and the vision-cognition bridge is *such* a huge part of AGI, though it's certainly a nontrivial percentage Presumably because you don't envisage your AGI/computer as an independent entity? All its info. is going to have to be entered into it in a specially

Re: [agi] How To Create General AI Draft2

2010-08-09 Thread Mike Tintner
hair, if you find it by searching for chairs, its likely a chair. etc. You see, chairs are not simply recognized by their physical structure. There are multiple ways you can recognize it and it is certainly important to know that it doesn't seem useful for another task. The idea that

Re: [agi] How To Create General AI Draft2

2010-08-09 Thread Mike Tintner
Subject: Re: [agi] How To Create General AI Draft2 I already stated these. read previous emails. On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 8:48 AM, Mike Tintner wrote: PS Examples of nonphysical patterns AND how they are applicable to visual AGI.? From: David Jones Sent: Monday, August 09, 2010 1:3

Re: [agi] How To Create General AI Draft2

2010-08-09 Thread Mike Tintner
t patterns must be physical? This is exactly why you can't see my point of view. You impose unnecessary restrictions on any possible solution when there really are no such restrictions. Dave On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 7:27 AM, Mike Tintner wrote: John:It can be defined mathematically in

Re: [agi] How To Create General AI Draft2

2010-08-09 Thread Mike Tintner
a physical pattern". LOL. Who ever said that patterns must be physical? This is exactly why you can't see my point of view. You impose unnecessary restrictions on any possible solution when there really are no such restrictions. Dave On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 7:27 AM, Mike Tintner wrot

Re: [agi] How To Create General AI Draft2

2010-08-09 Thread Mike Tintner
How do you reckon that will work for an infant or anyone who has only seen an example or two of the concept class-of-forms? (You're effectively misreading the set of fotos - altho. this needs making clear - a major point of the set is: how will any concept/schema of chair, derived from any se

Re: RE: [agi] How To Create General AI Draft2

2010-08-09 Thread Mike Tintner
which would agree with each instance of a chair in the supplied image - is the way a chair should be defined and is the way the mind processes it. It can be defined mathematically in many ways. There is a particular one I would go for though... John From: Mike Tintner [mailto:tint...@b

Re: [agi] How To Create General AI Draft2

2010-08-09 Thread Mike Tintner
d processes it. It can be defined mathematically in many ways. There is a particular one I would go for though... John From: Mike Tintner [mailto:tint...@blueyonder.co.uk] Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2010 7:28 AM To: agi Subject: Re: [agi] How To Create General AI Draft2 You're w

Re: [agi] How To Create General AI Draft2

2010-08-08 Thread Mike Tintner
x27;t argue with me regarding it anymore. I know your opinion and respectfully disagree. If you don't accept my counter argument, there is no point to continuing this back and forth ad finitum. Dave On Aug 8, 2010 9:29 AM, "Mike Tintner" wrote: You're waffling. Yo

Re: [agi] How To Create General AI Draft2

2010-08-08 Thread Mike Tintner
en updating my paper to make sure these problems are addressed. See more comments below. On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Mike Tintner wrote: 1) You don't define the difference between narrow AI and AGI - or make clear why your approach is one and not the other I removed this because my

Re: [agi] Help requested: Making a list of (non-robotic) AGI low hanging fruit apps

2010-08-07 Thread Mike Tintner
Why don't you kick it off with a suggestion of your own? (I think there are only "lower"/basic *robotic* AGI apps- and suggest no one will come up with any answers for you. Why don't you disprove me?) -- From: "Ben Goertzel" Sent: Sunday, August

Re: [agi] $35 (& 2GB RAM) it is

2010-08-07 Thread Mike Tintner
sounds like a great achievement - or not? From: deepakjnath Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2010 2:55 PM To: agi Subject: Re: [agi] $35 (& 2GB RAM) it is This is done in a university in my city.! :) That is our Education Minister :) cheers, Deepak On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 6:04 PM, Mike Tin

[agi] $35 (& 2GB RAM) it is

2010-08-07 Thread Mike Tintner
http://shockedinvestor.blogspot.com/2010/07/new-35-laptop-unveiled.html --- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/

Re: [agi] How To Create General AI Draft2

2010-08-06 Thread Mike Tintner
1) You don't define the difference between narrow AI and AGI - or make clear why your approach is one and not the other 2) "Learning about the world" won't cut it - vast nos. of progs. claim they can learn about the world - what's the difference between narrow AI and AGI learning? 3) "Breakin

Re: [agi] AGI & Alife

2010-08-06 Thread Mike Tintner
This is on the surface interesting. But I'm kinda dubious about it. I'd like to know exactly what's going on - who or what (what kind of organism) is solving what kind of problem about what? The exact nature of the problem and the solution, not just a general blurb description. If you follow t

Re: [agi] Epiphany - Statements of Stupidity

2010-08-06 Thread Mike Tintner
It sure isn't obvious to me. Besides, if my "statements of stupidity" theory is true, then why even bother building AGIs, because we won't even be able to meaningfully discuss things with them. Steve == On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 2:57 AM, Mike Tintner wrote: sTEVE:I

Re: [agi] Epiphany - Statements of Stupidity

2010-08-06 Thread Mike Tintner
sTEVE:I have posted plenty about "statements of ignorance", our probable inability to comprehend what an advanced intelligence might be "thinking", What will be the SIMPLEST thing that will mark the first sign of AGI ? - Given that there are zero but zero examples of AGI. Don't you think it wo

[agi] Robot Warriors - the closest to real AGI?

2010-08-02 Thread Mike Tintner
[Here's the SciAm article - go see the illustrations too. We should really be discussing all this technologically because it strikes me as the closest to real AGI there is - and probably where we're likely to see the soonest advances] WAR MACHINES Robots on and above the battlefield are bri

Re: [agi] Walker Lake

2010-08-02 Thread Mike Tintner
Steve:How about an international ban on the deployment of all unmanned and automated weapons? You might as well ask for a ban on war (or, perhaps, aggression). I strongly recommend reading the SciAm July 2010 issue on robotic warfare. The US already operates from memory somewhere between 13,00

[agi] Systems AGI -[was: Of Singularities]

2010-08-01 Thread Mike Tintner
Dave:I believe that technological progress has been accelerating for quite some time now. In fact, that is hardly debatable Yes, but that isn't the issue. What Lanier points out is that so far we only have machines that are *fragments* of living systems - rather like those horror movies, wher

[agi] No Shit AI

2010-07-30 Thread Mike Tintner
I write this month to condemn the inventor of the electronic "seeing eye" toilet. Yes, that's right, I'm talking toilets here, doo-doo-stuff, some of which I hopefully won't step in myself over the next few paragraphs. I know there must be more substantive and less objectionable topics to bring

Re: [agi] How do we hear music

2010-07-26 Thread Mike Tintner
es to the memory. And complex and subtle variations of the notes become apparent to the listener as the base notes are already stored in the memory and so no longer new. cheers, Deepak On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 12:54 AM, Mike Tintner wrote: Deepak, No it's basically a distraction

Re: [agi] How do we hear music

2010-07-26 Thread Mike Tintner
[agi] How do we hear music Mike, All chinese look the same for me. But for a chinese person they don't. Why is this? Is there another clue here? Thanks, Deepak On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 9:10 PM, Mike Tintner wrote: David, There must be a fair amount of cog sci/AI analysis of all thi

Re: [agi] How do we hear music

2010-07-26 Thread Mike Tintner
David, There must be a fair amount of cog sci/AI analysis of all this - of how the brain analyses and remembers tunes - and presumably leading theories (as for vision). Do you or anyone know more here? Also, you have noted something of extreme importance, wh. is a lot more than "a step furth

Re: [agi] The Math Behind Creativity

2010-07-25 Thread Mike Tintner
th my kid ... and on and on. The "space thinking" of rationality is superefficient but rigid and useless for AGI. The "open world" of the human, creative mind is highly inefficient by comparison but superflexible and the only way to do AGI. From: rob levy Sent: Monday, July 26, 20

Re: [agi] The Math Behind Creativity

2010-07-25 Thread Mike Tintner
rationalisation - epitomised in current programming - to create and think in a closed space of options, wh. is always artificial in nature]. From: rob levy Sent: Sunday, July 25, 2010 9:16 PM To: agi Subject: Re: [agi] The Math Behind Creativity Not sure how that is useful, or even how it

[agi] The Math Behind Creativity

2010-07-25 Thread Mike Tintner
I came across this, thinking it was going to be an example of maths fantasy, but actually it has a rather nice idea about the mathematics of creativity. The Math Behind Creativity By Chuck Scott on June 15, 2010 The Science of Creativity is based on the following mathematica

Re: [agi] Re: Huge Progress on the Core of AGI

2010-07-24 Thread Mike Tintner
Matt: I mean a neural model with increasingly complex features, as opposed to an algorithmic 3-D model (like video game graphics in reverse). Of course David rejects such ideas ( http://practicalai.org/Prize/Default.aspx ) even though the one proven working vision model uses it. Which is? and

Re: [agi] Re: Huge Progress on the Core of AGI

2010-07-24 Thread Mike Tintner
Huh, Matt? What examples of this "holistic" scene analysis are there (or are you thinking about)? From: Matt Mahoney Sent: Saturday, July 24, 2010 10:25 PM To: agi Subject: Re: [agi] Re: Huge Progress on the Core of AGI David Jones wrote: > I should also mention that I ran into problems main

Re: [agi] How do we hear music

2010-07-23 Thread Mike Tintner
No the answers are not there. That's complete rubbish; You won't be able to produce a point from your collective links that addresses any of the problems listed. You seem blithely unaware that these are all unsolved problems. From: L Detetive Sent: Friday, July 23, 2010 3:54 AM To: agi Subje

Re: [agi] How do we hear music

2010-07-23 Thread Mike Tintner
AFAIK on this forum are actually addressing the problem. I'm sure *you* can too. -- From: "Michael Swan" Sent: Friday, July 23, 2010 8:28 AM To: "agi" Subject: Re: [agi] How do we hear music On Fri, 2010-07-23 a

Re: [agi] Pretty worldchanging

2010-07-23 Thread Mike Tintner
and there is no disk. It's actually not hard to find a computer for $35. People are always throwing away old computers that still work. -- Matt Mahoney, matmaho...@yahoo.com -------- From: Mike Tintner To: agi

[agi] Pretty worldchanging

2010-07-23 Thread Mike Tintner
this strikes me as socially worldchanging if it works - potentially leading to you-ain't-see-nothing-yet changes in world education (& commerce) levels over the next decade: http://www.physorg.com/news199083092.html Any comments on its technical & massproduction viability ? --

Re: [agi] How do we hear music

2010-07-22 Thread Mike Tintner
And maths will handle the examples given : same tunes - different scales, different instruments same face - cartoon, photo same logo - different parts [buildings/ fruits/ human figures] revealing them to be the same - how exactly? Or you could take two arseholes - same kind of object, but

Re: [agi] How do we hear music

2010-07-22 Thread Mike Tintner
Seems to miss the point. How can you recognize a cartoon and a photo of Madonna, despite their radically different point-by-point parts? Because the brain uses fluid schemas - outline structures/frameworks - for both visual and sound images... and this enables it to even in extreme cases ignore

Re: [agi] Re: Huge Progress on the Core of AGI

2010-07-22 Thread Mike Tintner
Predicting the old and predictable [incl in shape and form] is narrow AI. Squaresville. Adapting to the new and unpredictable [incl in shape and form] is AGI. Rock on. From: David Jones Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2010 4:49 PM To: agi Subject: [agi] Re: Huge Progress on the Core of AGI An Upda

Re: [agi] Of definitions and tests of AGI

2010-07-21 Thread Mike Tintner
Infants *start* with general learning skills - they have to extensively discover for themselves how to do most things - control head, reach out, turn over, sit up, crawl, walk - and also have to work out perceptually what the objects they see are, and what they do... and what sounds are, and how

Re: [agi] Of definitions and tests of AGI

2010-07-21 Thread Mike Tintner
-- Matt Mahoney, matmaho...@yahoo.com -------- From: Mike Tintner To: agi Sent: Mon, July 19, 2010 9:07:53 PM Subject: Re: [agi] Of definitions and tests of AGI The issue isn't what a computer can do. The issue is how you structure the computer's or any agent&#x

Re: [agi] The Collective Brain

2010-07-20 Thread Mike Tintner
times" as you say, but most of the time they're forgotten. -- From: "Jan Klauck" Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 1:56 AM To: "agi" Subject: Re: [agi] The Collective Brain Mike Tintner wrote No, the collecti

Re: [agi] The Collective Brain

2010-07-20 Thread Mike Tintner
Ah the collective brain is saying something else as well - wh. is another reason why I was hoping to get a discussion. It's exemplified in the example of the mouse. Actually, Ridley is saying, the complete knowledge to build a mouse does not reside in any individual brain, or indeed by extens

Re: [agi] The Collective Brain

2010-07-20 Thread Mike Tintner
ocial division of labour massively amplifies the productive power of the individual. Plus you get sexual benefits. -- From: "Jan Klauck" Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2010 8:25 PM To: "agi" Subject: Re: [agi] The Collective Brain Mi

[agi] The Collective Brain

2010-07-20 Thread Mike Tintner
http://www.ted.com/talks/matt_ridley_when_ideas_have_sex.html?utm_source=newsletter_weekly_2010-07-20&utm_campaign=newsletter_weekly&utm_medium=email Good lecture worth looking at about how trade - exchange of both goods and ideas - has fostered civilisation. Near the end introduces a v. importan

Re: [agi] Of definitions and tests of AGI

2010-07-19 Thread Mike Tintner
matmaho...@yahoo.com -------- From: Mike Tintner To: agi Sent: Mon, July 19, 2010 2:08:28 PM Subject: Re: [agi] Of definitions and tests of AGI Yes that's what people do, but it's not what programmed computers do. The useful

Re: [agi] Of definitions and tests of AGI

2010-07-19 Thread Mike Tintner
would rephrase "solving any problem" as being able to come up with reasonable approaches and strategies to any problem (just as humans are able to do). On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Mike Tintner wrote: Whaddya mean by "solve the problem of how to solve problems"?

Re: [agi] Of definitions and tests of AGI

2010-07-19 Thread Mike Tintner
roblem" as being able to come up with reasonable approaches and strategies to any problem (just as humans are able to do). On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Mike Tintner wrote: Whaddya mean by "solve the problem of how to solve problems"? Develop a universal approach to solvi

Re: [agi] Of definitions and tests of AGI

2010-07-19 Thread Mike Tintner
Whaddya mean by "solve the problem of how to solve problems"? Develop a universal approach to solving any problem? Or find a method of solving a class of problems? Or what? From: rob levy Sent: Monday, July 19, 2010 1:26 PM To: agi Subject: Re: [agi] Of definitions and tests of AGI Howev

Re: [agi] Of definitions and tests of AGI

2010-07-19 Thread Mike Tintner
ds to build a new system; Just divide the problem, solve it one by one, arrange the pieces and voila. We are missing something fundamentally here. That I believe has to come as a stroke of genius to someone. thanks, Deepak On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Mike Tintner wrote: No, Dav

Re: [agi] Is there any Contest or test to ensure that a System is AGI?

2010-07-19 Thread Mike Tintner
Ian: Suppose I want to know about the characteristics of concrete You seem to think you can know about an object without ever having seen it or physically interacted with it? As long as you have a set of words for the world, you need never have actually experienced or been in the world? You ca

Re: [agi] Of definitions and tests of AGI

2010-07-19 Thread Mike Tintner
ly different movies, you would agree that we have created a true AGI. Yes there are always lot of things we need to do before we reach that level. Its just good to know the destination so that we will know it when it arrives. On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 2:18 AM, Mike Tintner wrote: Jeez, no A

Re: [agi] Of definitions and tests of AGI

2010-07-18 Thread Mike Tintner
test for AGI structure. The ability of a system to understand its environment and underlying sub plots is an important requirement of AGI. Deepak On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 1:14 AM, Mike Tintner wrote: Please explain/expound freely why you're not "convinced" - and indicate wh

Re: [agi] Of definitions and tests of AGI

2010-07-18 Thread Mike Tintner
vinced I am sure. I wanted to know that if there is any consensus on a general problem which can be solved and only solved by a true AGI. Without such a test bench how will we know if we are moving closer or away from our quest. There is no map. Deepak On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 11:50 PM, Mike Tint

[agi] Of definitions and tests of AGI

2010-07-18 Thread Mike Tintner
I realised that what is needed is a *joint* definition *and* range of tests of AGI. Benamin Johnston has submitted one valid test - the toy box problem. (See archives). I have submitted another still simpler valid test - build a rock wall from rocks given, (or fill an earth hole with rocks).

Re: [agi] NL parsing

2010-07-16 Thread Mike Tintner
Mahoney, matmaho...@yahoo.com - Original Message From: Mike Tintner To: agi Sent: Fri, July 16, 2010 11:05:51 AM Subject: Re: [agi] NL parsing Or if you want to be pedantic about caps, the speaker is identifying 3 buffaloes from Buffalo, & 2 from elsewhere

Re: [agi] NL parsing

2010-07-16 Thread Mike Tintner
Or if you want to be pedantic about caps, the speaker is identifying 3 buffaloes from Buffalo, & 2 from elsewhere. Anyone got any other readings? -- From: "Jiri Jelinek" Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 3:12 PM To: "agi" Subject: [agi] NL parsing "

Re: [agi] NL parsing

2010-07-16 Thread Mike Tintner
Either that or the speaker is identifying 8 buffaloes (& no bulls) passing by -- From: "Jiri Jelinek" Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 3:12 PM To: "agi" Subject: [agi] NL parsing "Believe it or not, this sentence is grammatically correct and has mea

Re: [agi] How do we Score Hypotheses?

2010-07-15 Thread Mike Tintner
Sounds like a good explanation of why a body is essential for vision - not just for POV and orientation [up/left/right/down/ towards/ away] but for comparison and yardstick - you do know when your body or parts thereof are moving -and it's not merely touch but the comparison of other objects st

Re: [agi] What is the smallest set of operations that can potentially define everything and how do you combine them ?

2010-07-15 Thread Mike Tintner
when the person was a awake, and dissipated when they were asleep. On Thu, 2010-07-15 at 02:13 +0100, Mike Tintner wrote: A demonstration of global connectedness is - associate with an " O " I get: number, sun, dish, disk, ball, letter, mouth, two fingers, "oh", circl

Re: [agi] What is the smallest set of operations that can potentially define everything and how do you combine them ?

2010-07-14 Thread Mike Tintner
A demonstration of global connectedness is - associate with an " O " I get: number, sun, dish, disk, ball, letter, mouth, two fingers, "oh", circle, wheel, wire coil, outline, station on metro, hole, Kenneth Noland painting, ring, coin, roundabout connecting among other things - language

Re: [agi] What is the smallest set of operations that can potentially define everything and how do you combine them ?

2010-07-14 Thread Mike Tintner
Michael :The brains "slow and unreliable" methods I think are the price paid for generality and innately unreliable hardware Yes to one - nice to see an AGI-er finally starting to join up the dots, instead of simply dismissing the brain's massive difficulties in maintaining a train of thought.

Re: [agi] What is the smallest set of operations that can potentially define everything and how do you combine them ?

2010-07-13 Thread Mike Tintner
Michael: We can't do operations that require 1,000,000 loop iterations. I wish someone would give me a PHD for discovering this ;) It far better describes our differences than any other theory. Michael, This isn't a competitive point - but I think I've made that point several times (and so of

Re: [agi] Re: Huge Progress on the Core of AGI

2010-07-13 Thread Mike Tintner
you *CAN* handle unknown objects. The same type of solution can be applied to many other problems, including AGI. The complete properties of the object or concept may be unknown, but the components that can be used to describe it are usually known. Your claim is baseless. Dave On Tue,

Re: [agi] Re: Huge Progress on the Core of AGI

2010-07-13 Thread Mike Tintner
s and procedures with specified kinds of actions and objects - they cannot deal with unspecified kinds of actions and objects, period. You won't produce any actual examples to the contrary. From: David Jones Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 8:00 PM To: agi Subject: Re: [agi] Re: Huge

Re: [agi] Re: Huge Progress on the Core of AGI

2010-07-13 Thread Mike Tintner
#x27;m not aware of anyone who has any remotely viable proposals here, are you? From: Jim Bromer Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 5:46 PM To: agi Subject: Re: [agi] Re: Huge Progress on the Core of AGI On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 10:07 AM, Mike Tintner wrote: And programs as we know them, don'

Re: [agi] Concepts/ Conceptual paradigms

2010-07-13 Thread Mike Tintner
To summarise: you need a fluid outline for a concept in order to guide a vastly diverse spectrum of lines of action - and lines/delineations of objects. (You can almost but not quite think of this geometrically). --- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/

Re: [agi] Concepts/ Conceptual paradigms

2010-07-13 Thread Mike Tintner
Ah suddenly I realise why flexible/fluid outlines for concepts are an obvious necessity. The reason they seem like a strange rather than obvious idea is that we - and especially AI-ers - tend to think of concepts in terms of subjects that we are reading about - that we are viewing as spectators

[agi] Concepts/ Conceptual paradigms

2010-07-13 Thread Mike Tintner
Just a quick note on what is actually a massive subject & the heart of AGI. I imagine - but do comment - that most of you think when I say that concepts are rough flexible outlines/schemas, "wtf is this weird guy on about ? what's that got to do with serious AI? nonsense" Well, here are some cl

Re: [agi] Re: Huge Progress on the Core of AGI

2010-07-13 Thread Mike Tintner
You seem to be reaching for something important here, but it isn't at all clear what you mean. I would say that any creative activity (incl. pure problemsolving) begins from a *conceptual paradigm* - a v. rough outline - of the form of that activity and the form of its end-product or -procedure

[agi] Cash in on robots

2010-07-12 Thread Mike Tintner
http://www.moneyweek.com/investment-advice/cash-in-on-the-robot-revolution-49024.aspx?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Money%2BMorning http://www.moneyweek.com/investment-advice/share-tips-five-ways-into-the-robotics-sector-49025.aspx --

Re: [agi] Mechanical Analogy for Neural Operation!

2010-07-12 Thread Mike Tintner
One tangential comment. You're still thinking linearly. Machines are linear chains of parts. Cause-and-effect thinking made flesh/metal. With organisms, however you have whole webs of parts acting more or less simultaneously. We will probably need to bring that organic thinking/framework - fie

Re: [agi] Re: Huge Progress on the Core of AGI

2010-07-10 Thread Mike Tintner
oth face the same problems of uncertainty and encoding. Dave On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Mike Tintner wrote: General point: you keep talking as if algorithms *work* for visual AGI - they don't - they simply haven't. Unless you take a set of objects carefully chosen to be closel

Re: [agi] Re: Huge Progress on the Core of AGI

2010-07-10 Thread Mike Tintner
in terms of processing. Especially because you haven't defined how you're going to decide what to transform and what not to. So, before you can even use this algorithm, you're going to have to use something else to decide what is a possible candidate and what is not. On Fri

Re: [agi] Re: Huge Progress on the Core of AGI

2010-07-09 Thread Mike Tintner
hemas or even how to approach the task of figuring it out. Until then, its not a solution to anything. Dave On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Mike Tintner wrote: If fluid schemas - speaking broadly - are what is needed, (and I'm pretty sure they are), it's n.g. trying for somet

Re: [agi] Re: Huge Progress on the Core of AGI

2010-07-09 Thread Mike Tintner
ubject: Re: [agi] Re: Huge Progress on the Core of AGI On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Mike Tintner wrote: Couple of quick comments (I'm still thinking about all this - but I'm confident everything AGI links up here). A fluid schema is arguably by its v. nature a method - a

Re: [agi] Re: Huge Progress on the Core of AGI

2010-07-09 Thread Mike Tintner
philosophical rethinking is required. From: David Jones Sent: Friday, July 09, 2010 1:56 PM To: agi Subject: Re: [agi] Re: Huge Progress on the Core of AGI Mike, On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 6:52 PM, Mike Tintner wrote: Isn't the first problem simply to differentiate the objects in a sce

Re: [agi] Re: Huge Progress on the Core of AGI

2010-07-08 Thread Mike Tintner
Isn't the first problem simply to differentiate the objects in a scene? (Maybe the most important movement to begin with is not the movement of the object, but of the viewer changing their POV if only slightly - wh. won't be a factor if you're "looking" at a screen) And that I presume comes

Re: [agi] masterpiece on an iPad

2010-07-02 Thread Mike Tintner
he hand can draw that the camera can't From: Matt Mahoney Sent: Friday, July 02, 2010 2:21 PM To: agi Subject: Re: [agi] masterpiece on an iPad It could be done a lot faster if the iPad had a camera. -- Matt Mahoney, matmaho...@yahoo.com ----

Re: [agi] masterpiece on an iPad

2010-07-02 Thread Mike Tintner
be done a lot faster if the iPad had a camera. -- Matt Mahoney, matmaho...@yahoo.com ---- From: Mike Tintner To: agi Sent: Fri, July 2, 2010 6:28:58 AM Subject: [agi] masterpiece on an iPad http://www.teleg

Re: [agi] Open Sets vs Closed Sets

2010-07-02 Thread Mike Tintner
that are not representative of the environment though. The example I just gave is a completely open set, yet an algorithm could handle such an open set, and I am designing for it. So, your claim that no one is studying or handling such things is not right. Dave On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 8:58 AM,

[agi] masterpiece on an iPad

2010-07-02 Thread Mike Tintner
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturevideo/artvideo/7865736/Artist-creates-masterpiece-on-an-iPad.html McLuhan argues that touch is the central sense - the one that binds the others. He may be right. The i-devices integrate touch into intelligence. -

Re: [agi] Open Sets vs Closed Sets

2010-06-30 Thread Mike Tintner
of metaphor. That's my opinion. Jim Bromer On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 8:58 AM, Mike Tintner wrote: I'd like opinions on terminology here. IMO the opposition of closed sets vs open sets is fundamental to the difference between narrow AI and AGI. However I notice that these terms

Re: [agi] Open Sets vs Closed Sets

2010-06-30 Thread Mike Tintner
y opinion. Jim Bromer On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 8:58 AM, Mike Tintner wrote: I'd like opinions on terminology here. IMO the opposition of closed sets vs open sets is fundamental to the difference between narrow AI and AGI. However I notice that these terms have different meanin

[agi] Open Sets vs Closed Sets

2010-06-30 Thread Mike Tintner
I'd like opinions on terminology here. IMO the opposition of closed sets vs open sets is fundamental to the difference between narrow AI and AGI. However I notice that these terms have different meanings to mine in maths. What I mean is: closed set: contains a definable number and *kinds/speci

Re: [agi] A Primary Distinction for an AGI

2010-06-29 Thread Mike Tintner
ze completely new objects without any training except for simply observing them in their natural state. I wish people understood this better. Dave On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Mike Tintner wrote: Just off the cuff here - isn't the same true for vision? You can't learn vision from v

Re: [agi] A Primary Distinction for an AGI

2010-06-29 Thread Mike Tintner
Just off the cuff here - isn't the same true for vision? You can't learn vision from vision. Just as all NLP has no connection with the real world, and totally relies on the human programmer's knowledge of that world. Your visual program actually relies totally on your visual "vocabulary" - not

Re: [agi] A Primary Distinction for an AGI

2010-06-29 Thread Mike Tintner
ction for an AGI On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Mike Tintner wrote: Inanimate objects normally move *regularly,* in *patterned*/*pattern* ways, and *predictably.* Animate objects normally move *irregularly*, * in *patchy*/*patchwork* ways, and *unbleedingpredictably* . This pres

Re: [agi] A Primary Distinction for an AGI

2010-06-28 Thread Mike Tintner
omer Sent: Monday, June 28, 2010 6:35 PM To: agi Subject: Re: [agi] A Primary Distinction for an AGI On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Mike Tintner wrote: Inanimate objects normally move *regularly,* in *patterned*/*pattern* ways, and *predictably.* Animate objects normally

[agi] A Primary Distinction for an AGI

2010-06-28 Thread Mike Tintner
The recent Core of AGI exchange has led me IMO to a beautiful conclusion - to one of the most basic distinctions a real AGI system must make, and also a simple way of distinguishing between narrow AI and real AGI projects of any kind. Consider - you have a) Dave's square moving across a scre

Re: [agi] Huge Progress on the Core of AGI

2010-06-28 Thread Mike Tintner
you would more than likely lose. The stock market is another situation where narrow-AI algorithms may already outperform humans ... certainly they outperform all except the very best humans... ... ben g On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 7:33 PM, Mike Tintner wrote: Oh well that settles it...

Re: [agi] Huge Progress on the Core of AGI

2010-06-27 Thread Mike Tintner
e to try it. However, there are chess programs that can beat the majority of people who play chess without outside assistance. Jim Bromer On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Mike Tintner wrote: Well, Ben, I'm glad you're "quite sure" because you haven't given a single

Re: [agi] Huge Progress on the Core of AGI

2010-06-27 Thread Mike Tintner
nstructed to beat humans at Pong ;p ... without teaching us much of anything about intelligence... Very likely a narrow-AI machine learning system could *learn* by experience to beat humans at Pong ... also without teaching us much of anything about intelligence... Pong is almost surely a "

Re: [agi] Huge Progress on the Core of AGI

2010-06-27 Thread Mike Tintner
nce for this conclusion when we see the two windows side by side. If we see the old window with the content still intact we will realize that clicking the icon did not seem to have cleared it. Dave On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Jim Bromer wrote: On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Mike Ti

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