[agi] Re: High Frame Rates Reduce Uncertainty

2010-06-21 Thread David Jones
regarding how the brain is able to learn in such an ambiguous world with so many variables that are difficult to disambiguate, interpret and understand. Dave On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 2:19 PM, David Jones davidher...@gmail.com wrote: I just came up with an awesome idea. I just realized that the brain

Re: [agi] Re: High Frame Rates Reduce Uncertainty

2010-06-21 Thread David Jones
...@yahoo.com -- *From:* David Jones davidher...@gmail.com *To:* agi agi@v2.listbox.com *Sent:* Mon, June 21, 2010 9:39:30 AM *Subject:* [agi] Re: High Frame Rates Reduce Uncertainty Ignoring Steve because we are simply going to have to agree to disagree... And I don't see

Re: [agi] High Frame Rates Reduce Uncertainty

2010-06-21 Thread David Jones
are more likely to detect motion in objects that you recognize and expect to move, like people, animals, cars, etc. -- Matt Mahoney, matmaho...@yahoo.com From: David Jones davidher...@gmail.com To: agi agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Mon, June 21

Re: [agi] An alternative plan to discover self-organization theory

2010-06-21 Thread David Jones
Rob, Real evolution had full freedom to evolve. Genetic algorithms usually don't. If they did, the number of calculations it would have to make to really simulate evolution on the scale that created us would be so astronomical, it would not be possible. So, what matt said is absolutely correct.

Re: [agi] Questions for an AGI

2010-06-24 Thread David Jones
I get the impression from this question that you think an AGI is some sort of all-knowing, idealistic invention. It is sort of like asking if you could ask the internet anything, what would you ask it?. Uhhh, lots of stuff, like how do I get wine stains out of white carpet :). AGI's will not be

Re: [agi] The problem with AGI per Sloman

2010-06-24 Thread David Jones
I have to agree that a big problem with the field is a lack of understanding of the problems and how they should be solved. I see too many people pursuing solutions to poorly defined problems and without defining why the solution solves the problem. I even see people pursuing solutions to the

Re: [agi] The problem with AGI per Sloman

2010-06-24 Thread David Jones
Mike, I think your idealistic view of how AGI should be pursued does not work in reality. What is your approach that fits all your criteria? I'm sure that any such approach would be severely flawed as well. Dave On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Mike Tintner tint...@blueyonder.co.ukwrote:

Re: [agi] The problem with AGI per Sloman

2010-06-24 Thread David Jones
realistic still. *From:* David Jones davidher...@gmail.com *Sent:* Thursday, June 24, 2010 6:22 PM *To:* agi agi@v2.listbox.com *Subject:* Re: [agi] The problem with AGI per Sloman Mike, I think your idealistic view of how AGI should be pursued does not work in reality. What is your approach

[agi] Huge Progress on the Core of AGI

2010-06-26 Thread David Jones
A method for comparing hypotheses in explanatory-based reasoning: * We prefer the hypothesis or explanation that ***expects* more observations. If both explanations expect the same observations, then the simpler of the two is preferred (because the unnecessary terms of the more complicated

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

2010-06-27 Thread David Jones
examples of it are nice... Eric Baum's whole book What Is thought is sort of an explanation of this idea in a human biology and psychology and AI context ;) ben On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 1:31 AM, David Jones davidher...@gmail.comwrote: A method for comparing hypotheses in explanatory-based

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

2010-06-27 Thread David Jones
lol. Mike, What I was trying to express by the word *expect* is NOT predict [some exact outcome]. Expect means that the algorithm has a way of comparing observations to what the algorithm considers to be consistent with an explanation. This is something I struggled to solve for a long time

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

2010-06-27 Thread David Jones
with a rule that eliminates the very potential of possibilities as a *general* rule of intelligence) shows that you don't fully understand the problem. Jim Bromer On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 1:31 AM, David Jones davidher...@gmail.comwrote: A method for comparing hypotheses in explanatory-based

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

2010-06-27 Thread David Jones
Mike, you are mixing multiple issues. Just like my analogy of the rubix cube, full AGI problems involve many problems at the same time. The problem I wrote this email about was not about how to solve them all at the same time. It was about how to solve one of those problems. After solving the

Re: [agi] A Primary Distinction for an AGI

2010-06-28 Thread David Jones
Mike, Alive vs. dead? As I've said before, there is no actual difference. It is not a qualitative difference that makes something alive or dead. It is a quantitative difference. They are both controlled by physics. I don't mean the nice clean physics rules that we approximate things with, I mean

Re: [agi] A Primary Distinction for an AGI

2010-06-28 Thread David Jones
Yeah. I forgot to mention that robots are not aalive yet could act indistinguishably from what is alive. The concept of alive is likely something that requires inductive type reasoning and generalization to learn. Categorization, similarity analysis, etc could assist in making such distinctions as

[agi] The true AGI Distinction

2010-06-28 Thread David Jones
In case anyone missed it... Problems are not AGI. Solutions are. And AGI is not the right adjective anyway. The correct word is general. In other words, generally applicable to other problems. I repeat, Mike, you are * wrong*. Did anyone miss that? To recap, it has nothing to do with what problem

Re: [agi] A Primary Distinction for an AGI

2010-06-28 Thread David Jones
my strategy to the alternatives. Dave On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 3:56 PM, David Jones davidher...@gmail.com wrote: That does not have to be the case. Yes, you need to know what problems you might have in more complicated domains to avoid developing completely useless theories on toy problems

Re: [agi] A Primary Distinction for an AGI

2010-06-28 Thread David Jones
. It is great at certain narrow applications, but no where near where it needs to be for AGI. Dave On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Russell Wallace russell.wall...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 8:56 PM, David Jones davidher...@gmail.com wrote: Having experience with the full problem

Re: [agi] A Primary Distinction for an AGI

2010-06-28 Thread David Jones
, do not require more info because that is where the experience comes from. On Jun 28, 2010 8:52 PM, Matt Mahoney matmaho...@yahoo.com wrote: David Jones wrote: I also want to mention that I develop solutions to the toy problems with the re... A little research will show you the folly

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

2010-06-29 Thread David Jones
If anyone has any knowledge of or references to the state of the art in explanation-based reasoning, can you send me keywords or links? I've read some through google, but I'm not really satisfied with anything I've found. Thanks, Dave On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 1:31 AM, David Jones davidher

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

2010-06-29 Thread David Jones
29, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Matt Mahoney matmaho...@yahoo.com wrote: David Jones wrote: If anyone has any knowledge of or references to the state of the art in explanation-based reasoning, can you send me keywords or links? The simplest explanation of the past is the best predictor of the future

Re: [agi] A Primary Distinction for an AGI

2010-06-29 Thread David Jones
the verbal/letter signals involved in NLP are. What you need to do - what anyone in your situation with anything like your asprations needs to do - is to hook up with a roboticist. Everyone here should be doing that. *From:* David Jones davidher...@gmail.com *Sent:* Tuesday, June 29, 2010 5

Re: [agi] A Primary Distinction for an AGI

2010-06-29 Thread David Jones
at 2:51 PM, Matt Mahoney matmaho...@yahoo.com wrote: David Jones wrote: I wish people understood this better. For example, animals can be intelligent even though they lack language because they can see. True, but an AGI with language skills is more useful than one without. And yes, I realize

Re: [agi] A Primary Distinction for an AGI

2010-06-29 Thread David Jones
the purpose of text is to convey something. It has to be interpreted. who cares about predicting the next word if you can't interpret a single bit of it. On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 3:43 PM, David Jones davidher...@gmail.com wrote: People do not predict the next words of text. We anticipate

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

2010-06-29 Thread David Jones
. These examples don't really show anything. Dave On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Matt Mahoney matmaho...@yahoo.com wrote: David Jones wrote: I really don't think this is the right way to calculate simplicity. I will give you an example, because examples are more convincing than proofs

Re: [agi] A Primary Distinction for an AGI

2010-06-29 Thread David Jones
applicable to general vision? Get thee to a roboticist, make contact with the real world. Get yourself to a psychologist so that they can show you how flawed your reasoning is. Fallacy upon fallacy. You are not in touch with reality. *From:* David Jones davidher...@gmail.com *Sent:* Tuesday

Re: [agi] A Primary Distinction for an AGI

2010-06-29 Thread David Jones
Scratch my statement about it being useless :) It's useful, but no where near sufficient for AGI like understanding. On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 4:58 PM, David Jones davidher...@gmail.com wrote: notice how you said *context* of the conversation. The context is the real world, and is completely

Re: [agi] Open Sets vs Closed Sets

2010-07-02 Thread David Jones
narrow AI is a term that describes the solution to a problem, not the problem. It is a solution with a narrow scope. General AI on the other hand should have a much larger scope than narrow ai and be able to handle unforseen circumstances. What I don't think you realize is that open sets can be

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

2010-07-02 Thread David Jones
Nice Occam's Razor argument. I understood it simply because I knew there are always an infinite number of possible explanations for every observation that are more complicated than the simplest explanation. So, without a reason to choose one of those other interpretations, then why choose it? You

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

2010-07-08 Thread David Jones
less general solutions for multiple problem types and environments. The best way to do this is to choose representative case studies to solve and make sure the solutions are truth-tropic and justified for the environments they are to be applied. Dave On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 1:31 AM, David Jones

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

2010-07-08 Thread David Jones
puddle in the middle of the desert :). Dave On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 3:17 PM, David Jones davidher...@gmail.com wrote: I've learned something really interesting today. I realized that general rules of inference probably don't really exists. There is no such thing as complete generality

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

2010-07-08 Thread David Jones
visual processing algorithm. Learning algorithms suffer similar environment-dependence, but (by their nature) not as severe... --Abram On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 3:17 PM, David Jones davidher...@gmail.com wrote: I've learned something really interesting today. I realized that general rules

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

2010-07-08 Thread David Jones
a specified portion of video given a different portion. Do you object to this approach? --Abram On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 5:30 PM, David Jones davidher...@gmail.com wrote: It may not be possible to create a learning algorithm that can learn how to generally process images and other general AGI problems

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

2010-07-09 Thread David Jones
Mike, On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 6:52 PM, Mike Tintner tint...@blueyonder.co.ukwrote: Isn't the first problem simply to differentiate the objects in a scene? Well, that is part of the movement problem. If you say something moved, you are also saying that the objects in the two or more video

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

2010-07-09 Thread David Jones
the world will be like. They aren't able to learn about any world. They are optimized to configure their brains for this world. *From:* David Jones davidher...@gmail.com *Sent:* Friday, July 09, 2010 1:56 PM *To:* agi agi@v2.listbox.com *Subject:* Re: [agi] Re: Huge Progress on the Core of AGI

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

2010-07-09 Thread David Jones
as a more primary sense, well before it got to vision. *Or perhaps it may prove better to start with robot snakes/bodies or somesuch. *From:* David Jones davidher...@gmail.com *Sent:* Friday, July 09, 2010 3:22 PM *To:* agi agi@v2.listbox.com *Subject:* Re: [agi] Re: Huge Progress

Re: [agi] Solomonoff Induction is Not Universal and Probability is not Prediction

2010-07-09 Thread David Jones
Although I haven't studied Solomonoff induction yet, although I plan to read up on it, I've realized that people seem to be making the same mistake I was. People are trying to find one silver bullet method of induction or learning that works for everything. I've begun to realize that its OK if

Re: [agi] Solomonoff Induction is Not Universal and Probability is not Prediction

2010-07-09 Thread David Jones
a single silver bullet, the more we will just break against the fact that none exists. On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 11:35 AM, David Jones davidher...@gmail.com wrote: Although I haven't studied Solomonoff induction yet, although I plan to read up on it, I've realized that people seem to be making

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

2010-07-09 Thread David Jones
certainly didn't have one. *From:* David Jones davidher...@gmail.com *Sent:* Friday, July 09, 2010 4:20 PM *To:* agi agi@v2.listbox.com *Subject:* Re: [agi] Re: Huge Progress on the Core of AGI Mike, Please outline your algorithm for fluid schemas though. It will be clear when you do

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

2010-07-10 Thread David Jones
Mike, Using the image itself as a template to match is possible. In fact it has been done before. But it suffers from several problems that would also need solving. 1) Images are 2D. I assume you are also referring to 2D outlines. Real objects are 3D. So, you're going to have to infer the shape

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

2010-07-10 Thread David Jones
I accidentally pressed something and it sent it early... this is a finished version: Mike, Using the image itself as a template to match is possible. In fact it has been done before. But it suffers from several problems that would also need solving. 1) Images are 2D. I assume you are also

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

2010-07-10 Thread David Jones
* in theory absolute setform=freeform nonsense, you will in practice always, always stick to setform objects. Some part of you knows the v.obvious truth ). *From:* David Jones davidher...@gmail.com *Sent:* Saturday, July 10, 2010 3:51 PM *To:* agi agi@v2.listbox.com *Subject:* Re: [agi] Re

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

2010-07-10 Thread David Jones
On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Mike Tintner tint...@blueyonder.co.ukwrote: Dave:You can't solve the problems with your approach either This is based on knowledge of what examples? Zero? It is based on the fact that you have refused to show how you deal with uncertainty. You haven't even

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

2010-07-11 Thread David Jones
Thanks Abram, I know that probability is one approach. But there are many problems with using it in actual implementations. I know a lot of people will be angered by that statement and retort with all the successes that they have had using probability. But, the truth is that you can solve the

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

2010-07-13 Thread David Jones
Abram, Thanks for the clarification Abram. I don't have a single way to deal with uncertainty. I try not to decide on a method ahead of time because what I really want to do is analyze the problems and find a solution. But, at the same time. I have looked at the probabilistic approaches and they

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

2010-07-13 Thread David Jones
Mike, you are so full of it. There is a big difference between *can* and *don't*. You have no proof that programs can't handle anything you say that can't. On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Mike Tintner tint...@blueyonder.co.ukwrote: The first thing is to acknowledge that programs *don't*

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

2010-07-13 Thread David Jones
Mike, see below. On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Mike Tintner tint...@blueyonder.co.ukwrote: The first thing is to acknowledge that programs *don't* handle concepts - if you think they do, you must give examples. The reasons they can't, as presently conceived, is a) concepts encase a

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

2010-07-13 Thread David Jones
It includes a (short-ish?) section comparing the pros/cons of MDL and Bayesianism, and examining some of the mathematical linkings between them-- with the aim of showing that MDL is a broader principle. I disagree there, of course. :) --Abram On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 10:01 AM, David Jones davidher

[agi] How do we Score Hypotheses?

2010-07-13 Thread David Jones
I've been trying to figure out how to score hypotheses. Do you guys have any constructive ideas about how to define the way you score hypotheses like these a little better? I'll define the problem below in detail. I know Abram mentioned MDL, which I'm about to look into. Does that even apply to

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

2010-07-13 Thread David Jones
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 davidher...@gmail.com *Sent:* Tuesday, July 13, 2010 8:00 PM *To:* agi agi@v2.listbox.com *Subject

Re: [agi] How do we Score Hypotheses?

2010-07-14 Thread David Jones
What do you mean by definitive events? I guess the first problem I see with my approach is that the movement of the window is also a hypothesis. I need to analyze it in more detail and see how the tree of hypotheses affects the hypotheses regarding the es on the windows. What I believe is that

Re: [agi] How do we Score Hypotheses?

2010-07-14 Thread David Jones
of hypotheses, conflicts and unexpected observations until we find a good hypothesis. Something like that. I'm attempting to construct an algorithm for doing this as I analyze specific problems. Dave On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 10:22 AM, David Jones davidher...@gmail.com wrote: What do you mean

Re: [agi] How do we Score Hypotheses?

2010-07-15 Thread David Jones
(although not as simple as black squares :) ) and work my way up again. Dave On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 12:59 PM, David Jones davidher...@gmail.com wrote: Actually, I just realized that there is a way to included inductive knowledge and experience into this algorithm. Inductive knowledge

Re: [agi] How do we Score Hypotheses?

2010-07-15 Thread David Jones
) of the description of the hypothesis. The value is language dependent, so this method is not perfect. -- Matt Mahoney, matmaho...@yahoo.com -- *From:* David Jones davidher...@gmail.com *To:* agi agi@v2.listbox.com *Sent:* Thu, July 15, 2010 10:22:44 AM *Subject:* Re

Re: [agi] How do we Score Hypotheses?

2010-07-15 Thread David Jones
, Jul 14, 2010 at 10:22 AM, David Jones davidher...@gmail.comwrote: What do you mean by definitive events? I was just trying to find a way to designate obsverations that would be reliably obvious to a computer program. This has something to do with the assumptions that you are using

Re: [agi] How do we Score Hypotheses?

2010-07-15 Thread David Jones
in a body becomes. *From:* David Jones davidher...@gmail.com *Sent:* Thursday, July 15, 2010 5:54 PM *To:* agi agi@v2.listbox.com *Subject:* Re: [agi] How do we Score Hypotheses? Jim, even that isn't an obvious event. You don't know what is background and what is not. You don't even know

Re: [agi] NL parsing

2010-07-16 Thread David Jones
This is actually a great example of why we should not try to write AGI as something able to solve any possible problem generally. We, strong ai agents, are not able to understand this sentence without quite a lot more information. Likewise, we shouldn't expect a general AI to try many

Re: [agi] NL parsing

2010-07-16 Thread David Jones
likely to for a v. v. long time. *From:* David Jones davidher...@gmail.com *Sent:* Friday, July 16, 2010 4:35 PM *To:* agi agi@v2.listbox.com *Subject:* Re: [agi] NL parsing This is actually a great example of why we should not try to write AGI as something able to solve any possible

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

2010-07-18 Thread David Jones
not really. On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 9:41 AM, deepakjnath deepakjn...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, but is there a competition like the XPrize or something that we can work towards. ? On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 6:40 PM, Panu Horsmalahti nawi...@gmail.comwrote: 2010/7/18 deepakjnath

Re: [agi] Of definitions and tests of AGI

2010-07-18 Thread David Jones
If you can't convince someone, clearly something is wrong with it. I don't think a test is the right way to do this. Which is why I haven't commented much. When you understand how to create AGI, it will be obvious that it is AGI or that it is what you intend it to be. You'll then understand how

Re: [agi] Of definitions and tests of AGI

2010-07-18 Thread David Jones
Deepak, I think you would be much better off focusing on something more practical. Understanding a movie and all the myriad things going on, their significance, etc... that's AI complete. There is no way you are going to get there without a hell of a lot of steps in between. So, you might as well

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

2010-07-18 Thread David Jones
Ian, Although most people see natural language as one of the most important parts of AGI, if you think about it carefully, you'll realize that solving natural language could be done with sufficient knowledge of the world and sufficient ability to learn this knowledge automatically. That's why i

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

2010-07-18 Thread David Jones
knowledge to say that one hypothesis is better than another in the vast majority of cases. The AI doesn't have sufficient *reason* to think that the right hypothesis is better than others. The only way to give it that sufficient reason is to give it sufficient knowledge. Dave 2010/7/18 David Jones

Re: [agi] Of definitions and tests of AGI

2010-07-21 Thread David Jones
Training data is not available in many real problems. I don't think training data should be used as the main learning mechanism. It likely won't solve any of the problems. On Jul 21, 2010 2:52 AM, deepakjnath deepakjn...@gmail.com wrote: Yes we could do a 4x4 tic tac toe game like this in a PC.

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

2010-07-22 Thread David Jones
An Update I think the following gets to the heart of general AI and what it takes to achieve it. It also provides us with evidence as to why general AI is so difficult. With this new knowledge in mind, I think I will be much more capable now of solving the problems and making it work. I've

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

2010-07-22 Thread David Jones
Because simpler is not better if it is less predictive. On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Abram Demski abramdem...@gmail.com wrote: Jim, Why more predictive *and then* simpler? --Abram On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 11:49 AM, David Jones davidher...@gmail.comwrote: An Update I think

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

2010-07-22 Thread David Jones
simpler when it is smaller, then you can do the same thing without a program. I don't think it makes any sense to do it this way. It is not that simple. If it was, we could solve a large portion of agi easily. On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Matt Mahoney matmaho...@yahoo.com wrote: David Jones

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

2010-07-24 Thread David Jones
lol. thanks Jim :) On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 10:08 PM, Jim Bromer jimbro...@gmail.com wrote: I have to say that I am proud of David Jone's efforts. He has really matured during these last few months. I'm kidding but I really do respect the fact that he is actively experimenting. I want to

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

2010-07-24 Thread David Jones
of for measuring the predictiveness? I can think of a few different possibilities (such as measuring number incorrect vs measuring fraction incorrect, et cetera) but I'm wondering which variations you consider significant/troublesome/etc. --Abram On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 7:12 PM, David Jones

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

2010-07-24 Thread David Jones
, David Jones davidher...@gmail.comwrote: It's certainly not as simple as you claim. First, assigning a probability is not always possible, nor is it easy. The factors in calculating that probability are unknown and are not the same for every instance. Since we do not know what combination

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

2010-07-24 Thread David Jones
Matt, Any method must deal with similar, if not the same, ambiguities. You need to show how neural nets solve this problem or how they solve agi goals while completely skipping the problem. Until then, it is not a successful method. Dave On Jul 24, 2010 7:18 PM, Matt Mahoney

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

2010-07-24 Thread David Jones
Check this out! The title Space and time, not surface features, guide object persistence says it all. http://pbr.psychonomic-journals.org/content/14/6/1199.full.pdf Over just the last couple days I have begun to realize that they are so right. My idea before of using high frame rates is also

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

2010-07-24 Thread David Jones
that the brain uses hierarchical features LOL Dave On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 11:52 PM, David Jones davidher...@gmail.com wrote: Check this out! The title Space and time, not surface features, guide object persistence says it all. http://pbr.psychonomic-journals.org/content/14/6/1199.full.pdf Over

Re: [agi] Clues to the Mind: Illusions / Vision

2010-07-24 Thread David Jones
Yes. I think I may have discovered the keys to crack this puzzle wide open. The brain seems to use simplistic heuristics for depth perception and surface bounding. Once it has that, it can apply the spaciotemporal heuristic I mentioned in other emails to identify and track an object, which allows

Re: [agi] Clues to the Mind: What do you think is the reason for selective attention

2010-07-25 Thread David Jones
clues in to how the brain compresses and uses the relevant information while neglecting the irrelevant information. But as Anast has demonstrated, the brain does need priming inorder to decide what is relevant and irrelevant. :) Cheers, Deepak On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 5:34 AM, David Jones

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

2010-07-26 Thread David Jones
Sure. Thanks Arthur. On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 10:42 AM, A. T. Murray menti...@scn.org wrote: David Jones wrote: Arthur, Thanks. I appreciate that. I would be happy to aggregate some of those things. I am sometimes not good at maintaining the website because I get bored of maintaining

Re: [agi] How do we hear music

2010-07-26 Thread David Jones
Deepak, I have some insight on this question. There was a study regarding change blindness. One of the study's famous experiments was having a person ask for directions on a college campus. Then in the middle of this, a door would pass between the person asking directions and the student giving

Re: [agi] Clues to the Mind: Learning Ability

2010-07-28 Thread David Jones
:) Intelligence isn't limited to higher cognitive functions. One could say a virus is intelligent or alive because it can replicate itself. Intelligence is not just one function or ability, it can be many different things. But mostly, for us, it comes down to what the system can accomplish for

Re: [agi] Walker Lake

2010-08-02 Thread David Jones
How about you go to war yourself or send your children. I'd rather send a robot. It's safer for both the soldier and the people on the ground because you don't have to shoot first, ask questions later. And you're right, we shouldn't monitor anyone. We should just allow terrorists to talk openly

Re: [agi] Shhh!

2010-08-02 Thread David Jones
Abram Wrote: I take this as evidence that there is a very strong mental landscape... if you go in a particular direction there is a natural series of landmarks, including both great ideas and pitfalls that everyone runs into. (Different people take different amounts of time to climb out of

Re: [agi] Computer Vision not as hard as I thought!

2010-08-04 Thread David Jones
into them. On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Jim Bromer jimbro...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 11:52 AM, David Jones davidher...@gmail.comwrote: I've suddenly realized that computer vision of real images is very much solvable and that it is now just a matter of engineering

Re: [agi] Computer Vision not as hard as I thought!

2010-08-04 Thread David Jones
shifts from absolute values to rates of change. Steve === On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 8:52 AM, David Jones davidher...@gmail.com wrote: I've suddenly realized that computer vision of real images is very much solvable and that it is now just a matter of engineering. I was so stuck

Re: [agi] Computer Vision not as hard as I thought!

2010-08-04 Thread David Jones
, but it fits the neat definition better than it meets the scruffy definition. Scruffy has more to do with people-programmed ad hoc approaches (like most of AGI), which I agree are a waste of time. Steve On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 12:43 PM, David Jones davidher...@gmail.comwrote: Steve, I

Re: [agi] Computer Vision not as hard as I thought!

2010-08-04 Thread David Jones
steve.richfi...@gmail.comwrote: David On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 1:16 PM, David Jones davidher...@gmail.com wrote: 3) requires manually created training data, which is a major problem. Where did this come from. Certainly, people are ill equipped to create dP/dt type data. These would have to come

Re: [agi] Computer Vision not as hard as I thought!

2010-08-04 Thread David Jones
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 6:17 PM, Steve Richfield steve.richfi...@gmail.comwrote: David, On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 1:45 PM, David Jones davidher...@gmail.com wrote: Understanding what you are trying to accomplish and how you want the system to work comes first, not math. It's all the same

Re: [agi] Computer Vision not as hard as I thought!

2010-08-06 Thread David Jones
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 7:37 PM, Jim Bromer jimbro...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 9:27 AM, David Jones davidher...@gmail.com wrote: *So, why computer vision? Why can't we just enter knowledge manually? * a) The knowledge we require for AI to do what we want is vast and complex

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

2010-08-07 Thread David Jones
Hey Ben, Faster, cheaper, and more robust 3D modeling for the movie industry. The modeling allows different sources of video content to be extracted from scenes, manipulated and mixed with others. The movie industry has the money and motivation to extract data from images. Making it easier, more

Re: [agi] How To Create General AI Draft2

2010-08-07 Thread David Jones
PM, David Jones davidher...@gmail.comwrote: Hey Guys, I've been working on writing out my approach to create general AI to share and debate it with others in the field. I've attached my second draft of it in PDF format, if you guys are at all interested. It's still a work in progress

Re: [agi] How To Create General AI Draft2

2010-08-07 Thread David Jones
Mike, I took your comments into consideration and have been 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 tint...@blueyonder.co.ukwrote: 1) You don't define the difference between narrow AI and AGI - or make

Re: [agi] How To Create General AI Draft2

2010-08-08 Thread David Jones
. He/It is a freeform designer. You have to start thinking outside the box/brick/fundamental unit. *From:* David Jones davidher...@gmail.com *Sent:* Sunday, August 08, 2010 5:12 AM *To:* agi agi@v2.listbox.com *Subject:* Re: [agi] How To Create General AI Draft2 Mike, I took your comments

Re: [agi] How To Create General AI Draft2

2010-08-08 Thread David Jones
. *From:* David Jones davidher...@gmail.com *Sent:* Sunday, August 08, 2010 1:59 PM To: agi Subject: Re: [agi] How To Create General AI Draft2 Mike, We've argued about this over and over and over. I don't want to repeat previous arguments to you. You have no proof that the world cannot

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

2010-08-09 Thread David Jones
and through. *From:* David Jones davidher...@gmail.com *Sent:* Sunday, August 08, 2010 1:59 PM *To:* agi agi@v2.listbox.com *Subject:* Re: [agi] How To Create General AI Draft2 Mike, We've argued about this over and over and over. I don't want to repeat previous arguments to you. You

Re: [agi] How To Create General AI Draft2

2010-08-09 Thread David Jones
You see. This is precisely why I don't want to argue with Mike anymore. it must be 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

Re: [agi] How To Create General AI Draft2

2010-08-09 Thread David Jones
I already stated these. read previous emails. On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 8:48 AM, Mike Tintner tint...@blueyonder.co.ukwrote: PS Examples of nonphysical patterns AND how they are applicable to visual AGI.? *From:* David Jones davidher...@gmail.com *Sent:* Monday, August 09, 2010 1:34 PM

Re: [agi] How To Create General AI Draft2

2010-08-09 Thread David Jones
useful for another task. The idea that chairs cannot be recognized because they come in all shapes, sizes and structures is just wrong. Dave On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 8:47 AM, Mike Tintner tint...@blueyonder.co.ukwrote: Examples of nonphysical patterns? *From:* David Jones davidher...@gmail.com

Re: [agi] How To Create General AI Draft2

2010-08-09 Thread David Jones
- and must embrace many diverse forms that strings may be shaped into. *From:* David Jones davidher...@gmail.com *Sent:* Monday, August 09, 2010 2:13 PM *To:* agi agi@v2.listbox.com *Subject:* Re: [agi] How To Create General AI Draft2 Mike, Quoting a previous email: QUOTE In fact

Re: [agi] How To Create General AI Draft2

2010-08-09 Thread David Jones
percentage of what's needed to make a human-level, vaguely human-like AGI I.e. 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... -- Ben G On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 4:44 PM, David Jones davidher

Re: [agi] How To Create General AI Draft2

2010-08-09 Thread David Jones
Ben, Comments below. On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Ben Goertzel b...@goertzel.org wrote: The human visual system doesn't evolve like that on the fly. This can be proven by the fact that we all see the same visual illusions. We all exhibit the same visual limitations in the same way.

[agi] Anyone going to the Singularity Summit?

2010-08-09 Thread David Jones
I've decided to go. I was wondering if anyone else here is. Dave --- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription:

Re: [agi] Nao Nao

2010-08-10 Thread David Jones
Way too pessimistic in my opinion. On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 7:06 PM, John G. Rose johnr...@polyplexic.comwrote: Aww, so cute. I wonder if it has a Wi-Fi connection, DHCP's an IP address, and relays sensory information back to the main servers with all the other Nao's all collecting personal

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