Re: [agi] Another attempt to define General Intelligence, and some AGI design thoughts.

2007-06-15 Thread Robert Wensman
with my second mail adress that I use). Was the mail sent to the entire list? Regards. /Robert Wensman 2007/6/14, Derek Zahn [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Robert Wensman writes: Databases: 1. Facts: Contains sensory data records, and actuator records. 2. Theory: Contains memeplexes that tries to model

Re: [agi] Another attempt to define General Intelligence, and some AGI design thoughts.

2007-06-15 Thread Robert Wensman
straightforward. Maybe this will be easier once we have an example of working AGI. There is a point though, in that passive AGI systems that just think think think, but doesnt do anything useful would be of little use :-). Regards /Robert Wensman ___ James Ratcliff

Re: [agi] a2i2 news update

2007-07-26 Thread Robert Wensman
their strength in numbers and the hopes for progress it gives. To me altruistic AGI just seems a lot safer than selfish AGI! /Robert Wensman - This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id

[agi] A problem with computer science?

2007-09-28 Thread Robert Wensman
an increased focus on AGI would encourage such a development. /Robert Wensman These are not clearly separable things. One of the reasons many people do the system synthesis and balanced approximations so badly is because they tend to use minor variations of the same function representations

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

2007-10-09 Thread Robert Wensman
(off topic, but there are something relevant for AGI) My fears about economical libertarianism could be illustrated with a fish pond analogy. If there is a small pond with a large number of small fish of some predatory species, after an amount of time they will cannibalize and eat each other

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

2007-10-10 Thread Robert Wensman
existence on earth that I think many AGI enthusiasts and futurists wants to deny: What good are wits when you are looking down the barrel of a gun? /Robert Wensman - This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2

Re: [agi] An AGI Test/Prize

2007-10-20 Thread Robert Wensman
Regarding testing grounds for AGI. Personally I feel that ordinary computer games could provide an excellent proving ground for the early stages of AGI, or maybe even better if they are especially constructed. Computer games are usually especially designed to encourage the player towards

Re: [agi] A Simple Mathematical Test of Cog Sci.

2008-01-07 Thread Robert Wensman
). But please do not say things like we should write AGI systems that are not programmed. It hurts my ears/eyes. /Robert Wensman 2008/1/7, Mike Tintner [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Well we (Penrose co) are all headed in roughly the same direction, but we're taking different routes. If you really want

Re: [agi] A Simple Mathematical Test of Cog Sci.

2008-01-07 Thread Robert Wensman
). You should focus on HOW we could make programs creative, rather loosing yourself in a strange quest to redefine well established terminology. It is completley besides the point. /Robert Wensman 2008/1/7, Mike Tintner [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Robert, Look, the basic reality is that computers have

Re: [agi] A Simple Mathematical Test of Cog Sci.

2008-01-07 Thread Robert Wensman
. From our perspective, your position is not revolutionary, just depressing. /Robert Wensman 2008/1/7, Mike Tintner [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Robert, Look, the basic reality is that computers have NOT yet been creative in any significant way, and have NOT yet achieved AGI - general intelligence

Re: [agi] A Simple Mathematical Test of Cog Sci.

2008-01-07 Thread Robert Wensman
at. Why this question? I think Benjamin answered this question pretty thoroughly already. /Robert Wensman - This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244id_secret=82686766-4e2400

Re: [agi] Study hints that fruit flies have free will

2008-01-24 Thread Robert Wensman
1. Brembs and his colleagues reasoned that if fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) *were simply reactive robots entirely determined by their environment*, in completely featureless rooms they should move completely randomly. Yes, but no one has ever argued that a flier is a stateless machine. It

Re: [agi] Study hints that fruit flies have free will

2008-01-24 Thread Robert Wensman
I don't think anyone with knowledge of insect nervous systems would argue that they're stateless machines. Even simple invertebrates such as slugs can exhibit classical condition effects which means that at least some minimal state is retained. To me the idea of free will suggests that a

[agi] Primates using tools.

2008-01-30 Thread Robert Wensman
the source of that that information. /Robert Wensman - This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244id_secret=91461624-5f7744

[agi] AGI Metaphysics and spatial biases.

2008-02-22 Thread Robert Wensman
into the Novamente system? /Robert Wensman --- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244id_secret=95818715-a78a9b

Re: [agi] reasoning knowledge

2008-02-29 Thread Robert Wensman
d) you keep repeating the illusion that evolution did NOT achieve the airplane and other machines - oh yes, it did - your central illusion here is that machines are independent species. They're not. They are EXTENSIONS of human beings, and don't work without human beings attached.

Re: [agi] Instead of an AGI Textbook

2008-03-28 Thread Robert Wensman
A few things come to my mind: 1. To what extent is learning and reasoning a sub topic of cognitive architectures? Is learning and reasoning a plugin to a cognitive architecture, or is in fact the whole cognitive architecture about learning and reasoning. 2. I would like a special topic on AGI

Re: [agi] Instead of an AGI Textbook

2008-03-29 Thread Robert Wensman
Hmm.. well, but at least, using words related to robotics gives a flavour of embodiment :-). Anyhow, I still prefer sharing terminology with robotics, as opposed to narrow AI. Narrow AI and AGI are perhaps closer, so the risk of confusion is bigger. /R 2008/3/29, Ben Goertzel [EMAIL