Re: [agi] AI on TV

2002-12-09 Thread maitri
: Monday, December 09, 2002 11:26 AM Subject: RE: [agi] AI on TV There was a show on the tube last night on TechTV. It was part of their weekly Secret, Strange and True series. They chronicled three guys who are working on creating advanced AI. One guy was from

RE: [agi] AI on TV

2002-12-09 Thread Gary Miller
Title: Message On Dec. 9 Kevin said: "It seems to me that building a strictly "black box" AGI that only uses text or graphical input\output can have tremendous implications for our society, even without arms and eyes and ears, etc. Almost anything can be designed or contemplated within a

RE: [agi] AI on TV

2002-12-09 Thread Ben Goertzel
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of maitriSent: Monday, December 09, 2002 11:44 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: [agi] AI on TV Ben, I just read the Bio. You gave alot more play to his ideas than the show did. You probably know this, but Starlab has

Re: [agi] AI on TV

2002-12-09 Thread Shane Legg
maitri wrote: The second guy was from either England or the states, not sure. He was working out of his garage with his wife. He was trying to develop robot AI including vision, speech, hearing and movement. This one's a bit more difficult, Steve Grand perhaps?

Re: [agi] AI on TV

2002-12-09 Thread Shane Legg
Gary Miller wrote: On Dec. 9 Kevin said: It seems to me that building a strictly black box AGI that only uses text or graphical input\output can have tremendous implications for our society, even without arms and eyes and ears, etc. Almost anything can be designed or contemplated within a

Re: [agi] AI on TV

2002-12-09 Thread maitri
that's him... - Original Message - From: Shane Legg [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 3:43 PM Subject: Re: [agi] AI on TV maitri wrote: The second guy was from either England or the states, not sure. He was working out of his garage

Re: [agi] AI on TV

2002-12-09 Thread maitri
PM Subject: Re: [agi] AI on TV Gary Miller wrote: On Dec. 9 Kevin said: It seems to me that building a strictly black box AGI that only uses text or graphical input\output can have tremendous implications for our society, even without arms and eyes and ears, etc. Almost anything can

Re: [agi] AI on TV

2002-12-09 Thread Pei Wang
be textual. Of course, sensorimotor experience is richer, but it is not fundamentally different from textual experience. Pei - Original Message - From: maitri [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 5:52 PM Subject: Re: [agi] AI on TV I don't want to underestimate

Re: [agi] AI on TV

2002-12-09 Thread Alan Grimes
Ben Goertzel wrote: This is not a matter of principle, it's a matter of pragmatics I think that a perceptual-motor domain in which a variety of cognitively simple patterns are simply expressed, will make world-grounded early language learning much easier... If anyone has the software

Re: [agi] AI on TV

2002-12-09 Thread Shane Legg
I think my position is similar to Ben's; it's not really what you ground things in, but rather that you don't expose your limited little computer brain to an environment that is too complex -- at least not to start with. Language, even reasonably simple context free languages, could well be too

Re: [agi] AI on TV

2002-12-09 Thread Pei Wang
: Monday, December 09, 2002 9:44 PM Subject: Re: [agi] AI on TV I think my position is similar to Ben's; it's not really what you ground things in, but rather that you don't expose your limited little computer brain to an environment that is too complex -- at least not to start with. Language