Just a few comments on this thread. The difference between predicting and understanding is that one requires consciousness. In other words, there is no difference. We use prediction to test understanding. You can't test for consciousness.
Brains don't compress, they predict. You can only compress and decompress if you can reset the predictor to an earlier state and deterministically reproduce the same predictions during decompression. That is easy to do with computers but not brains, even though brains can sometimes predict better. It is common to expand data to compress better. For example, you can replace upper case letters with a capitalization symbol and the lower case letter prior to any of the common compressors like zip, 7zip, rar, etc. This is because words and capitalization are predicted by different rules. The "precomp" program finds deflate (zip) streams in many common files (png, pdf, docx, xlsx, etc) and unzips them before applying stronger compressors. ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/Td08f1cb9cdd5e5d9-M8b256441c56c11eed30cfef8 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
