Omoshiroi no... Jeff Hawkins thinks Prediction is the key, Douglas Hofstadter thought Analogy is the key... Perhaps we get all these keys and unlock something.... ~PM
> Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 08:03:27 +0800 > Subject: Re: [agi] What's preventing me from doing this AGI thing? > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > > It's clear that prediction is one of the important capabilities that > an AGI needs to have > > What's less clear is whether it's productive to view predictive as > **the core** cognitive functionality of human-level intelligence, as > Jeff Hawkins and others have suggested > > -- Ben G > > On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 7:37 AM, Matt Mahoney via AGI <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 6:10 AM, Logan Streondj via AGI <[email protected]> > > wrote: > >> prediction and AGI have almost nothing in common. > >> I don't know why people here are so stuck up on it. > > > > You are able to catch a ball because you can predict how it will move. > > You are able to get to work on time because you predict that when you > > set your alarm clock that it will wake you up in the morning and you > > can predict how long it will take to get there after you wake up. You > > are able to understand my words because you can predict a large > > fraction of them and only need to remember the differences. Just > > because you aren't consciously aware of your own thought processes > > doesn't mean you don't think. > > > > -- > > -- Matt Mahoney, [email protected] > > > > > > ------------------------------------------- > > AGI > > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/212726-deec6279 > > Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > > > > -- > Ben Goertzel, PhD > http://goertzel.org > > "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one > persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all > progress depends on the unreasonable man." -- George Bernard Shaw > > > ------------------------------------------- > AGI > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/19999924-4a978ccc > Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
