Well, approximations to Solomonoff induction can be implemented, and their behavior is explained in many ways by the theory of Solomonoff induction...
On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 6:50 PM, Jim Bromer <[email protected]> wrote: > I guess the same argument can be made about Bayesian methods as well. > We need an AGI program to make many conclusions that cannot be based > on Bayesian Reasoning. So the viability of the method as a true basis > of AI can be disputed. Even so, it is a stretch to talk about a > theoretical method that cannot be implemented as if it were an > important basis for AGI. > > I can see how it is more closely related to AGI than to narrow AI but > that is not enough. > Jim Bromer > > > On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 10:33 AM, Jim Bromer <[email protected]> wrote: > > Perhaps I should write an article about 'my' Universal Abstraction > > Theory'... > > What is wrong about that? For one thing all of the problems writing an > AGI > > program are going to still be there. I would only be shifting the > discussion > > to the framework of the abstractions behind computer programming (and I > > would have to show a few examples of how they could be related to > conceptual > > formations.) I would not actually be describing a way to make an AGI > program > > viable. Why not? The abstractions would have to be potentially capable of > > 'reaching' AGI. But the problem is that they could also potentially reach > > any kind of computer program. The idea that the universality of an > > abstraction about computer programming would be viable to be treated as a > > universal abstraction of AGI is a conflation. > > > ------------------------------------------- > 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/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
