On 3/23/07, David Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Both the code and algorythmn must be good for any computer system to work and neither is easy. The bond formula was published for many years but this particular company certainly didn't have a copy of it inside a program they could use. The formula was 1 line of at least 4K lines of code. The program wasn't so trivial either :)
The reason AGI doesn't exist yet is not because there aren't enough skilled programmers in the world. (Or that these people are using the wrong operating system or programming language etc... to address the rest of the discussion on this thread!) The problem is that people aren't exactly clear about what it is that has to be programmed. Time and time again in the field people have thought that they knew what had to be done, and yet when they finally got around to coding it the results weren't what they had hoped for.
Is the research on AI full of Math because there are many Math professors that publish in the field or is the problem really Math related? Many PhDs in computer science are Math oriented exactly because the professors that deem their work worth a PhD are either Mathematicians or their sponsoring professor was.
I don't know of any math profs who publish in artificial intelligence, though no doubt there are a few that do. No, thinking about it now I can think of a few. Even if you look at the work of my PhD supervisor Marcus Hutter, he's not a math prof, he's actually a physics PhD. His work might look very mathematical to a computer scientist, but he doesn't actually use much beyond about 4th year university level mathematics and statistics in his book. Indeed he likes to joke about mathematicians and how they are overly formal and concerned about details like whether he has properly deal with certain special cases on sets of measure 0 :-) So yeah, the math that you see in the field is almost always coming from people who are mathematically inclined, but aren't math profs. I should also note that the number of pure theory people in AI is very small. For example, I went to the ALT conference last year to present some work and there were only 40 people. This is the second biggest AI theory conference in the world (after COLT). Other areas like genetic algorithms attract thousands. Shane ----- 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/?list_id=303
