Hi Lukasz , With regard to the Texai approach, I have subjected myself to these constraints:
* to author the bootstrap portion of the system by myself * to write the least amount of code (e.g. not to write an ideal AI language first) * to reuse existing narrow AI solutions and infrastructure to the widest possible extent * as Turing suggested, to build a 'child' mechanism capable of being taught, and to subsequently train it to achieve 'adult' capability * to design a scalable architecture having a multitude of mentors and users It looks now that I am trying to solve at least the following AI-hard problems simultaneously: * to communicate with humans using natural language * to learn by being taught * to achieve generally applicable commonsense behavior * to achieve automatic programming, e.g. programming from very high level specifications, using algorithmic and domain knowledge, plus real-time advice from human mentors Although daunting, I believe small progress on this combination of problems will procede into a virtuous circle of exponential improvement. Cheers, -Steve Stephen L. Reed Artificial Intelligence Researcher http://texai.org/blog http://texai.org 3008 Oak Crest Ave. Austin, Texas, USA 78704 512.791.7860 ----- Original Message ---- From: Lukasz Stafiniak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Tuesday, May 6, 2008 11:25:35 AM Subject: Re: [agi] AGI-08 videos On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 4:07 PM, Mark Waser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Note: Most of these complaints do *NOT* apply to Texai (except possibly > the two to five level complaint -- except that Texai is actually starting at > what I would call one of the middle levels and looks like it has reasonable > plans for branching out. > Texai has the added value of freshness, but the challenge Steve is facing now is perhaps bigger than the ones he has conquered already: to reflect on the system's state and to represent, learn and reason about actions. ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?& Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=101455710-f059c4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com