--- Jim Bromer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ----- Original Message ---- > > From: Matt Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I don't claim that compression is simple. It is not. Text compression > is > AI-complete. The general problem is not even computable. > > ...I claim that compression can be used to measure intelligence. I > explain in more detail at > http://cs.fit.edu/~mmahoney/compression/rationale.html > > -- Matt Mahoney, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ------------------------------------------- > > It will take me a while to read your paper. However, I want to say that > I am skeptical that you would be able to use compression to even measure > intelligence. > > I do think it might be worthwhile to come up with basic elements of > intelligence, and these could include correlations of productive output > from different algorithms or something like that. But, from there you > have to continue to build the system. It would be necessary to show > how those elements can be combined to produce higher (or better) > intelligence, and the Shannon/Hutter enthusiasts (along with everyone > else) simply have not done this. (I think the contemporary advancements > in AI are probably due to faster memory access and parallelism as much > as any achievement in AI software.) But this means that you are > advancing a purely speculative theory without any evidence to support > it.
The evidence is described in my paper which you haven't read yet. For building AGI, my proposal is http://www.mattmahoney.net/agi.html Unfortunately, I estimate the cost to be US $1 quadrillion over the next 30 years. But I believe it is coming, because AGI is worth that much. If I use compression anywhere, it will be to evaluate candidate language models for peers in a market that right now does not yet exist. > Right now I am working on my own religious journey (but mine is > seriously religious interestingly enough) writing a polynomial time SAT > program. It is worth $1 million if you succeed, but I wouldn't waste my time on it. http://www.claymath.org/millennium/P_vs_NP/ -- Matt Mahoney, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------- 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=103754539-40ed26 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
