> You have already provided one very suitable example of a general AGI > problem - how is your pet having learnt one domain - to play "fetch", - to > use that knowledge to cross into another domain - to learn/discover the > game of "hide-and-seek."? But I have repeatedly asked you to give me your > ideas how your system will deal with this problem. And you have always > avoided it. I don't think, frankly, you have an idea how it will make the > connection in an AGI way. I am extremely confident you couldn't begin to > explain how a complex approach will make the cross-domain connection between > fetching and hiding/seeking. >
You are wrong, but persistently arguing with you is not seeming worthwhile... What you're talking about is called "transfer learning", and was one of the technical topics Joel Pitt and I talked about during his visit to my house a few weeks ago. We were discussing a particular technical approach to this problem using PLN abduction -- which is implicit in the OpenCogPrime design and the PLN book, but not spelled out in detail. However, I don't have time to write down our ideas in detail for this list right now. The examples we were talking about were stuff like ... if an agent has learned to play tag, how can it then generalize this knowledge to make it easier for it to learn to play hide-and-seek ... simple stuff like that ... and then, if it has learned to play hide-and-seek, how can it then generalize this knowledge to learn how to hide valued items so its friends can't find them ... etc. Simple examples of transfer learning, admittedly... but we did sketch out specifics of how to do this sorta stuff using PLN... This is stuff Joel may get to in 2009 in the OpenCog project, if things go well... right now he's working on fixing up the PLN implementation... -- Ben G ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=114414975-3c8e69 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
