I happened to use CopyCat in a university AI class I taught years ago, so I got some experience with it
It was **great** as a teaching tool, but I wouldn't say it shows anything about what can or can't work for AGI, really... ben On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 10:02 AM, Ben Goertzel <b...@goertzel.org> wrote: > > >> Do you mean that examples that Hofstadter/Mitchell used in their >> papers for CopyCat did not in fact work on their codebase? I remember >> downloading second copycat implementations (in Java IIRC), it seemed >> to be working. Besides, they don't claim anything grandiose for this >> model, and it seems like it shouldn't be too hard to make it work. >> > > Those examples work, but if you take random examples of "letter string > analogy problems" from Metamagical Themas, you can't get CopyCat to handle > them... > > ben > > -- Ben Goertzel, PhD CEO, Novamente LLC and Biomind LLC Director of Research, SIAI b...@goertzel.org "I intend to live forever, or die trying." -- Groucho Marx ------------------------------------------- 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=123753653-47f84b Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
