2008/12/29 Matt Mahoney <matmaho...@yahoo.com>: > > Please remember that I am not proposing compression as a solution to the AGI > problem. I am proposing it as a measure of progress in an important component > (prediction).
Then why not cut out the middleman and measure prediction directly? I.e. put the prediction program in a test harness, feed it chunks one at a time, ask it what the next value in the sequence will be, tell it what the actual answer was, etc. The program's score is then simply the number it got right divided by the number of predictions it had to make. Turning a prediction program into a compression program requires superfluous extra work: you have to invent an efficient file format to hold compressed data, and you have to write a decompression program as well as a compressor. Furthermore there are bound to be programs that're good at compression but not good at prediction. Whereas all programs that're good at prediction are guaranteed to be good at prediction. -- Philip Hunt, <cabala...@googlemail.com> Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html ------------------------------------------- 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
