Re: [agi] Symbols in search of meaning
In a message dated 2/26/2003 9:47:58 PM Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Human children will learn that certain sound patterns are associated with patterned human behaviour. So very soon (plus or minus one year) children will start to accumulate awareness of words that they know are important because big people around them use those words - but the child has to expend mental effort to discover the meaning of the words. So, once this meta-behaviour is established, it is possible to download symbols into the young NGI and the youngster then begins the laborious task of attaching meaning to the words (derived from both experiential and taught leaning). Agree. This is at least part of the reason that shameless self plug my Rogue-AI project started out from a mostly cognitive linquistics / semiontics base. Could probably win the Loebner prize... Not interested in entering... Hope to start teaching her to understand her source code by the end of the year the year
Re: [agi] unFriendly AIXI
In a message dated 2/11/2003 10:17:07 AM Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1) There is a class of physically realizable problems, which humans can solve easily for maximum reward, but which - as far as I can tell - AIXI cannot solve even in principle; 2) While an AIXI-tl of limited physical and cognitive capabilities might serve as a useful tool, AIXI is unFriendly and cannot be made Friendly regardless of *any* pattern of reinforcement delivered during childhood. Before I post further, is there *anyone* who sees this besides me? Can someone post a link to this? Thanks!
Re: [agi] New Virus
Ouch - more than I ever wanted to know about someone :) I've deleted these messages.
[agi] An Artificial General Intelligence in the Making
Nearly finished reading "An Artificial General Intelligence in the Making" Ben Goertzel, et. al. (Lost the link, because I saved it to my local HD.) My general impression - a good document with lots of well thought out concepts. Wish that I'd run into it a year or so ago - it would have saved me more than a little research and mental gymnastics. There are a few concepts that I'll probably *eventually* borrow to add to my ongoing Rogue-AI project (if and when days ever become longer than just 24 hours, so that I have the time to do so.) Is there more information about KNOW available anywhere? You never can tell - there might come a day when your AI and my AI want to have a conversation. :) ===bob briggs
Re: [agi] Intelligence by definition
Well, in Novamente we are not coding *specific knowledge* that is learnable... but we are coding implicit knowledge as to what sorts of learning processes are most useful in which specialized subdomains... I'm reminded of an AI pioneer who once commented on this same situation - he closed his eyes, pretending that there wasn't a grad student in the room. ===bob briggs
