Ben, you haven't given us an update on how things
are going with the Novamente A.I. engine lately. Is this because progress
has been slow and there is nothing much to report, or you don't want to get
peoples hopes up while you are still so far from being done, or that you want to
surprise
Hi
Mike,
About
Novamente project progress...
The
reason I haven't given progress updates to this list lately is that I've been
even more insanely busy than usual, due to a combination of AI work and
(Novamente-related) business work and personal-life developments. So
recreational
Brad,
Hmmm... yeah, the problem you describe is actually an implementation issue,
which is irrelevant to whether one does synchronoous or asynchronous
updating.
It's easy to use a software design where, when a neuron sends activation to
another neuron, a check is done as to whether the target
Guess I'm too used to more biophysical models in which that approach won't
work. In the models I've used (which I understand aren't relevant to your
approach) you can't afford to ignore a neuron or its synapses because they
are under threshold. Interesting dynamics are occurring even when the
Yep, you're right of course. The trick I described is workable only for
simplified formal NN models, and for formal-NN-like systems such as Webmind.
It doesn't work for neural nets that more closely simulate physiology, and
it also isn't relevant to systems like Novamente that are less NN-like
