RE: [agi] Bayes rule in the brain

2004-02-03 Thread Ben Goertzel
> I'm reading the book Richard M Golden (1996) "Mathematical > Methods for Neural Network Analysis & Design". Basically: > > (1) A dynamical ANN activates the next state according to > its current state, so there exists an "objective function" > for all states such that V(x) <= V(y) if state x is

RE: [agi] Umnick

2004-02-03 Thread Ben Goertzel
Peter, Thanks for the reference to the site -- no, I don't know anything about them, though. It seems they're heavily focused on sensorimotor intelligence at this phase, with a few additions like -- route planning -- similarity matching between perceptual situation It's very cool stuff, but I

RE: [agi] WordNet and NARS

2004-02-03 Thread Ben Goertzel
  Hi,   WordNet is an interesting resource; we have fed it into Novamente and reasoned on it using PTL.  Actually we've combined WordNet with some statistical word relationships derived from text-analysis.  One runs into some memory issues on a 32-bit machine, mostly due to the bulk of the s

Re: [agi] WordNet and NARS

2004-02-03 Thread Pei Wang
Kevin,   Yes, WordNet can be fed to an inference engine, as (part of) its knowledge base. We tried to use it with Webmind several years ago, and I do plan to use it with NARS in the future.   NARS is a reasoning system that starts with an empty memory (knowledge base). To get knowledge, one p

[agi] WordNet and NARS

2004-02-03 Thread kevinc
A while back, I took the WordNet database and parsed it into a relational database so that I could access it with VB.  My purpose was to use it a dictionary resource for chatterbots.  Then I found it could be used for other interesting things that a conventional paper dictionary cannot do