Re: [agi] Lossy ** lossless compressi

2006-08-28 Thread Mark Waser
However, I think that a lossless model can reasonably derive this information by observing that p(x, x') is approximately equal to p(x) or p(x'). In other words, knowing both x and x' does not tell you any more than x or x' alone, or CDM(x, x') ~ 0.5. I think this is a reasonable way to

Re: [agi] Lossy ** lossless compressi

2006-08-28 Thread Sampo Etelavuori
On 8/28/06, Mark Waser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How does a lossless model observe that Jim is extremely fat and James continues to be morbidly obese are approximately equal? Actually I think I just may have invented one possible way to do that using a lossless probabilistic model in my

Re: [agi] AGI open source license

2006-08-28 Thread Russell Wallace
On 8/28/06, Stephen Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: An assumption of mine that can be debated perhaps in aseparate message thread, is that there should beeffectively only one AGI, allowing for a federation ofAGI's contrived to prevent war between them. I've explained my opinion of the various AI

Re: [agi] AGI open source license

2006-08-28 Thread Stephen Reed
--- Russell Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A serious AGI will have to end up making Google look like those '10 PRINT HELLO: GOTO 10' programs we used to write on our childhood 8-bit computers. Agreed. If everyone just downloads their own copy and tweaks it separately from everyone

Re: [agi] AGI open source license

2006-08-28 Thread Russell Wallace
On 8/28/06, Stephen Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, but suppose the government of China decides todownload an open source AGI and install it on one ormore of their Top 500 supercomputer facilities? Suppose the government of China decide to get hold of CAD, simulation software etc and install it

Re: [agi] AGI open source license

2006-08-28 Thread Russell Wallace
On 8/28/06, Stephen Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I assume that you fully understand the benefits andbusiness case of an open source project, and that yourpoint is made even with the former fully considered. Yes. For that matter, my answer would be the same if you proposed a closed source project

Re: [agi] AGI open source license

2006-08-28 Thread William Pearson
On 28/08/06, Russell Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/28/06, Stephen Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Google wouldn't work at all well under the GPL. Why? Because if everyone had their own little Google, it would be quite useless [1]. The system's usefulness comes from the fact that there is

Re: [agi] AGI open source license

2006-08-28 Thread William Pearson
On 28/08/06, Russell Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/28/06, William Pearson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the macro AGI can't translate between differences in language or representation that the micro AGIs have acquired from being open source, then we probably haven't done our job

Re: [agi] AGI open source license

2006-08-28 Thread Russell Wallace
On 8/28/06, William Pearson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was thinking more long term than you. I agree in the first phase wecan't rely on it being to translate different information fromdifferent AGI. But to start with I wouldn't attempt the google killer,merely the outlook killer. Okay, but... We

Re: [agi] AGI open source license

2006-08-28 Thread Bill Hibbard
Hi Stephen, As a small operation independent of Cyc, distributing your AGI system as open source is likely to be a good strategy. As a small university PI developing visualization software, distributing my systems as open source turned out to be very good for my project. Our collaborators and

Re: [agi] AGI open source license

2006-08-28 Thread Russell Wallace
On 8/28/06, Bill Hibbard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By open source distribution you are expressing optimismabout human nature, and your developer community willmostly justify that optimism. The best approach for thefew who disappoint you is to simply ignore them. I agree. When I suggested a no

Re: [agi] AGI open source license

2006-08-28 Thread Stephen Reed
--- Russell Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/28/06, Bill Hibbard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By open source distribution you are expressing optimism about human nature, and your developer community will mostly justify that optimism. The best approach for the few who disappoint

Re: [agi] AGI open source license

2006-08-28 Thread William Pearson
On 28/08/06, Russell Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/28/06, William Pearson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We may well not have enough computing resources available to do it on the cheap using local resources. But that is the approach I am inclined to take, I'll just wait until we do.

Re: [agi] AGI open source license

2006-08-28 Thread Russell Wallace
On 8/28/06, William Pearson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Things like hooking it up to low quality sound video feeds and have itjudge by posture/_expression_/time of day what the most useful piece ofinformation in the RSS feeds/email etc to provide to the user is. Wewould have to program a large

Re: Sampo [agi] Lossy ** lossless compressi

2006-08-28 Thread Mark Waser
Actually I think I just may have invented one possible way to do that using a lossless probabilistic model in my previous email to this list. Did you read it? :-) I read it. I think that you have to be in a perfect world situation for what you propose to be feasible (i.e. it requires seeing

Re: [agi] AGI open source license

2006-08-28 Thread William Pearson
On 28/08/06, Russell Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/28/06, William Pearson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Things like hooking it up to low quality sound video feeds and have it judge by posture/expression/time of day what the most useful piece of information in the RSS feeds/email etc to

Re: [agi] AGI open source license

2006-08-28 Thread Russell Wallace
On 8/28/06, William Pearson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Possibly I am not explaining things clearly enough. One of mymotivations for developing AI, apart from the challenge, is to enableme to get the information I need, when I need it.As a lot of the power I have in this world is through what I buy,

Re: [agi] Lossy ** lossless compressi

2006-08-28 Thread Matt Mahoney
On 8/28/06, Mark Waser wrote: How does a lossless model observe that Jim is extremely fat and James continues to be morbidly obese are approximately equal? I realize this is far beyond the capabilities of current data compression programs, which typically predict the next byte in the

Re: [agi] Lossy ** lossless compressi

2006-08-28 Thread Mark Waser
I think a 1 GB corpus is big enough to learn most of this knowledge using statistical methods. So we know that obese occurs in about 0.001% of all paragraphs, but in 1% of paragraphs containing fat. OK. Now try obese and morbidly or obese and clinically. I suspect that you are far more

Re: [agi] AGI open source license

2006-08-28 Thread Mark Waser
I would like to hear from others with this same point of view, and otherwise from anyone who has a idea that an open source AGI could be somehow made safe. While I also don't believe that you can protect your open source AGI from what if [insert favorite bad guys] use it for nefarious

Re: [agi] AGI open source license

2006-08-28 Thread Charles D Hixson
Stephen Reed wrote: I would appreciate comments regarding additional constraints, if any, that should be applied to a traditional open source license to achieve a free but safe widespread distribution of software that may lead to AGI. ... My personal opinion is that the best license is the

Re: [agi] AGI open source license

2006-08-28 Thread Stephen Reed
--- Charles D Hixson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stephen Reed wrote: I would appreciate comments regarding additional constraints, if any, that should be applied to a traditional open source license to achieve a free but safe widespread distribution of software that may lead to AGI.