RE: [agi] What are the real unsolved issues in AGI [WAS Re: Hacker intelligence

2007-12-03 Thread John G. Rose
> From: Richard Loosemore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Top three? I don't know if anyone ranks them. > > Try: > > 1) Grounding Problem (the *real* one, not the cheap substitute that > everyone usually thinks of as the symbol grounding problem). > > 2) The problem of desiging an inference control

RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-03 Thread John G. Rose
Ed, Well it'd be nice having a supercomputer but P2P is a poor man's supercomputer and beggars can't be choosy. Honestly the type of AGI that I have been formulating in my mind has not been at all closely related to simulating neural activity through orchestrating partial and mass activations at

Re: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-03 Thread Mike Tintner
RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]ED Yes, but there are a lot of types of thinking that cannot be done by shape alone, and shape is actually much more complicated than shape. There is shape, and shape distorted by perspective, and shape changed by bending, an

Re: [agi] RE:P2P and/or communal AGI development [WAS Hacker intelligence level...]

2007-12-03 Thread Bryan Bishop
On Monday 03 December 2007, Mike Dougherty wrote: > I believe the next step of such a system is to become an abstraction > between the user and the network they're using.  So if you can hook > into your P2P network via a firefox extension, (consider StumbleUpon > or Greasemonkey) so it (the agent)

Re: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-03 Thread Richard Loosemore
Ed Porter wrote: Richard Loosemore=> None of the above is relevant. The issue is not whether toy problems set within the current paradigm can be done with this or that search algorithm, it is whether the current paradigm can be made to converge at all for non-toy problems. Ed Porter

Re: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-03 Thread Bryan Bishop
On Thursday 29 November 2007, Ed Porter wrote: > Somebody (I think it was David Hart) told me there is a shareware > distributed web crawler already available, but I don't know the > details, such as how good or fast it is. http://grub.org/ Previous owner went by the name of 'kordless'. I found hi

Re: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-03 Thread Richard Loosemore
Ed Porter wrote: RICHARD LOOSEMORE=> I'm sorry, but this is not addressing the actual issues involved. You are implicitly assuming a certain framework for solving the problem of representing knowledge ... and then all your discussion is about whether or not it is feasible to implement

RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-03 Thread Ed Porter
Matt, In addition to my last email, I don't understand what your were saying below about complexity. Are you saying that as a system becomes bigger it naturally becomes unstable, or what? Ed Porter -Original Message- From: Matt Mahoney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December

RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-03 Thread Ed Porter
Matt, IN my Mon 12/3/2007 8:17 PM post to John Rose from which your are probably quoting below I discussed the bandwidth issues. I am assuming nodes directly talk to each other, which is probably overly optimistic, but still are limited by the fact that each node can only receive somewhere roughl

RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-03 Thread Ed Porter
>Richard Loosemore=> None of the above is relevant. The issue is not whether toy problems set within the current paradigm can be done with this or that search algorithm, it is whether the current paradigm can be made to converge at all for non-toy problems. Ed Porter=> Richard, I woul

RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-03 Thread Ed Porter
>RICHARD LOOSEMORE=> I'm sorry, but this is not addressing the actual issues involved. You are implicitly assuming a certain framework for solving the problem of representing knowledge ... and then all your discussion is about whether or not it is feasible to implement that framework (to

RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-03 Thread Ed Porter
Mike -Original Message- From: Mike Tintner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 8:25 PM To: agi@v2.listbox.com Subject: Re: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research] >>>MIKE TINTNER "Isn't it obvious that the brain is able to understand the w

Re: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-03 Thread Matt Mahoney
--- Mike Tintner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matt: Semantic models learn associations by proximity in the training text. > The > degree to which you associate "snake" and "rope" depends on how often these > words appear near each other > > Correct me - but it's the old, old problem here, isn't

RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-03 Thread Matt Mahoney
--- Ed Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We do not know the number and width of the spreading activation that is > necessary for human level reasoning over world knowledge. Thus, we really > don't know how much interconnect is needed and thus how large of a P2P net > would be needed for impressi

Re: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-03 Thread Mike Tintner
Matt: Semantic models learn associations by proximity in the training text. The degree to which you associate "snake" and "rope" depends on how often these words appear near each other Correct me - but it's the old, old problem here, isn't it? Those semantic models/programs won't be able to fo

Re: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-03 Thread Richard Loosemore
Ed Porter wrote: RICHARD LOOSEMORE I cannot even begin to do justice, here, to the issues involved in solving "the high dimensional problem of seeking to understand the meaning of text, which often involve multiple levels of implication, which would normally be accomplished by some sort of se

Re: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-03 Thread Richard Loosemore
Ed Porter wrote: RICHARD LOOSEMORE I cannot even begin to do justice, here, to the issues involved in solving "the high dimensional problem of seeking to understand the meaning of text, which often involve multiple levels of implication, which would normally be accomplished by some sort of se

Re: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-03 Thread Mike Tintner
MIKE TINTNER "Isn't it obvious that the brain is able to understand the wealth of language by relatively few computations - quite intricate, hierarchical, multi-levelled processing," ED PORTER How do you find the right set of "relatively few computations" and/or models that are appropriat

Re: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-03 Thread Matt Mahoney
--- Mike Tintner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On the one hand, we can perhaps agree that one of the brain's glories is > that it can very rapidly draw analogies - that I can quickly produce a > string of associations like, say, "snake", "rope," "chain", "spaghetti > strand," - and you may quick

[agi] Priming of associates [WAS Re: Hacker intelligence level]

2007-12-03 Thread Richard Loosemore
Mike Tintner wrote: RL: One thing that can be easily measured is the "activation" of lexical items related in various ways to a presented word (i.e. show the subject the word "Doctor" and test to see if the word "Nurse" gets activated). It turns out that within an extremely short time of the fors

RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-03 Thread Ed Porter
RICHARD LOOSEMORE I cannot even begin to do justice, here, to the issues involved in solving "the high dimensional problem of seeking to understand the meaning of text, which often involve multiple levels of implication, which would normally be accomplished by some sort of search of a large sem

Re: [agi] What are the real unsolved issues in AGI [WAS Re: Hacker intelligence

2007-12-03 Thread Richard Loosemore
John G. Rose wrote: From: Richard Loosemore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I think this is a very important issue in AGI, which is why I felt compelled to say something. As you know, I keep trying to get meaningful debate to happen on the subject of *methodology* in AGI. That is what my claims about

Re: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-03 Thread Mike Dougherty
On Dec 3, 2007 12:12 PM, Mike Tintner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I get it : you and most other AI-ers are equating "hard" with "very, very > complex," right? But you don't seriously think that the human mind > successfully deals with language by "massive parallel computation", do you? Very very

Re: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-03 Thread Mike Tintner
RL: One thing that can be easily measured is the "activation" of lexical items related in various ways to a presented word (i.e. show the subject the word "Doctor" and test to see if the word "Nurse" gets activated). It turns out that within an extremely short time of the forst word being seen, a

Re: [agi] RE:P2P and/or communal AGI development [WAS Hacker intelligence level...]

2007-12-03 Thread Mike Dougherty
On Dec 3, 2007 5:07 PM, Matt Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When a user asks a question or posts information, the message would be > broadcast to many nodes, which could choose to ignore them or relay them to > other nodes that it believes would find the message more relevant. Eventually > t

Re: [agi] RE:P2P and/or communal AGI development [WAS Hacker intelligence level...]

2007-12-03 Thread Matt Mahoney
--- Ed Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And (2) with regard to the order of NL learning, I think a child actually > learns semantics first Actually Jusczyk showed that babies learn the rules for segmenting continuous speech at 7-10 months. I did some experiments in 1999 following the work of H

RE: [agi] RE:P2P and/or communal AGI development [WAS Hacker intelligence level...]

2007-12-03 Thread John G. Rose
> From: J. Andrew Rogers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Distributed algorithms tend to be far more sensitivity to latency than > bandwidth, except to the extent that low bandwidth induces latency. > As a practical matter, the latency floor of P2P is so high that most > algorithms would run far fast

Re: [agi] RE:P2P and/or communal AGI development [WAS Hacker intelligence level...]

2007-12-03 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
On Dec 3, 2007, at 12:52 PM, John G. Rose wrote: For some lucky cable folks the BW is getting ready to increase soon: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071130-docsis-3-0-possible-100mbps-sp eeds-coming-to-some-comcast-users-in-2008.html I'm yet to fully understand the limitations of a P2P

RE: [agi] RE:P2P and/or communal AGI development [WAS Hacker intelligence level...]

2007-12-03 Thread John G. Rose
For some lucky cable folks the BW is getting ready to increase soon: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071130-docsis-3-0-possible-100mbps-sp eeds-coming-to-some-comcast-users-in-2008.html I'm yet to fully understand the limitations of a P2P based AGI design or the augmentational ability of a

RE: [agi] What are the real unsolved issues in AGI [WAS Re: Hacker intelligence

2007-12-03 Thread John G. Rose
> From: Richard Loosemore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I think this is a very important issue in AGI, which is why I felt > compelled to say something. > > As you know, I keep trying to get meaningful debate to happen on the > subject of *methodology* in AGI. That is what my claims about the > com

RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-03 Thread Ed Porter
MIKE TINTNER "Isn't it obvious that the brain is able to understand the wealth of language by relatively few computations - quite intricate, hierarchical, multi-levelled processing," ED PORTER How do you find the right set of "relatively few computations" and/or models that are appropriat

Re: [agi] What are the real unsolved issues in AGI [WAS Re: Hacker intelligence

2007-12-03 Thread Bob Mottram
On 03/12/2007, Richard Loosemore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > it is truly > astonishing to hear people talking about issues being more or less > solved, bar the shouting. You'll usually find that such people never trouble themselves with implementational details. Intuitive notions about how easy

[agi] RE:P2P and/or communal AGI development [WAS Hacker intelligence level...]

2007-12-03 Thread Ed Porter
My suggestion, criticized below (criticism can be valuable), was for just one of many possible uses of an open-source P2P AGI-at-home type system. I am totally willing to hear other proposals. Considering how little time I spent coming up with the one being criticized, I have a relatively low eg

[agi] What are the real unsolved issues in AGI [WAS Re: Hacker intelligence

2007-12-03 Thread Richard Loosemore
John G. Rose wrote: From: Richard Loosemore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] It is easy for a research field to agree that certain problems are really serious and unsolved. A hundred years ago, the results of the Michelson-Morley experiments were a big unsolved problem, and pretty serious for the found

RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-03 Thread John G. Rose
> From: Richard Loosemore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > It is easy for a research field to agree that certain problems are > really serious and unsolved. > > A hundred years ago, the results of the Michelson-Morley experiments > were a big unsolved problem, and pretty serious for the foundations of

Re: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-03 Thread Richard Loosemore
John G. Rose wrote: From: Richard Loosemore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [snip] I am not being negative, I am just relaying the standard understanding of priorities in the AGI field as a whole. Send complaints addressed to "AGI Community", not to me, please. You are being negative! And since wh

Re: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-03 Thread Richard Loosemore
Mike Tintner wrote: Matt:: The whole point of using massive parallel computation is to do the hard part of the problem. I get it : you and most other AI-ers are equating "hard" with "very, very complex," right? But you don't seriously think that the human mind successfully deals with languag

Re: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-03 Thread Richard Loosemore
Ed Porter wrote: Richard, It is false to imply that knowledge of how to draw implications from a series of statements by some sort of search mechanism is equally unknown as that of how to make an anti-gravity drive -- if by "anti-gravity drive" you mean some totally unknown form of physics, rath

RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-03 Thread John G. Rose
> From: Ed Porter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Once you build up good models for parsing and word sense, then you read > large amounts of text and start building up model of the realities > described > and generalizations from them. > > Assuming this is a continuation of the discussion of an AGI-at

RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-03 Thread John G. Rose
> From: Bryan Bishop [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I am not sure what the next step would be. The first step might be > enough for the moment. When you have the network functioning at all, > expose an API so that other programmers can come in and try to utilize > sentence analysis (and other function

Re: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-03 Thread Mike Tintner
Matt:: The whole point of using massive parallel computation is to do the hard part of the problem. I get it : you and most other AI-ers are equating "hard" with "very, very complex," right? But you don't seriously think that the human mind successfully deals with language by "massive paralle

RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-03 Thread John G. Rose
> From: Richard Loosemore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > The reason it reminds me of this episode is that you are calmly talking > here about "the high dimensional problem of seeking to understand the > meaning of text, which often involve multiple levels of implication, > which would normally be a

Re: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-03 Thread Matt Mahoney
--- Richard Loosemore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Menawhile, unfortunately, solving all those other issues like making > parsers and trying to do word-sense disambiguation would not help one > whit to get the real theoretical task done. I agree. AI has a long history of doing the easy part of

Re: [agi] "AGI" first mention on NPR!

2007-12-03 Thread Richard Loosemore
Bob Mottram wrote: Perhaps a good word of warning is that it will be really easy to satirise/lampoon/misrepresent AGI and its proponents until such time as one is actually created. The problem is that these two activities - denigrating AGI, and actually building one - are not two independent t

Re: [agi] "AGI" first mention on NPR!

2007-12-03 Thread Bob Mottram
Perhaps a good word of warning is that it will be really easy to satirise/lampoon/misrepresent AGI and its proponents until such time as one is actually created. On 03/12/2007, Richard Loosemore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yesterday I heard the phrase "Artificial General Intelligence" on the

Re: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-03 Thread Richard Loosemore
Ed Porter wrote: Once you build up good models for parsing and word sense, then you read large amounts of text and start building up model of the realities described and generalizations from them. Assuming this is a continuation of the discussion of an AGI-at-home P2P system, you are going to be

[agi] "AGI" first mention on NPR!

2007-12-03 Thread Richard Loosemore
Yesterday I heard the phrase "Artificial General Intelligence" on the radio for the first time ever: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16816185 Weekend Edition Sunday, December 2, 2007 · The idea of what Artificia

RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-03 Thread Ed Porter
Once you build up good models for parsing and word sense, then you read large amounts of text and start building up model of the realities described and generalizations from them. Assuming this is a continuation of the discussion of an AGI-at-home P2P system, you are going to be very limited by th

Re: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]

2007-12-03 Thread Bryan Bishop
On Sunday 02 December 2007, John G. Rose wrote: > Building up parse trees and word sense models, let's say that would > be a first step. And then say after a while this was accomplished and > running on some peers. What would the next theoretical step be? I am not sure what the next step would be.

Re: Re[2]: [agi] Self-building AGI

2007-12-03 Thread Bob Mottram
On 02/12/2007, Ed Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I currently think there are some human human-level intelligences who know > how to build most of an AGI, at least enough to get up and running systems > that would solve many aspects of the AGI problem and help us better > understand what, if an