2008/11/1 Joel Pitt [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
My commitment is with OpenCog at the moment - but this looks like a
really cool project/job that may suit some of you on this list :)
It sounds like cool stuff for sure, but in the last few years I've had
experience of American tech companies
From: Matt Mahoney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
True, we can't explain why the human brain needs 10^15 synapses to
store 10^9 bits of long term memory (Landauer's estimate). Typical
neural networks store 0.15 to 0.25 bits per synapse.
This study -
On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 7:14 AM, Benjamin Johnston
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The Prolog clause database effectively has this same problem. It solves it
simply by indexing on the functor of the outermost term and the first
argument of that term. This may be enough for your problem. As Donald Knuth
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 1:56 PM, Ben Goertzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In terms of MMOs, I suppose you could think of Selmer's approach as allowing
scripting in a highly customized variant of Prolog ... which might not be
a bad
thing, but is different from creating learning systems..
Also in
--- On Mon, 11/3/08, John G. Rose [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This study -
http://www.cogsci.rpi.edu/CSJarchive/1986v10/i04/p0477p0493/MAIN.PDF
is just throwing a dart at the wall. You'd need
something more real life
instead of word and picture recall calculations to arrive
at a number even
This is interesting because it challenges the discrete, stepped, Turing machine
conception of thought with a continuous dynamics model. {If anyone knows of
more stuff along these lines, I'd be v. interested]. Here's a pdf of Spivey's
ideas.
I just want to note that there is no real distinction btw
continuous-variable models like this as typically used, and computable,
Turing-machine-type models.
For instance, biologists do detailed simulations of the continuous variables
underlying neural activity, on digital computers. And
Ben,
He is v. explicitly talking about a paradigm shift and the mind-as-computer
as just one in a series of technological metaphors. Perhaps this will be
clearer if you look at his latest book The Continuity of Mind on Amazon, where
you can read the introduction. (Sheer philosophy-of-science
Well, you need to distinguish between
A) the contemporary, von Neumann computer as a metaphor
and
B) the abstract, mathematical computer as a theoretical framework
These are really quite different things ...
-- Ben G
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 8:24 PM, Mike Tintner [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
Researchers from the German Max Planck Society claim to
have developed mathematical methods that allow (virtual and
robotic) embodied entities to evolve by their own.
They begin with a child-like state and develop by exploring
both their environment and their personal capabilities.
Well, not very
That's a lot stronger and more interesting that the theories that I was
referring to. Also a lot more complex.
**This is getting way off topic, so the rest should probably be ignored.**
One of the theories that I was referring to contained only 0 and a rule
that given a number allowed you
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