Re: [agi] internship opportunity at Google (Mountain View, CA)

2008-12-16 Thread Lukasz Stafiniak
Oh my, I've been very tired the other day! (as my English there shows...) I'm sorry for spamming the list. On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 11:41 PM, Lukasz Stafiniak lukst...@gmail.com wrote: I am initially interested but please consider other propositions as

Re: [agi] references on hypercomputation?

2008-12-16 Thread Hector Zenil
If useful, my paper on http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.NE/0605065 has an exhaustive bibliography up to 2005. On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 4:03 PM, Ben Goertzel b...@goertzel.org wrote: I'm considering writing a paper on hypercomputation, and am wondering if anyone on this list could suggest a good

Re: [agi] references on hypercomputation?

2008-12-16 Thread Ben Goertzel
That's great ... do you have knowledge of other more recent references as well? thx ben On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Hector Zenil hzen...@gmail.com wrote: If useful, my paper on http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.NE/0605065 has an exhaustive bibliography up to 2005. On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 4:03

Re: [agi] references on hypercomputation?

2008-12-16 Thread Hector Zenil
I haven't followed the subject lately but there is a very recent book published by Springer: Apostolos Syropoulos, Hypercomputation: Computing beyond the Church-Turing barrier, Springer, 2008. However, I am afraid that I find it very mediocre in all aspects (from full of typos to wrong

Re: [agi] Transfer learning

2008-12-16 Thread Mike Tintner
Thanks. This is transfer *within* a single domain (from simpler to more complex levels)? Is anyone attempting transfer *across* domains - e.g. from a Blocksworld domain to a Keepaway domain, and not just within them? Ben: I just read an interesting (somewhat mathy) paper on transfer

Re: [agi] Transfer learning

2008-12-16 Thread Ben Goertzel
yes, there is work like that referenced on the other page linked to there ... but I happen to find the technique in this paper particularly interesting even though the initial application is somewhat lame... On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Mike Tintner tint...@blueyonder.co.ukwrote: Thanks.

[agi] Transfer learning

2008-12-16 Thread Ben Goertzel
I just read an interesting (somewhat mathy) paper on transfer learning, and put the link here http://www.opencog.org/wiki/Transfer_Learning ben -- Ben Goertzel, PhD CEO, Novamente LLC and Biomind LLC Director of Research, SIAI b...@goertzel.org I intend to live forever, or die trying. --

Re: [agi] internship opportunity at Google (Mountain View, CA)

2008-12-16 Thread Lukasz Stafiniak
Oh my, I've been very tired the other day! (as my English there shows...) I'm sorry for spamming the list. On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 11:41 PM, Lukasz Stafiniak lukst...@gmail.com wrote: I am initially interested but please consider other propositions as

[agi] references on hypercomputation?

2008-12-16 Thread Ben Goertzel
I'm considering writing a paper on hypercomputation, and am wondering if anyone on this list could suggest a good bibliography on the topic ... I want to read up on the latest literature to be sure my thoughts are original before writing the paper... thx ben -- Ben Goertzel, PhD CEO,

Why? (was Re: [agi] references on hypercomputation?)

2008-12-16 Thread Tim Freeman
From: Ben Goertzel b...@goertzel.org I'm considering writing a paper on hypercomputation, ... If I understand right, hypercomputation is theoretical computer science arguments of the form If I had an oracle for the halting problem, then... or If I had a machine that could complete an infinite

Re: Why? (was Re: [agi] references on hypercomputation?)

2008-12-16 Thread Ben Goertzel
I'm going to write a paper A) demonstrating completely clearly why the idea of hypercomputation is scientifically useless B) pointing out that, while it *is* logically possible that AGI requires hypercomputation, if so the implication is that AGI can never be created or understood via scientific

[agi] RE:What is the role of MOSES in Novamente and Open Cog?-----was---- internship opportunity at Google (Mountain View, CA)

2008-12-16 Thread Ed Porter
Moshe and Ben, I feel I understand much of Novamente, even parts that I haven't heard explained, because it is quite similar to ideas I had developed before ever hearing about Novamente. But I have never quite understood the role of MOSES in Novamene. I do not question the power of

[agi] Re: [OpenCog] RE:What is the role of MOSES in Novamente and Open Cog?-----was---- internship opportunity at Google (Mountain View, CA)

2008-12-16 Thread Ben Goertzel
Ed, Consider a probabilistic implication of the general form Context Procedure == Goal meaning (if Context C is present) (Procedure P is executed) == (Goal G is satisfied) Suppose that C and G are known but P is not known Then, MOSES may be used to find P That is, if the system knows what

[agi] RE: [OpenCog] Re: What is the role of MOSES in Novamente and Open Cog?-----was---- internship opportunity at Google (Mountain View, CA)

2008-12-16 Thread Ed Porter
Ben, Thanks for your reply, It was helpful. Your answer causes me to ask in what brain-like thinking processes would MOSES be a win over just having the hypergraph itself compute candidate solutions? Hofstader's Copycat has shown that: (a) various relaxations of a given multiple