Re: [agi] Anyone going to the Singularity Summit?

2010-08-10 Thread David Jones
Bob, their are serious issues with such a suggestion. The biggest issue, is that there is a good chance it wouldn't work because diseases, including the common cold, have incubation times. So, you may not have any symptoms at all, yet you can pass it on to other people. And even if we did know wh

Re: [agi] Anyone going to the Singularity Summit?

2010-08-10 Thread Ben Goertzel
> I should dredge up and forward past threads with them. There are some flaws > in their chain of reasoning, so that it won't be all that simple to sort the > few relevant from the many irrelevant mutations. There is both a huge amount > of noise, and irrelevant adaptations to their environment and

Re: [agi] Anyone going to the Singularity Summit?

2010-08-10 Thread Bob Mottram
On 10 August 2010 18:43, Bob Mottram wrote: > here.  For example, if an epidemic breaks out, why should you > vaccinate first? That should have been "who" rather than "why" :-) Just thinking a little further, in hand waving mode, If something like the common cold were added as a status within s

Re: [agi] Anyone going to the Singularity Summit?

2010-08-10 Thread Bryan Bishop
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 6:25 AM, Steve Richfield wrote: > Note my prior posting explaining my inability even to find a source of > "used" mice for kids to use in high-school anti-aging experiments, all while > university labs are now killing their vast numbers of such mice. So long as > things rem

Re: [agi] Anyone going to the Singularity Summit?

2010-08-10 Thread David Jones
The think the biggest thing to remember here is that general AI could be applied to many different problems in parallel by many different people. They would help with many aspects of the problem solving process, not just a single one and certainly not just applied to a single experiment/study. I'm

Re: [agi] Anyone going to the Singularity Summit?

2010-08-10 Thread Bob Mottram
On 10 August 2010 16:44, Ben Goertzel wrote: > I'm writing an article on the topic for H+ Magazine, which will appear in the > next couple weeks ... I'll post a link to it when it appears > > I'm not advocating applying AI in the absence of new experiments of course.  > I've been working closely

Re: [agi] Anyone going to the Singularity Summit?

2010-08-10 Thread Steve Richfield
Ben, On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 8:44 AM, Ben Goertzel wrote: > > I'm writing an article on the topic for H+ Magazine, which will appear in > the next couple weeks ... I'll post a link to it when it appears > > I'm not advocating applying AI in the absence of new experiments of > course. I've been

Re: [agi] Compressed Cross-Indexed Concepts

2010-08-10 Thread Mike Tintner
[from: Concept-Rich Mathematics Instruction] Teacher: Very good. Now, look at this drawing and explain what you see. [Draws.] Debora: It's a pie with three pieces. Teacher: Tell us about the pieces. Debora: Three thirds. Teachers: What is the difference among the pieces? Debora: This is t

Re: [agi] Anyone going to the Singularity Summit?

2010-08-10 Thread David Jones
Steve, Capable and effective AI systems would be very helpful at every step of the research process. Basic research is a major area I think that AGI will be applied to. In fact, that's exactly where I plan to apply it first. Dave On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 7:25 AM, Steve Richfield wrote: > Ben, >

Re: [agi] Anyone going to the Singularity Summit?

2010-08-10 Thread Ben Goertzel
I'm writing an article on the topic for H+ Magazine, which will appear in the next couple weeks ... I'll post a link to it when it appears I'm not advocating applying AI in the absence of new experiments of course. I've been working closely with Genescient, applying AI tech to analyze the genomics

Re: [agi] Nao Nao

2010-08-10 Thread David Jones
Way too pessimistic in my opinion. On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 7:06 PM, John G. Rose wrote: > Aww, so cute. > > > > I wonder if it has a Wi-Fi connection, DHCP's an IP address, and relays > sensory information back to the main servers with all the other Nao's all > collecting personal data in a massiv

Re: [agi] Anyone going to the Singularity Summit?

2010-08-10 Thread Steve Richfield
Ben, On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 1:07 PM, Ben Goertzel wrote: > > I'm speaking there, on Ai applied to life extension; and participating in a > panel discussion on narrow vs. general AI... > > Having some interest, expertise, and experience in both areas, I find it hard to imagine much interplay at a