RE: [agi] Hard Wired Switch

2003-03-03 Thread Kevin Copple
as conceptually ineffectual is rather puzzling. Kevin Copple --- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [agi] META: Alan, please cool it...

2003-01-20 Thread Kevin Copple
seen in my two months of participation here. I certainly hope that these several people don't represent the patience and open mindedness of most of the folks here. If you unsub Alan, please do me a favor and unsub me at the same time. Kevin Copple --- To unsubscribe, change your address

RE: [agi] Thinking may be overrated.

2002-12-29 Thread Kevin Copple
the extent to which it is involved in our own thought, it seems to be an intriguing ingredient. Perhaps artificial trial and error systems can lead us to pure intelligence. That is, if pure intelligence is not an illusion, a mirage, an unachievable holy grail. Cheers, Kevin Copple --- To unsubscribe

[agi] Thinking may be overrated.

2002-12-28 Thread Kevin Copple
Perhaps thinking is overrated. It sometimes seems the way progress is made, and lessons learned, is predominately by trial and error. Thomas Edison's light bulb is good example, especially since it is the very symbol of idea. From what I know, Edison's contribution was his desire to make the

[agi] Natural Language DB's and AI

2002-12-26 Thread Kevin Copple
systems and databases do truly amazing things in my various experiences. But nothing so amazing as seeing EllaZ deal blackjack, or place the entire contents of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason into a single scrolling browser textbox :-) Catch you all later . . . Kevin Copple P.S. I have one

RE: [agi] EllaZ systems

2002-12-09 Thread Kevin Copple
Hey Ben, It seems that recent college IT grads here hope to earn about 3000rmb (375usd) a month, but often must settle for less. This is based on my rather limited knowledge. Hopefully I will know more in the near future, since I have been getting the word out and have a local headhunter

[agi] gibberish/foreign language detector

2002-12-08 Thread Kevin Copple
Thanks for the idea and references Cliff. It is common for a visitor to test a chatterbot by pounding on the keyboard, speaking a foreign language, typing binary code, etc. Currently in EllaZ systems, if the input exceeds a minimum length (I don't recall the number of characters off-hand) we