[agi] Re: Solomonoff Machines – up close and personal

2007-11-11 Thread Shane Legg
. This means that the Solomonoff predictor respects, in some sense, the principle of Occam's razor. That is, a priori, simpler things are considered more likely than complex ones. ED## ??Shane??, what are the major ways programs are used in a Solomonoff machine? Are they used for generating

[agi] Re: How valuable is Solmononoff Induction for real world AGI?

2007-11-09 Thread Shane Legg
and AIXI in the most complete and simple way I could manage to come up with. This should be available before too long once I've done some final polishing up etc. of the text. Cheers, Shane - This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options

Re: [agi] How can you prove form/behaviour are disordered?

2007-06-08 Thread Shane Legg
0.00787499699781238... At least when based on the Turing machine described here: http://www.emis.de/journals/EM/expmath/volumes/11/11.3/Calude361_370.pdf Shane - This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2

Re: [agi] NARS: definition of intelligence

2007-05-23 Thread Shane Legg
Pei, Yes, the book is the best source for most of the topics. Sorry for the absurd price, which I have no way to influence. It's $190. Somebody is making a lot of money on each copy and I'm sure it's not you. To get a 400 page hard cover published at lulu.com is more like $25. Shane

Re: [agi] Intelligence vs Efficient Intelligence

2007-05-21 Thread Shane Legg
Matt, Shane Legg's definition of universal intelligence requires (I believe) complexity but not adaptability. In a universal intelligence test the agent never knows what the environment it is facing is. It can only try to learn from experience and adapt in order to perform well. This means

Re: [agi] definitions of intelligence, again?!

2007-05-17 Thread Shane Legg
is not very powerful and quite stupid. However, at a macro level when you consider trillions of trillions of these acts in a system that has been trained over a couple of decades, the result is the brain of an adult which is indeed powerful and intelligent. Shane - This list is sponsored by AGIRI

Re: [agi] definitions of intelligence, again?!

2007-05-17 Thread Shane Legg
interesting to me, and that it also seems like a pretty good definition of intelligence. Shane - This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=231415user_secret=fabd7936

Re: [agi] Intelligence vs Efficient Intelligence

2007-05-17 Thread Shane Legg
they are. Nevertheless, it is still the end product raw intelligence generated by the system that really excites me, rather than statistics on its internal efficiency. Shane - This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2

Re: [agi] definitions of intelligence, again?!

2007-05-17 Thread Shane Legg
to Goedel incompleteness. To go beyond that point things like evolution may be necessary. Shane - This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=231415user_secret=fabd7936

Re: [agi] definitions of intelligence, again?!

2007-05-16 Thread Shane Legg
test in mind. Cheers Shane - This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=231415user_secret=fabd7936

Re: [agi] definitions of intelligence, again?!

2007-05-16 Thread Shane Legg
a problem, by defining a goal for them, and have them come up with a very clever solution to my problem, they aren't what I'm interested in with my AI work. Shane - This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2

Re: [agi] definitions of intelligence, again?!

2007-05-15 Thread Shane Legg
an intelligence test based on universal intelligence and see how well various AI algorithms perform. Cheers Shane - This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=231415user_secret=fabd7936

Re: [agi] definitions of intelligence, again?!

2007-05-15 Thread Shane Legg
of intelligence that cannot be proven to be intelligent even though it is intelligent. Cheers Shane - This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=231415user_secret=fabd7936

Re: [agi] definitions of intelligence, again?!

2007-05-15 Thread Shane Legg
? NARS can... - accept a number as input? - be instructed to try to maximise this input? - interact with its environment in order to try to do this? I assume NARS is able to do all of these things. Shane - This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change

Re: [agi] Determinism

2007-05-14 Thread Shane Legg
... Anyway, my point is, whether you need math in your programing or not all depends on what it is that you are trying to program. Shane - This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id

Re: [agi] Tommy

2007-05-11 Thread Shane Legg
of their work is. When you publish something on this please let the list know! thanks Shane - This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=231415user_secret=fabd7936

Re: [agi] rule-based NL system

2007-05-02 Thread Shane Legg
intelligence value. Cheers Shane - This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=231415user_secret=fabd7936

Re: [agi] mouse uploading

2007-04-29 Thread Shane Legg
a global brain average I most often see the number 1,000. For rat cortex (which is a bit different to mouse cortex in terms of thickness and density) I usually see the number 10,000 as the average (just for cortex, not the whole brain). Shane On 4/29/07, Matt Mahoney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: [agi] Circular definitions of intelligence

2007-04-29 Thread Shane Legg
would like to pin intelligence down as precisely as possible. I think that if somebody could do this it would be a great step forward. I believe that issues of definition and measurement are the bedrock of good science. Cheers Shane - This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email

Re: [agi] Circular definitions of intelligence

2007-04-29 Thread Shane Legg
to a difficult problem often lies in finding the right way to view the problem, in order words, the right representation. Cheers Shane - This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id

Re: [agi] Circular definitions of intelligence

2007-04-28 Thread Shane Legg
. So let me put the challenge to you: Can you name one well defined process to do with intelligent problem solving that universal intelligence doesn't already test for? Shane - This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http

Re: [agi] Circular definitions of intelligence

2007-04-27 Thread Shane Legg
not sure when that will come out. But my PhD thesis will contain this material and that should be ready in a few months time. Cheers Shane - This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id

Re: [agi] Growing a Brain in Switzerland

2007-04-05 Thread Shane Legg
Brain guys at EPFL... Their model is very complex and definitely not simply some standard numerics package. They are working in collaboration with something like 400 researchers all around the world and the project will be going for at least several decades. Simple it is not. Shane - This list

Re: [agi] Growing a Brain in Switzerland

2007-04-05 Thread Shane Legg
that you can say that their model is simple. Shane - This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?list_id=303

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-24 Thread Shane Legg
. For example, I went to the ALT conference last year to present some work and there were only 40 people. This is the second biggest AI theory conference in the world (after COLT). Other areas like genetic algorithms attract thousands. Shane - This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-23 Thread Shane Legg
. Shane - This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?list_id=303

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-21 Thread Shane Legg
sort of kills it for us. As we will be going into high performance computing, we have no choice but to do the core work in plain C running on Linux. Shane - This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-20 Thread Shane Legg
fast to code and modify, and then the few parts of the code that consume 99.9% of the CPU time get converted into C and carefully optimised. Shane - This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member

Re: [agi] one-shot Turing test

2007-03-09 Thread Shane Legg
. Psycoloquy 7(14) Shane - This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?list_id=303

Re: [agi] Numenta (Hawkins) software released

2007-03-08 Thread Shane Legg
given that they cover not just code, but also all business ideas etc. related to this technology. Shane - This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?list_id=303

Re: [agi] Numenta (Hawkins) software released

2007-03-07 Thread Shane Legg
) was independently developed by your employees or consultants without access to such Confidential Information. Shane On 3/7/07, J. Storrs Hall, PhD. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just noticed this on Slashdot. Open source but not free software, for those of you for whom this makes a difference

Re: [agi] Has anyone read On Intelligence

2007-02-21 Thread Shane Legg
read On Intelligence and are interested in a basic undergraduate overview of neuroscience I'd recommend the classic text book Essentials of Neural Science and Behavior by Kandel, Schwartz and Jessell. Once you've read that much of the scientific literature in the field is understandable. Shane

Re: [agi] Has anyone read On Intelligence

2007-02-21 Thread Shane Legg
of these configurations order to get accurate performance statistics. Then you look at the results and come up with some new ideas and repeat. Thus, even if algorithm Y is a decent AGI when run on hardware X, you probably want 100X computer power in order to develop algorithm Y. Shane - This list is sponsored

Re: [agi] Why so few AGI projects?

2006-09-14 Thread Shane Legg
Eliezer,Shane, what would you do if you had your headway?Say, you won the lottery tomorrow (ignoring the fact that no rational person would buy aticket).Not just AGI - what specifically would you sit down and doall day?I've got a list of things I'd like to be working on. For example, I'd like

Re: [agi] Why so few AGI projects?

2006-09-13 Thread Shane Legg
This is a question that I've thought about from time to time. The conclusionI've come to is that there isn't really one or two reasons, there are many.Surprisingly, most people in academic AI aren't really all that into AI. It's a job. It's more interesting than doing database programming ina

Re: [agi] Definitions of intelligence

2006-09-01 Thread Shane Legg
definitions listed in AIMA(http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/ ), page 2.PeiOn 9/1/06, Shane Legg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As part of some research I've been doing with Prof. Hutter on AIXI and formal definitions of machine intelligence, I've been collecting definitions of intelligence that have been

Re: [agi] Marcus Hutter's lossless compression of human knowledge prize

2006-08-12 Thread Shane Legg
Ben,So you think that, Powerful AGI == good Hutter test resultBut you have a problem with the reverse implication,good Hutter test result =/= Powerful AGIIs this correct? Shane To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com

Re: [agi] Marcus Hutter's lossless compression of human knowledge prize

2006-08-12 Thread Shane Legg
u'll agree that an amazingly outstanding Huttertest result (possibly on an even larger text corpus that included conversations etc.) would allow you to then construct a machinethat would pass the Turing test?Shane To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please

Re: [agi] Marcus Hutter's lossless compression of human knowledge prize

2006-08-12 Thread Shane Legg
passed it, and thus so would the compressor/predictor (assuming that it's amazingly good,or at least as good at predicting my responses as I would be).Shane To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [agi] Marcus Hutter's lossless compression of human knowledge prize

2006-08-12 Thread Shane Legg
But Shane, your 19 year old self had a much larger and more diversevolume of data to go on than just the text or speech that you ingested...I would claim that a blind and deaf person at 19 could pass aTuring test if they had been exposed to enough information overthe years. Especially if they had

Re: [agi] [META] Is there anything we can do to keep junk out of the AGI Forum?

2006-07-26 Thread Shane Legg
Basically, as you can all probably see, Davy has written a chat bot typeof program. If you email him he'll send you a copy --- he says it's a bitover 1.5 MB and runs on XP.It's a bit hard to understand how it works, partly because (by his own confession) he doesn't know much about AI and so

Re: [agi] Flow charts? Source Code? .. Computing Intelligence? How too? ................. ping

2006-07-25 Thread Shane Legg
On 7/25/06, Ben Goertzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmmm...About the measurement of general intelligence in AGI's ...I would tend to advocate a vectorial intelligence approachI'm not against a vector approach. Naturally every intelligent system will have domains in which it is stronger than

Re: [agi] Flow charts? Source Code? .. Computing Intelligence? How too? ................. ping

2006-07-13 Thread Shane Legg
verysimilar stuff. He has a 50 page paper on formal measures of machineintelligence that should be coming out in coming months.I'll make a post here when either of these papers becomes available. Shane To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http

Re: [agi] Flow charts? Source Code? .. Computing Intelligence? How too? ................. ping

2006-07-13 Thread Shane Legg
On 7/13/06, Pei Wang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shane,Do you mean Warren Smith?Yes.Shane To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [agi] Universal Test for AI?...... AGI bottlenecks

2006-06-15 Thread Shane Legg
For a universal test of AI, I would of course suggest universal intelligenceas defined in this report:http://www.idsia.ch/idsiareport/IDSIA-10-06.pdf ShaneOn Fri, 02 Jun 2006 09:15:26 -500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:What is the universal test for the ability of any given AI SYSTEM

Re: [agi] Who's watching us?

2005-12-19 Thread Shane Legg
or so! Shane To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [agi] Who's watching us?

2005-12-19 Thread Shane Legg
: hqda.pentagon.mil lanl.gov defence.gov.au robins.af.mil lockheedmartin.com The Pentagon looked like a spider as they hit multiple pages and selected out particular images and files all in one second. Other patterns of hits look like people with web browsers looking around. Shane To unsubscribe, change

Re: [agi] Who's watching us?

2005-12-19 Thread Shane Legg
their other office worker military friends and before you know it,you're getting hits from 10 different military organisations. I'd never really thought about it before, but I guess people working in thePentagon get bored and read blogs during the day too ;-)I'll take off my tin foil hat now...Shane

Re: [agi] neural network and AGI

2005-12-18 Thread Shane Legg
Ben,My suspicion is that in the brain knowledge is often stored on two levels: * specific neuronal groups correlated with specific informationIn terms of the activation of specific neurons indicating high level concepts,I think there is good evidence of this now. See for example the work of

Re: [agi] neural network and AGI

2005-12-18 Thread Shane Legg
, and most of the problems you describe, wouldhave been reasonable in 2000... but not now, 5 to 6 years later. Shane To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [agi] neural network and AGI

2005-12-18 Thread Shane Legg
Pei,To my mind the key thing with neural networks is that theyare based on large numbers of relatively simple units thatinteract in a local way by sending fairly simple messages.Of course that's still very broad. A CA could be considered a neural network according to this description, and indeedto

Re: [agi] neural network and AGI

2005-12-17 Thread Shane Legg
Hi Pei,As usual, I disagree! I think you are making a straw man argument.The problem is that what you describe as neural networks is just a certainlimited class of neural networks. That class has certain limitations, which you point out. However you can't then extend those conclusions to

[agi] AGI book?

2005-10-07 Thread Shane
Ciao Ben, Is the AGI book published yet? I see that Amazon says that it can be ordered, but I haven't seen you mention the book here on the AGI list? Cheers Shane Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com --- To unsubscribe, change your address

[agi] Growth of computer power

2005-06-23 Thread Shane
://www.top500.org/lists/2005/06/perfdevel/Projected_Performance_Development_1.png I'm sure this continued exponential growth is good news for all you power hungry AGI engineers out there... Shane Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com --- To unsubscribe, change your

Re: [agi] Random paper generator

2005-04-21 Thread Shane
To be fair, they got it accepted to a rather bad conference which sometimes accepts papers without actually reviewing them... as happened in this case. Shane --- Ben Goertzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone who's been frustrated with academia might find this amusing... MIT students

Re: [agi] Cell

2005-02-10 Thread Shane
am currently working on... Cheers Shane Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies. http://au.movies.yahoo.com --- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

[agi] Polyscheme

2004-11-24 Thread Shane
Have any of you heard of Polyscheme before? There's an overview here: http://www.cassimatis.com/polyscheme.html It sounds a lot like Novamente. Shane Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies. http://au.movies.yahoo.com --- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily

[agi] Thesis that might be interesting

2004-11-24 Thread Shane
Here's a PhD thesis by a guy who tried to build an AGI using neural networks and ideas on animal cognition... at least that's my impression from a quick look over the thesis: http://www.lucs.lu.se/People/Christian.Balkenius/PDF/Balkenius.1995.Thesis.pdf Shane Find local movie times

Re: [agi] SOTA 50 GB memory for Windows

2004-08-20 Thread Shane
your only option I think. Shane Peter Voss wrote: What are the best options for large amounts of fast memory for Windows-based systems? I'm looking for price performance (access time) for: 1) Cached RAID 2) RAM disks 3) Internal RAM (using 64 bit architecture?) 4) other Thanks for any info. Peter

Re: [agi] virtual worlds

2004-03-07 Thread Shane
results. Shane --- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

[agi] Open AGI?

2004-03-05 Thread Shane Legg
required to build a working nuclear weapon for example. What are your thoughts? Surely this has been debated many times before I suppose? Cheers Shane --- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [agi] Complexity of Evolving an AGI

2004-03-04 Thread Shane Legg
, this is only a weekend hobby for me --- I need to focus my energies on getting my PhD done. Building an AGI might have to wait. ciao Shane --- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [agi] FYI: AAAI Symposium on Human-Level Intelligence

2004-01-01 Thread Shane Legg
and so on form the basis for general intelligence. Somehow I'd managed to miss seeing these people and their projects in the past. For example: http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/genesis/ http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/HIE/index.html http://www.cassimatis.com/ Shane Pei Wang wrote: 2004 AAAI Fall

Re: [agi] FYI: AAAI Symposium on Human-Level Intelligence

2004-01-01 Thread Shane Legg
Also I think this is pretty cool in case you miss it: http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/genesis/movies.html --- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

[agi] Two nice non-technical articles

2003-10-21 Thread shane legg
Agi types might like these two articles, http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/33463.html http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/33486.html Shane Want to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo

Re: [agi] Complexity of environment of agi agent

2003-09-20 Thread Shane Legg
resources for this new thing. Shane --- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [agi] Complexity of environment of agi agent

2003-09-20 Thread Shane Legg
is 100,000 numbers each of 5 characters giving a 500,000 character pattern of digits from 0 to 9. A human can learn this reasonably easily but your AI won't. It would take something more like a mega byte to store the pattern. Actually with the overhead of all the rules it would be much bigger. Shane

Re: [agi] Complexity of environment of agi agent

2003-09-19 Thread Shane Legg
difficult an environment is is not the complexity of the environment, but rather the complexity of the simplest solution to the problem that you need to solve in that environment. Shane P.S. one of these days I'm going to get around to replying to your other emails to me!! sorry about the delay

RE: [agi] Discovering the Capacity of Human Memory

2003-09-16 Thread shane legg
is far far far to large at 1.6 x 10^-35 m) and so on... Does anybody have a better explanation? Shane --- Amara D. Angelica [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.kurzweilai.net/news/news_printable.html?id=2417 Discovering the Capacity of Human Memory Brain and Mind, August 2003

Re: [agi] Discovering the Capacity of Human Memory

2003-09-16 Thread shane legg
then becomes just log_2 (10^8432) = 8432 * log_2 (10) = 28,010 bits or about 3.5 kilo bytes of storage. I'd like to think that I have more than a 3.5 Kb brain!! They really should have sanity checked their results. Shane --- Pei Wang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The paper can be accessed at http

RE: [agi] Discovering the Capacity of Human Memory

2003-09-16 Thread shane legg
I used is equation 1.13 which is on page 2. Shane --- Brad Wyble [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's also disconcerting that something like this can make it through the review process. Transdisciplinary is oftentimes a pseudonym for combining half-baked and ill-formed ideas from multiple

[agi] Robert Hecht-Nielsen's stuff

2003-07-19 Thread Shane Legg
day with my new ADSL account. Aside from his, well, rather over the top style of presentation, what do people think of this? I haven't seen any comment to this list and don't know much neuroscience myself either. He has a book too, has anybody read it? Cheers Shane --- To unsubscribe, change

Re: [agi] Robert Hecht-Nielsen's stuff

2003-07-19 Thread Shane Legg
expressions to represent knowledge. Surely Cyc is in this tradition and so, from Hecht-Nielsen's point of view, must be on the wrong track? Shane --- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [agi] Request for invention of new word

2003-07-04 Thread Shane Legg
Semiborg? :) Shane Ben Goertzel wrote: Hi , For a speculative futuristic article I'm writing (for a journal issue edited by Francis Heylighen), I need a new word: a word to denote a mind that is halfway between an individual mind and a society of minds. Not a hive-mind, but rather a community

Re: [agi] more interesting stuff

2003-02-26 Thread Shane Legg
of time --- the problem is likely to remain very complex in some sense (excluding weird stuff like finding new laws of physics and computation etc... of course). Cheers Shane --- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com

Re: [agi] A probabilistic/algorithmic puzzle...

2003-02-20 Thread Shane Legg
of thought. Yeah, just a fancy Venn diagram really used to generate reasonably consistent data sets. Cheers Shane --- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [agi] AIXI and Solomonoff induction

2003-02-15 Thread Shane Legg
(third edition) of Li and Vitanyi sometime this year which will be interesting. Li and Vitanyi have also written quite a few introductions to the basics of the field many of which you should be able to find on the internet. Cheers Shane The Li and Vitanyi book is actually intended to be a graduate

Re: [agi] AIXI and Solomonoff induction

2003-02-15 Thread Shane Legg
-- though I don't exactly follow it much. Cheers Shane --- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [agi] AIXI and Solomonoff induction

2003-02-12 Thread Shane Legg
induction and AIXI...) Thanks for your comments. Cheers Shane --- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [agi] Breaking AIXI-tl

2003-02-12 Thread Shane Legg
vs. AIXI. Cheers Shane --- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [agi] AIXI and Solomonoff induction

2003-02-12 Thread Shane Legg
in these terms is because I suspected Ockham's razor to relate to the compressibility idea as you stated; and I've Sounds to me like you need to read Li and Vitanyi's book on Kolmogorov complexity theory :) http://www.cwi.nl/~paulv/kolmogorov.html Cheers Shane --- To unsubscribe, change your

Re: [agi] Godel and AIXI

2003-02-11 Thread Shane Legg
Which is more or less why I figured you weren't going to do a Penrose on us as you would then fact the usual reply... Which begs the million dollar question: Just what is this cunning problem that you have in mind? :) Shane Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote: Shane Legg wrote: Eliezer S

Re: [agi] AIXI and Solomonoff induction

2003-02-11 Thread Shane Legg
holds for the first 13.7 billion years of the universe and then reverses? It seems very very very unlikely, but we are not 100% certain that it won't happen. Cheers Shane --- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com

Re: [agi] An Artificial General Intelligence in the Making

2003-02-03 Thread Shane Legg
but I don't really see why doing so would make much sense. Cheers Shane Daniel Colonnese wrote: For those of us who are following the KNOW thread, could somebody comment on the capabilities of KNOW beyond existing knowledge representation language such as the ARFF format for the popular WEKA

Re: [agi] C-T Thesis (or a version thereof) - Is it useable as anin-principle argument for strong AI?

2003-01-15 Thread Shane Legg
defined process then it must be possible to implement the process that the brain carries out on a Turing machine. This is the claim of Strong AI. Does that sounds correct to people? Cheers Shane Anand AI wrote: Hi everyone, After having read quite a bit about the the C-T Thesis, and its

Re: [agi] AI and computation (was: The Next Wave)

2003-01-11 Thread Shane Legg
on this first issue. Shane --- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [agi] Early Apps.

2002-12-27 Thread Shane Legg
of complexity to deal with all the additional messiness required. Enough rating for today! :) Shane --- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [agi] Language and AGI (was Re: Early Apps)

2002-12-27 Thread Shane Legg
a truck load of complexity to an already difficult problem just seems absurd. I guess people continue to do AI with languages like English because that is what is of practical use and where more money is likely to be. Shane --- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate

Re: [agi] TLoZ: Link's Awakening.

2002-12-11 Thread Shane Legg
, in fact it's my PhD area) Cheers Shane Alan Grimes wrote: In 1986 Nintendo released a game called The Legend of Zelda. It remained on the top-10 list for the next five years. So why do I mention this totally irrelevant game on this list? Well, I'ts become apparent that I am well suited for a niche

Re: [agi] TLoZ: Link's Awakening.

2002-12-11 Thread Shane Legg
One addition/correction: Shane Legg wrote: An AGI wouldn't have this and so playing the game would be a lot harder. Of course and AGI *could* have this... but you need to build a big knowledge base into your system and that's a big big job... or custom build a knowledge base

Re: [agi] AI on TV

2002-12-09 Thread Shane Legg
-research.com/people/steve/ Shane --- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [agi] AI on TV

2002-12-09 Thread Shane Legg
stuff and forget about logic and what thinking is and all that sort of thing. This is what you see now in many areas of AI research, Brooks and the Cog project at MIT being one such example. Shane --- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please

Re: [agi] AI on TV

2002-12-09 Thread Shane Legg
there. Shane --- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [agi] Inventory of AGI projects

2002-11-05 Thread shane legg
on a mathematical definition of intelligence that he's come up with. Cheers Shane --- Ben Goertzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Inspired by a recent post, here is my attempt at a list of serious AGI projects underway on the planet at this time. If anyone knows of anything that should