[agi] AGI interests

2007-03-26 Thread DEREK ZAHN
;m a dilettante. I am most interested in spending my time wondering how small a chunk of "code" could implement AGI. I believe that the physical and cultural structure of a human being's environment provide the vast majority of the complexity of a human mind, and there ma

[agi] AGI != Singularity

2007-04-15 Thread Russell Wallace
On 4/16/07, Benjamin Goertzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The AGI systems humans create will be understandable by humans in principle. Agreed. But let's call these AGI0 Then, AGI0 will create AGI1, which will be understandable by AGI0 in principle... And, AGI1 will create

[agi] AGI Taxonomy

2007-05-09 Thread John G. Rose
Is there a standard taxonomy of AGI that is referred to when talking about different AGIs or near AGIs? Saying that a software is an AGI or not an AGI is not descriptive enough. There are probably very few AGIs but many close AGIs and then many, many AIs. Software programs are like the plant

[agi] AGI Consortium

2007-06-08 Thread Mark Waser
from http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/geekend/?p=696 Bruce Sterling: All blogs will die by 2018 a.. Date: June 5th, 2007 b.. Blogger: The Trivia Geek Security expert and tech curmudgeon Bruce Sterling famously quipped at this year's South-by-Southwest conference that "I don't think there w

[agi] AGI introduction

2007-06-22 Thread Pei Wang
Hi, I put a brief introduction to AGI at http://nars.wang.googlepages.com/AGI-Intro.htm , including an "AGI Overview" followed by "Representative AGI Projects". It is basically a bunch of links and quotations organized according to my opinion. Hopefully it can help some ne

[agi] AGI Motivation

2007-10-01 Thread Don Detrich
se is fairly self evident. My question is what will be the motivations behind AGI behavior? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs I believe you can trace most human motivation back to our biological origin. Even some higher level needs related to self-esteem can be traced ba

[agi] AGI morality

2003-02-08 Thread Ben Goertzel
Hi, Some time ago I promised Eliezer a response on question he posed regarding "AGI morality." I was hoping I'd find the time to write a really detailed response, mirroring the detailed ideas on the topic that exist in my mind. But that time has not arisen, and so I'm g

[agi] AGI meetings?

2003-10-06 Thread G71AI
Hi folks, I'm a new member of this AGI email group. I would like to find out if those of you who are living in the Washington DC metro area are sometimes getting together (IRL) to discuss AGI related algorithms. If so then let me know please. Thanks, Jiri Jelinek Senior Software Engineer

[agi] Open AGI?

2004-03-05 Thread Shane Legg
Hi all, I'm curious about the general sentiments that people have about the appropriate level of openness for an AGI project. My mind certainly isn't made up on the issue and I can see reasons for going either way. If a single individual or small group of people made a sudden break

[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 addres

[agi] AGI bottlenecks

2006-05-30 Thread Yan King Yin
  We need to identify AGI bottlenecks and tackle them systematically.   Basically the AGI problem is to: 1. design a knowledge representation 2. design learning algorithms 3. fill the thing with knowledge   The difficulties are: 1. the KR may be inadequate, but the designer doesn't know

[agi] Wiki AGI

2006-11-18 Thread YKY (Yan King Yin)
James: you said you're building a wiki-style AGI, and I've heard another guy with a similar idea. I want to know if you intend it to have free contributions or is there a way to pay the contributors? It sounds like a good idea, I'm interested to help, but if it's free I&#

[agi] AGI & Alife

2010-07-26 Thread Linas Vepstas
I saw the following post from Antonio Alberti, on the linked-in discussion group: >ALife and AGI > >Dear group participants. > >The relation among AGI and ALife greatly interests me. However, too few recent >works try to relate them. For exemple, many papers presented in AG

[agi] (AGI) Toddlers hold promisses like AGI

2005-06-12 Thread DGoe
el. Even a small gain over a year can mount to a large number over many years and in early times, the learning curve will steep. Dan G. >From : Ben Goertzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To : Subject : Re: [agi] (AGI) Start up cost... Dat

[agi] Languages for AGI

2007-02-17 Thread A. T. Murray
http://modularai.corecoding.com is the Modular AI Project. http://modularai.messageforums.net/general-discussion_f3.html is where AI enthusiasts may pick a language to code Modular AI. http://modularai.messageforums.net/c-for-modular-ai_t37.html http://modularai.messageforums.net/c-for-modular-ai

[agi] The AGI Test

2007-03-13 Thread Chuck Esterbrook
index.html http://dir.salon.com/story/tech/feature/2003/02/27/loebner_part_2/index.html And briefly discussed on this list here: http://www.mail-archive.com/agi@v2.listbox.com/msg01155.html On the one hand, I respect that someone set up a contest modeled after the Turing Test. On the other hand, there

Re: [agi] AGI interests

2007-03-26 Thread Jef Allbright
s not true for most list members. I'll start. I'm a dilettante. I am most interested in spending my time wondering how small a chunk of "code" could implement AGI. I believe that the physical and cultural structure of a human being's environment provide the vast majority

Re: [agi] AGI interests

2007-03-26 Thread Jean-Paul Van Belle
Derek, great idea. Here's my story/interest Ever since a kid (and playing with the very first computers) I have been fascinated & intrigued by the concept of AGI (tho not necessarily by that name). I've had a number of different career paths and many different hobbies

Re: [agi] AGI interests

2007-03-26 Thread Richard Loosemore
physicist, have done more professional software development than I care to think about, and have also done other work. I have a specific framework that encapsulates how I think an AGI should be designed. I have made a number of references to this framework in various places, but have not yet p

Re: [agi] AGI interests

2007-03-26 Thread John Rose
#x27;m building a Speech Recognition/TTS IVR for a pharmaceutical company... just rolling it live. I consider myself an entry level AGI’er but have been following along (lurking) for at least 10 years. I feel strongly that many of the answers in AGI design lie in group theory and category theor

Re: [agi] AGI interests

2007-03-26 Thread David Clark
- Original Message - From: "DEREK ZAHN" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 10:07 AM Subject: [agi] AGI interests > It would be interesting to see what basic interests and views the members of > this list hold. For a few people, published wo

Re: [agi] AGI interests

2007-03-26 Thread Elihu Herskovics
;m a freshman in college pursuing an electrical engineering degree with a leaning towards CS. My interest in AGI started a few years ago and has recently started to grow rapidly, to the point that I now hope to enter a career involved in either AGI programming or neural interfacing work. I'm

Re: [agi] AGI interests

2007-03-26 Thread Russell Wallace
I don't believe AI in the sense of a self-willed mind is going to happen; fortunately, it doesn't need to. The two problems I want to help solve are the global loss of fifty million lives a year, and the difficulty in living in the 99.999...999% of the universe that isn't Earth. Each of these is a

RE: [agi] AGI interests

2007-03-26 Thread Tim
on the AGI problem for some 25+ years in my spare time which unfortunately is scarce. I also use .Net but I developed a (recursive) Web Service that mimics the functions of a Neuron. I use SQL2005 as the means to define the Neurons in my artificial brain. This is at least my latest attempt after

Re: [agi] AGI interests

2007-03-26 Thread Paul Tiffany
sicologist and avant-garde composer. Much of my interest in music involves the level of incorporation of technology into music: the paradox of the recorded (or mic'ed) acoustic or a cappella performances, for instance. I have almost no technical experience with AGI. The fact that I'

Re: [agi] AGI interests

2007-03-26 Thread Mark Waser
*my* concept of AGI to the concept level and above. I am not doing any sensory work other than with textual and electronic data (well, except for some dabbling in two-dimensional image reading for a specific project). I think that this is a rational partition and does not violate the Genera

Re: [agi] AGI interests

2007-03-26 Thread Matt Mahoney
As you might know, my interest is data compression. Its relation to AGI is explained in http://cs.fit.edu/~mmahoney/compression/rationale.html To summarize, you need to solve AI to compress text well. I don't pretend to know how to do that. But I do claim that it is a better way to me

Re: [agi] AGI interests

2007-03-27 Thread YKY (Yan King Yin)
I have been working on AGI seriously since 2004. I also believe that the "core" algorithms needed for AGI could be very compact (though I won't make an estimation of its size), with the rest of the information encoded "declaratively" in the knowledgebase. In a nutshe

Re: [agi] AGI interests

2007-03-27 Thread rooftop8000
--- "YKY (Yan King Yin)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been working on AGI seriously since 2004. I also believe that the > "core" algorithms needed for AGI could be very compact (though I won't make > an estimation of its size), with the rest of

Re: [agi] AGI interests

2007-03-27 Thread YKY (Yan King Yin)
On 3/28/07, rooftop8000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: if you go commercial, it will force you to focus on the wrong things to get direct results. There is no money in AGI (it takes too long.. its exact aim is to avoid quick applications.. someone can just steal your ideas once they are dev

Re: [agi] AGI interests

2007-03-27 Thread Matt Mahoney
--- "YKY (Yan King Yin)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One thing that I really don't understand is why so many people I've talked > to about AGI insist on working for free. If you can give me a little > explanation (of your view), I'd greatly appreciat

Re: [agi] AGI interests

2007-03-28 Thread Russell Wallace
On 3/27/07, YKY (Yan King Yin) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: One thing that I really don't understand is why so many people I've talked to about AGI insist on working for free. Do you have a source of finance? This is not a rhetorical question; if you have, I'd be very inte

Re: [agi] AGI interests

2007-03-28 Thread kevin . osborne
m in the mathematics|theory domain and needs competent programmers (which I'm very far from being at this point, even after 10 years in the field) as a fan of AGI: watching the smart guys (like Novamente) do the real work of laying out the problem domain in theory and positing solutions that

Re: [agi] AGI interests

2007-03-29 Thread YKY (Yan King Yin)
lso I believe getting subsequent VC funding is not that difficult. But it seems that AGI is more complex than a conventional startup. It is not programming that is the problem, at least not yet. Currently we need the ability of a group of people to come up with *algorithms* that work within a

Re: [agi] AGI interests

2007-03-29 Thread Russell Wallace
On 3/29/07, YKY (Yan King Yin) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yes, I think I have "seed" capital, that is enough to get a conventional startup started. Also I believe getting subsequent VC funding is not that difficult. That's more than most people have! I think the reaso

Re: [agi] AGI interests

2007-04-10 Thread Hank Conn
ds competent programmers (which I'm very far from being at this point, even after 10 years in the field) as a fan of AGI: watching the smart guys (like Novamente) do the real work of laying out the problem domain in theory and positing solutions that make the leap between sound logic and run

Re: [agi] AGI interests

2007-04-10 Thread Hank Conn
I'm graduating with my BS in Computer Science specialized in AI this fall, and then probably doing the MSAI program here at UGA. Eventually I want to be at the level where I can contribute real progress towards AGI/FAI. Maybe after I get my MS try to join an AGI project (e.g Novamente,

Re: [agi] AGI interests

2007-04-12 Thread Philip Goetz
On 3/26/07, John Rose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I consider myself an entry level AGI'er but have been following along (lurking) for at least 10 years. I feel strongly that many of the answers in AGI design lie in group theory and category theory What do you mean by that? &q

Re: [agi] AGI interests

2007-04-12 Thread Benjamin Goertzel
t's relevant to the foundations of functional programming, for example Personally I don't think it's all that relevant to AGI engineering, except insofar as an AGI system may use functional programming methods for procedure representation. However, I do think category theory mig

Re: [agi] AGI interests

2007-04-12 Thread Cenny Wenner
ng to see what basic interests and views the members of this list hold. For a few people, published works answer this pretty clearly but that's not true for most list members. I'll start. I'm a dilettante. I am most interested in spending my time wondering how small a chunk of &

RE: [agi] AGI interests

2007-04-12 Thread John Rose
ns less hardware for storage (RAM, Disk, etc.), and less bandwidth. John -Original Message- From: Benjamin Goertzel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2007 5:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [agi] AGI interests > I only know that category theory is

Re: [agi] AGI interests

2007-04-13 Thread Benjamin Goertzel
idth. John -Original Message- From: Benjamin Goertzel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2007 5:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [agi] AGI interests > I only know that category theory is some more rarified and > specialized type of group theory. I'd li

RE: [agi] AGI interests

2007-04-13 Thread John Rose
Here is a chunk of code generously donated by a Dr. Peter Ivankov which is a nice start on a Category Theory (CT) engine or perhaps some sort of representation mixing machine... I was thinking of taking this and having it operate over the Wordnet DB or some open source Ontology. The fun part would

[agi] Low I.Q. AGI

2007-04-15 Thread Eric B. Ramsay
There is an easy assumption of most writers on this board that once the AGI exists, it's route to becoming a singularity is a sure thing. Why is that? In humans there is a wide range of "smartness" in the population. People face intellectual thresholds that they cannot cross be

Re: [agi] AGI != Singularity

2007-04-16 Thread Bob Mottram
ilities, this alone would suffice to require humans to stay in the loop. The point of all this isn't to pour cold water on people's ideas, it's to point out that we will make more progress if we stop thinking of AGI as a human child. It's a completely different kind of thing, and more

Re: [agi] AGI interests

2007-04-17 Thread James Ratcliff
eveloped in a fairly brief time-frame (i.e. during *my* lifetime), I am also extremely interested in (Friendly!) motivational systems. For *my* purposes, I am limiting *my* concept of AGI to the concept level and above. I am not doing any sensory work other than with textual and e

Re: [agi] AGI interests

2007-04-17 Thread James Ratcliff
Matt Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: As you might know, my interest is data compression. Its relation to AGI is explained in http://cs.fit.edu/~mmahoney/compression/rationale.html To summarize, you need to solve AI to compress text well. I don't pretend to know how to do that

Re: [agi] AGI interests

2007-04-17 Thread YKY (Yan King Yin)
On 4/18/07, James Ratcliff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Mark, This is the closest Ive seen so far to my work and what I believe in, Have you got some more specific information / code / algorithm / papers on gathering and processing world information and discovery of? I have been working with

Re: [agi] AGI interests

2007-04-17 Thread Mark Waser
d therefore likely to advance you past previous systems)? Mark - Original Message - From: James Ratcliff To: agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 3:10 PM Subject: Re: [agi] AGI interests Mark, This is the closest Ive seen so far to my work

Re: [agi] AGI interests

2007-04-17 Thread Mark Waser
s / rules. Why does it seem easier? No one has gotten it to work in the past. What do you think you know that they don't? To me, it seems much easier to have an automated system encode the facts/rules. Mark - Original Message - From: YKY (Yan King Yin)

Re: [agi] AGI interests

2007-04-17 Thread James Ratcliff
"YKY (Yan King Yin)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 4/18/07, James Ratcliff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark, > This is the closest Ive seen so far to my work and what I believe in, Have > you got some more specific information / code / algorithm / papers on > gathering and processing worl

Re: [agi] AGI interests

2007-04-17 Thread James Ratcliff
have an automated system encode the facts/rules. Mark - Original Message - From:YKY (Yan King Yin) To: agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 3:30PM Subject: Re: [agi] AGI interests On 4/18/07, James Ratcliff <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: [agi] AGI interests

2007-04-17 Thread Russell Wallace
On 4/17/07, James Ratcliff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: A simple list, or set of goals for an AGI to accomplish reasonably I would find very useful, and something to work for. I'm not entirely optimistic about getting everyone on this list to agree on such, but if I were to boil

Re: [agi] AGI interests

2007-04-17 Thread James Ratcliff
AIL PROTECTED]> wrote: A simple list, or set of goals for an AGI to accomplish reasonably I would find very useful, and something to work for. I'm not entirely optimistic about getting everyone on this list to agree on such, but if I were to boil it down, I think the goal to aim for is t

Re: [agi] AGI interests

2007-04-17 Thread YKY (Yan King Yin)
nance, etc. Cyc actually has all of these things, so it seems to me that Cyc fails for more subtle reasons. I think the goal of the project is to be able to answer queries about the stories etc. Explicit reconstruction of the videos is not essential, as we can be sure that the AGI actually under

Re: [agi] AGI interests

2007-04-17 Thread Benjamin Goertzel
Mark Waser wrote: To me, it seems much easier to have an automated system encode the facts/rules. Indeed ... but obviously, no one has solved the NLP problem... there are no semantic analysis systems out there that can map complex sentences into logical relationships in an adequately reliab

Re: [agi] AGI interests

2007-04-17 Thread Russell Wallace
On 4/17/07, YKY (Yan King Yin) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think the goal of the project is to be able to answer queries about the stories etc. Explicit reconstruction of the videos is not essential, as we can be sure that the AGI actually understands things by asking it question

Re: [agi] AGI interests

2007-04-18 Thread Mark Waser
om: "Benjamin Goertzel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 10:04 PM Subject: Re: [agi] AGI interests Mark Waser wrote: To me, it seems much easier to have an automated system encode the facts/rules. Indeed ... but obviously, no one has solved the NLP p

Re: [agi] AGI interests

2007-04-18 Thread Benjamin Goertzel
Hi Mark, Preposition disambiguation is "badly unsolved" because (I believe) it requires domain knowledge to do effectively and people are trying to do it without domain knowledge. The same is true of reference resolution. I think that these things are eminently soluble once you have the domain

Re: [agi] AGI interests

2007-04-18 Thread James Ratcliff
Straight parsing the web runs into nasty problems really quickly, mainly lack of trusted sources and bad grammar to parse. You have to restrict it to a much smaller set of data items, such as novels, news sources, or something like wikipedia... These mediums all provide you with a good deal o

Re: [agi] AGI interests

2007-04-18 Thread James Ratcliff
c. Explicit reconstruction of the videos is not essential, as we can be sure that the AGI actually understands things by asking it questions that require spatio-temporal reasoning. Suppose we postulate that for the sake of argument - why would we want to avoid it? The biggest pitfall of th

Re: [agi] AGI interests

2007-04-18 Thread Mark Waser
dge and resolving conflicts. I think that we are attacking two very different, complementary problems. Mark - Original Message - From: "Benjamin Goertzel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 9:51 AM Subject: Re: [agi] AGI interests Hi

Re: [agi] AGI interests

2007-04-18 Thread Benjamin Goertzel
A clearer way of stating how I perceive our approaches as differing would be to say that I believe that you are learning by discovery while I am accumulating already discovered knowledge and resolving conflicts. I think that we are attacking two very different, complementary problems. My hypot

Re: [agi] AGI interests

2007-04-18 Thread James Ratcliff
Using stats on a huge realm of text can help with both the proposition problem, and the domain knowledge creation both. By simply searching "baseball" you start getting a connection network of items and interaction that describe that domain, and many prepositions are statisticaly tied to their

Re: [agi] AGI interests

2007-04-18 Thread James Ratcliff
Forgot to ask, Ben do you a full print demo of the 3D system or a paper that deals directly with that yet? Im goign to try and install it later today and start working with it some. Is it only linux based? James Ratcliff Benjamin Goertzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Mark, > Preposition disa

Re: [agi] AGI interests

2007-04-18 Thread Benjamin Goertzel
Hi James, For specific guidance on installing AGISim you should go to the SourceForge page http://sourceforge.net/projects/agisim/ and ideally join the sourceforge mailing list for the AGISim project. I am not sure if AGISim has been ported to Windows or not, someone on that list can tell you.

Re: [agi] AGI interests

2007-04-18 Thread Mark Waser
h a really kick-ass argument resolution system, I'll be pretty ecstatic too. - Original Message - From: "Benjamin Goertzel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 10:43 AM Subject: Re: [agi] AGI interests A clearer way of stating how I perce

Re: [agi] AGI interests

2007-04-18 Thread James Ratcliff
Guys, Your both right! Well, I think you need both really, but they do compliment and help eachother out, much information is given in text, and to ignore that means at some point in time you will be telling the bot that, over and over, to teach it, and likewise, there are something your just

Re: [agi] AGI interests

2007-04-18 Thread YKY (Yan King Yin)
On 4/18/07, Russell Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 4/17/07, YKY (Yan King Yin) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think the goal of the project is to be able to answer queries about the stories etc. Explicit reconstruction of the videos is not essential, as we can be su

Re: [agi] AGI interests

2007-04-18 Thread Russell Wallace
On 4/18/07, YKY (Yan King Yin) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From my perspective, video generation is not required for AGI. It could be an impressive demo, but that's all. Am I missing your point? What kind of application can you think of for video generation? How can it &quo

Re: [agi] AGI interests

2007-04-18 Thread YKY (Yan King Yin)
hat an AGI should look like could be described as a smart CAD program. Now, I agree answering commonsense queries would also be useful, and by all means let that also be a feature. But what will happen to a project that focuses _only_ on text I/O? I can answer that: short-term progress using trick

Re: [agi] AGI interests

2007-04-18 Thread Russell Wallace
On 4/19/07, YKY (Yan King Yin) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It is actually a creative process to render what is in the 'mind' to a visual form. In a sense it is similar to the task of NL generation. Oh yes, absolutely. - This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsub

Re: [agi] AGI interests

2007-04-19 Thread James Ratcliff
in areas like movies, video games, mechanical engineering, > architecture; my vision of what an AGI should look like could be described as > a smart CAD program. > > Now, I agree answering commonsense queries would also be useful, and by all > means let that also be a feature.

Re: [agi] AGI Taxonomy

2007-05-09 Thread Benjamin Goertzel
There's certainly no standard... at http://www.agiri.org/wiki/index.php?title=AGI_Projects I used 3 crude categories -- Neural net based -- Logic based -- Integrative ;-) On 5/9/07, John G. Rose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there a standard taxonomy of AGI that is refer

Re: [agi] AGI Taxonomy

2007-05-09 Thread J. Storrs Hall, PhD.
other things in ways that humans have a harder time relating to Josh On Wednesday 09 May 2007 06:14, John G. Rose wrote: > Is there a standard taxonomy of AGI that is referred to when talking about > different AGIs or near AGIs? Saying that a software is an AGI or not an > A

Re: [agi] AGI Taxonomy

2007-05-09 Thread Pei Wang
My feeling is that it is better to classify the AGI projects alone multiple dimensions, rather than a single one. 1. Their exact goal (or their working definition of intelligence). On this aspect, I've tried to put them into 5 groups: * structure (e.g., to build brain model) * beh

Re: [agi] AGI Taxonomy

2007-05-09 Thread Panu Horsmalahti
g a design stance rather than a capability level Parahuman AI -- designed to work alongside humans and relate Allohuman AI -- optimized for other things in ways that humans have a harder time relating to Josh On Wednesday 09 May 2007 06:14, John G. Rose wrote: > Is there a standard taxonomy of AG

Re: [agi] AGI Taxonomy

2007-05-09 Thread J. Storrs Hall, PhD.
Notice that I didn't use the word "intelligence" -- the key issue here is when we can expect the existence of AGI to make a significant difference in the world. Computers have had a big impact because they have abilities well beyond those of humans in certain limited areas. Of

[agi] Open-Source AGI

2007-05-10 Thread Mike Tintner
Just been looking at the vids. of last year's AGI conference. One thing really hit me from the panel talk - and that was: but, of course, only open-source AGI will ever work. Sorry, but all these ideas of individual systems, produced by teams of - what? - say, twenty individuals at

RE: [agi] AGI Taxonomy

2007-05-11 Thread John G. Rose
e searching the software fossil record, looking though garbage dumps and finding old hard drives with partial data images, the software's will be classified systematically. John > From: Pei Wang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > My feeling is that it is better to classify the AGI project

[agi] Open AGI Consortium

2007-06-01 Thread YKY (Yan King Yin)
, the fee being proportional to the total estimated worth of its "constituents". 4. Also, everyone who participates, must sign a non-disclosure and non-competitive agreement (NDA & NCA). There should also be some way to verify the person's identity. 5. I think this scheme c

[agi] about AGI designers

2007-06-06 Thread YKY (Yan King Yin)
There're several reasons why AGI teams are fragmented and AGI designers don't want to join a consortium: A. believe that one's own AGI design is superior B. want to ensure that the global outcome of AGI is "friendly" C. want to get bigger financial rewards (A)

Re: [agi] AGI Consortium

2007-06-08 Thread Lukasz Stafiniak
On 6/8/07, Mark Waser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "You are never going to see a painting by committee that is a great painting." And he's right. This was Sterling's indictment of Wikipedia–and to the "wisdom of crowds" fad sweeping the Web 2.0 pitch sessions of Silicon Valley–but it's also a fai

Re: [agi] AGI Consortium

2007-06-08 Thread Mark Waser
sary for it. I do, however, agree with his belief that a "kitchen sink" mentality is extremely detrimental to most open sources enterprises -- and would likewise be a problem for the AGI consortium. I think that some sort of focus and *some* limitations on what is considered on-t

Re: [agi] AGI Consortium

2007-06-08 Thread J Storrs Hall, PhD
On Friday 08 June 2007 08:21:28 am Mark Waser wrote: > Opening your project up to an unreliable parade of volunteer contributors allows for a great, lowest-common-denominator consensus product. That's fine for Wikipedia, but I wouldn't count on any grand intellectual discourse arising therein. S

Re: [agi] AGI Consortium

2007-06-08 Thread Lukasz Stafiniak
On 6/8/07, J Storrs Hall, PhD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This is basically right. There are plenty of innovative Open Source programs out there, but they are typically some academic's thesis work. Being Open Source can allow them to be turned into solid usable applications, but it can't create th

Re: [agi] AGI Consortium

2007-06-08 Thread YKY (Yan King Yin)
p projects within the consortium *exclusively*... but this will turn off many people as they don't see why the consortium will win instead of other projects... and this is the problem faced by all AGI founders trying to recruit... YKY - This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agi

Re: [agi] AGI Consortium

2007-06-08 Thread Samantha Atkins
Apache and its various offshoots? Linux itself? KDE? JBoss and its subprojects? Hibernate? None of these came from some academic thesis work and all are wildly successful. So I do not agree with the characterization of Open Source. - s On 6/8/07, J Storrs Hall, PhD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrot

Re: [agi] AGI Consortium

2007-06-08 Thread J Storrs Hall, PhD
Sure. Successful and innovative aren't the same thing -- in fact, they're often at odds. The best versions of something from the point of polish and usability generally come after lots of hard experience with its earlier versions. Bell Labs, where Unix came from originally, was very academe-lik

Re: [agi] AGI Consortium

2007-06-08 Thread Samantha Atkins
Really Open Source software projects almost never have a total open door policy on the contributions that are accepted. There is usually a small group that determines whether contributed changes are good enough and fit the overall project goals and architecture well enough. Wikipedia is one of

Re: [agi] AGI Consortium

2007-06-08 Thread Jean-Paul Van Belle
Well-said Samantha :-) On a different note: something YKY and Mark may want to read about a possible approach to running a new AGI consortium: eXtreme Research. A software methodology for applied research: eXtreme Researching vy Olivier Chirouze, David Cleary and George G. Mitchell (Software

Re: [agi] AGI Consortium

2007-06-08 Thread YKY (Yan King Yin)
ernative that's left is to restrict members to participate and develop projects within the consortium *exclusively*... but this will turn off many people as they don't see why the consortium will win instead of other projects... and this is the problem faced by all AGI founders trying to recr

Re: [agi] AGI Consortium

2007-06-09 Thread Mark Waser
>> Think: if you have contributed something, it'd be in your best interest to >> give accurate estimates rather than exaggerate or depreciate them Why wouldn't it be to my advantage to exaggerate my contributions? - This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe

Re: [agi] AGI Consortium

2007-06-09 Thread Joel Pitt
On 6/9/07, Mark Waser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ...Same goes for most software developed by this method–almost all the great open source apps are me-too knockoffs of innovative proprietary programs, and those that are original were almost always created under the watchful eye of a passionate, in

Re: [agi] AGI Consortium

2007-06-10 Thread YKY (Yan King Yin)
On 6/9/07, Mark Waser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Think: if you have contributed something, it'd be in your best interest to give accurate estimates rather than exaggerate or depreciate them Why wouldn't it be to my advantage to exaggerate my contributions? But your peers in the network wo

Re: [agi] AGI Consortium

2007-06-10 Thread YKY (Yan King Yin)
Obviously innovation comes from all walks of life, be they opensource or commercial people. But some entrepreneurs are more capable of appropriating their "inventions", eg Edison did *not* invent the light bulb, but he got famous for commercializing and patenting it. Many people simply don't hav

Re: [agi] AGI Consortium

2007-06-10 Thread Mark Waser
YKY> Think: if you have contributed something, it'd be in your best interest to give accurate estimates rather than exaggerate or depreciate them MW> Why wouldn't it be to my advantage to exaggerate my contributions? YKY> But your peers in the network won't allow that. That is an entirely diff

Re: [agi] AGI Consortium

2007-06-10 Thread YKY (Yan King Yin)
On 6/10/07, Mark Waser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: YKY> Think: if you have contributed something, it'd be in your best interest to give accurate estimates rather than exaggerate or depreciate them MW> Why wouldn't it be to my advantage to exaggerate my contributions? YKY> But your peers in th

Re: [agi] AGI Consortium

2007-06-10 Thread Mark Waser
I'm going to temporarily ignore my doubts about accurate assessments to try to get my initial question answered yet again. Why wouldn't it be to my advantage to exaggerate my contributions? - Original Message - From: YKY (Yan King Yin) To: agi@v2.listbox.c

Re: [agi] AGI Consortium

2007-06-10 Thread YKY (Yan King Yin)
On 6/11/07, Mark Waser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm going to temporarily ignore my doubts about accurate assessments to try to get my initial question answered yet again. Why wouldn't it be to my advantage to exaggerate my contributions? I'm sorry about the confusion. Let me corre

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