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

2008-12-17 Thread Ben Goertzel
You have interpreted my below post in an overly defensive manner. Sorry ... I'm dealing with some other frustrating things this morning so maybe the frustratedness unintentionally rubbed off on this email exchange ... (Are you saying Novamente is not scaleable to human level without

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

2008-12-17 Thread Ben Goertzel
Well, this whole chapter of the wikibook deals with these issues... http://www.opencog.org/wiki/OpenCogPrime:WikiBook#Probabilistic_Evolutionary_Learning most of that chapter is about various strategies for using background knowledge to guide probabilistic evolutionary learning As you note From

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

2008-12-17 Thread Ben Goertzel
Every thing is a constraint Everything is not much of a constraint ;-) On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Lukasz Stafiniak lukst...@gmail.comwrote: Talking on a very abstract level, MOSES could be ultimately developed so that it explores what you could call constraint relaxation strategies;

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

2008-12-17 Thread Lukasz Stafiniak
Talking on a very abstract level, MOSES could be ultimately developed so that it explores what you could call constraint relaxation strategies; combo trees are built such that they meet the constraints optimally with more-or-less random exploration of different trade-offs. Pure MOSES (current)

[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