Re: [agi] Understanding a sick puppy

2008-05-18 Thread Russell Wallace
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 4:10 PM, Steve Richfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wouldn't it be better to provide a super-wiki that could be selected to ONLY display the professional content if that was what was wanted? How about a cookie on everyone's computer that could select out porn,

Re: [agi] Understanding a sick puppy

2008-05-16 Thread Steve Richfield
Mike, On 5/15/08, Mike Tintner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve/MT: My off-the-cuff thought here is that a central database, organised on some open source basis getting medical professionals continually to contribute and update, which would enable people to immediately get a run-down of

Re: [agi] Understanding a sick puppy

2008-05-16 Thread Mike Tintner
Steve, Briefly, my thought re a super-medi-wiki is that it only presents theories/contenders rather than definitive answers - and there must be some ratings/voting system.Yes that favours conservative thinking which may become out-of-date. But users will still look for outsider ideas, and it

Re: [agi] Understanding a sick puppy

2008-05-15 Thread Steve Richfield
Mike, On 5/14/08, Mike Tintner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve, Like most people here I'm interested in general intelligence. You seem to be talking mainly about specific domain intelligence - medical diagnosis - not say, a computer or agent that will encompass many domains. All domains

Re: [agi] Understanding a sick puppy

2008-05-15 Thread Mike Tintner
Steve/MT: My off-the-cuff thought here is that a central database, organised on some open source basis getting medical professionals continually to contribute and update, which would enable people to immediately get a run-down of the major possible causes (and indeed minor possible

Re: [agi] Understanding a sick puppy

2008-05-15 Thread Stan Nilsen
There is something called Evidence Based Medicine that is in the works. In the book Super Crunchers Ian Ayres devotes a chapter(4) to such systems and the reaction of doctors. Diagnostics by examination of huge databases is evidently pretty far along. The book points out that it is the

Re: [agi] Understanding a sick puppy

2008-05-15 Thread Mike Tintner
Thanks. That's not surprising. The second thought that occurs is that actually an intelligent patient's wiki approach *might* be a good idea - something that links to the mushrooming patients' forums - and might end up competing with the pros as wikip. competes with Encylo. Britannica. Patients

Re: [agi] Understanding a sick puppy

2008-05-14 Thread Mike Tintner
Steve, This is more or less where I came into this group. You've picked a, if not the, classic AGI problem. The problem that distinguishes it from narrow AI. Problematic, no right answer. And every option could often be wrong. I tried to open a similar problem for discussion way back - how do

Re: [agi] Understanding a sick puppy

2008-05-14 Thread Steve Richfield
Mike, On 5/14/08, Mike Tintner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is more or less where I came into this group. You've picked a, if not the, classic AGI problem. The problem that distinguishes it from narrow AI. Problematic, no right answer. And every option could often be wrong. I tried to open

Re: [agi] Understanding a sick puppy

2008-05-14 Thread Mike Tintner
Steve, Like most people here I'm interested in general intelligence. You seem to be talking mainly about specific domain intelligence - medical diagnosis - not say, a computer or agent that will encompass many domains. My off-the-cuff thought here is that a central database, organised on some