Re: [agi] Wozniak's defn of intelligence

2008-02-11 Thread Matt Mahoney
--- Richard Loosemore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bob Mottram wrote: > > On 11/02/2008, Richard Loosemore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> But now, by contrast, if you are assuming (as Matt does, I believe) that > >> somehow a cluster of sub-intelligent specialists across the net will > >> gradua

Re: [agi] Wozniak's defn of intelligence

2008-02-11 Thread Bob Mottram
On 11/02/2008, J Storrs Hall, PhD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think that state of the art is just now getting to dynamically-stable-only > biped walkers. I've seen a couple of articles in the past year, but it > certainly isn't widespread, and it remains to be seen how real. Famous robots such

Re: [agi] Wozniak's defn of intelligence

2008-02-11 Thread Richard Loosemore
Bob Mottram wrote: On 11/02/2008, Richard Loosemore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: But now, by contrast, if you are assuming (as Matt does, I believe) that somehow a cluster of sub-intelligent specialists across the net will gradually increase in intelligence until their sum total amounts to a full

Re: [agi] Wozniak's defn of intelligence

2008-02-11 Thread Bob Mottram
On 11/02/2008, Richard Loosemore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As far as I can tell, any scenario that anyone has imagined for a > sub-human-intelligence robot that would be useful enough to sell in the > market place contains limitations that will doom it in the same way. > That last 2% will always

Re: [agi] Wozniak's defn of intelligence

2008-02-11 Thread J Storrs Hall, PhD
It's worth noting in this connection that once you get up to the level of mammals, everything is very high compliance, low stiffness, mostly serial joint architecture (no natural Stewart platforms, although you can of course grab something with two hands if need be) typically with significant en

Re: [agi] Wozniak's defn of intelligence

2008-02-11 Thread Bob Mottram
On 11/02/2008, Samantha Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can see this for managing the download/installation of capabilities > with periodic feedback of experience. It is less likely that > centralized systems would effectively teleoperate large numbers of > remote robots. The bandwidth an

Re: [agi] Wozniak's defn of intelligence

2008-02-11 Thread Samantha Atkins
Bob Mottram wrote: On 10/02/2008, Matt Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It seems we have different ideas about what AGI is. It is not a product that you can make and sell. It is a service that will evolve from the desire to automate human labor, currently valued at $66 trillion per year.

Re: [agi] Wozniak's defn of intelligence

2008-02-11 Thread Stephen Reed
Richard Loosemore wrote: ...In fact, the situation is superfically similar to Doug Lenat's approach: he decided on a plan, then hired people to carry out the specific plan, with only (I am guessing... Stephen?) 10% research, while the other 90% was about on

Re: [agi] Wozniak's defn of intelligence

2008-02-11 Thread Richard Loosemore
J Storrs Hall, PhD wrote: Hmmm. I'd suspect you'd spend all your time and effort organizing the people. Orgs can grow that fast if they're grocery stores or something else the new hires already pretty much understand, but I don't see that happening smoothly in a pure research setting. I would

Re: [agi] Wozniak's defn of intelligence

2008-02-10 Thread Matt Mahoney
--- Mike Tintner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matt: I realize that a > full (Turing test) model can only be learned by having a full range of human > experiences in a human body. > > Pray expand. I thought v. few here think that. Your definition seems to > imply AGI must inevitably be embodied.

Re: [agi] Wozniak's defn of intelligence

2008-02-10 Thread Bob Mottram
On 10/02/2008, Matt Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It seems we have different ideas about what AGI is. It is not a product that > you can make and sell. It is a service that will evolve from the desire to > automate human labor, currently valued at $66 trillion per year. Yes. I think the

Re: [agi] Wozniak's defn of intelligence

2008-02-10 Thread Mike Tintner
Matt: I realize that a full (Turing test) model can only be learned by having a full range of human experiences in a human body. Pray expand. I thought v. few here think that. Your definition seems to imply AGI must inevitably be embodied. It also implies an evolutionary model of embodied AGI

Re: [agi] Wozniak's defn of intelligence

2008-02-10 Thread Samantha Atkins
Personally I would rather shoot for a world where the ever present nano-swarm saw that I wanted a cup of good coffee and effectively created one out of thin air on the spot, cup and all. Assuming I still took pleasure in such archaic practices and ways of changing my internal state of course.

Re: [agi] Wozniak's defn of intelligence

2008-02-10 Thread Bob Mottram
For the immediate future I think we are going to be seeing robots which are either directly programmed to perform tasks (expert systems on wheels) or which are taught by direct human supervision. In the human supervision scenario the robot is "walked through" a series of steps which it has to perf

Re: [agi] Wozniak's defn of intelligence

2008-02-10 Thread Matt Mahoney
It seems we have different ideas about what AGI is. It is not a product that you can make and sell. It is a service that will evolve from the desire to automate human labor, currently valued at $66 trillion per year. I outlined a design in http://www.mattmahoney.net/agi.html It consists of lots

Re: [agi] Wozniak's defn of intelligence

2008-02-10 Thread J Storrs Hall, PhD
Hmmm. I'd suspect you'd spend all your time and effort organizing the people. Orgs can grow that fast if they're grocery stores or something else the new hires already pretty much understand, but I don't see that happening smoothly in a pure research setting. I'd claim to be able to do it in 10

Re: [agi] Wozniak's defn of intelligence

2008-02-10 Thread Richard Loosemore
Charles D Hixson wrote: Richard Loosemore wrote: J Storrs Hall, PhD wrote: On Friday 08 February 2008 10:16:43 am, Richard Loosemore wrote: J Storrs Hall, PhD wrote: Any system builders here care to give a guess as to how long it will be before a robot, with your system as its controller, c

Re: [agi] Wozniak's defn of intelligence

2008-02-09 Thread Charles D Hixson
Richard Loosemore wrote: J Storrs Hall, PhD wrote: On Friday 08 February 2008 10:16:43 am, Richard Loosemore wrote: J Storrs Hall, PhD wrote: Any system builders here care to give a guess as to how long it will be before a robot, with your system as its controller, can walk into the average

Re: [agi] Wozniak's defn of intelligence

2008-02-08 Thread Bob Mottram
On 08/02/2008, J Storrs Hall, PhD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any system builders here care to give a guess as to how long it will be before > a robot, with your system as its controller, can walk into the average > suburban home, find the kitchen, make coffee, and serve it? Robots which can nav

Re: [agi] Wozniak's defn of intelligence

2008-02-08 Thread Matt Mahoney
--- "J Storrs Hall, PhD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [ http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/biz/5524028.html ] ... > Any system builders here care to give a guess as to how long it will be > before > a robot, with your system as its controller, can walk into the average > suburban home,

Re: [agi] Wozniak's defn of intelligence

2008-02-08 Thread Richard Loosemore
J Storrs Hall, PhD wrote: On Friday 08 February 2008 10:16:43 am, Richard Loosemore wrote: J Storrs Hall, PhD wrote: Any system builders here care to give a guess as to how long it will be before a robot, with your system as its controller, can walk into the average suburban home, find the ki

Re: [agi] Wozniak's defn of intelligence

2008-02-08 Thread J Storrs Hall, PhD
On Friday 08 February 2008 10:16:43 am, Richard Loosemore wrote: > J Storrs Hall, PhD wrote: > > Any system builders here care to give a guess as to how long it will be before > > a robot, with your system as its controller, can walk into the average > > suburban home, find the kitchen, make cof

Re: [agi] Wozniak's defn of intelligence

2008-02-08 Thread Richard Loosemore
J Storrs Hall, PhD wrote: [ http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/biz/5524028.html ] Steve Wozniak has given up on artificial intelligence. "What is intelligence?" Apple's co-founder asked an audience of about 550 Thursday at the Houston area's first Up Experience conference in Stafford.

[agi] Wozniak's defn of intelligence

2008-02-08 Thread J Storrs Hall, PhD
[ http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/biz/5524028.html ] Steve Wozniak has given up on artificial intelligence. "What is intelligence?" Apple's co-founder asked an audience of about 550 Thursday at the Houston area's first Up Experience conference in Stafford. His answer? A robot that co