RE: [agi] Pattern extrapolation as a method requiring limited intelligence

2008-05-23 Thread John G. Rose
> From: Mike Tintner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > John:The synchronous melodies of the crickets strumming their legs, > changes > harmony as the wind moves warmthness. The reeds vibrate; the birds, > fearing > the snake, break their rhythmic falsetto polyphonies and flutter away to > new > pastur

RE: [agi] Pattern extrapolation as a method requiring limited intelligence

2008-05-23 Thread John G. Rose
The environmental complexities are different. NYC has been there for hundreds of years. Human brain has been in nature for hundreds of thousands of years. A manmade environment for AGI is custom made in the beginning; we don't just throw it out on the street or into the jungle. It can start off in

Re: [agi] Pattern extrapolation as a method requiring limited intelligence

2008-05-22 Thread Mike Tintner
John:The synchronous melodies of the crickets strumming their legs, changes harmony as the wind moves warmthness. The reeds vibrate; the birds, fearing the snake, break their rhythmic falsetto polyphonies and flutter away to new pastures. But with humans, pattern-breaking and the seeking of nove

RE: [agi] Pattern extrapolation as a method requiring limited intelligence

2008-05-22 Thread Matt Mahoney
> From: Mike Tintner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > It's actually obvious if you care to listen, that music involves a > combination of pattern fitting/extrapolation and pattern BREAKING. The > whole > point of a pop song is that it involves a creative idea - a *twist* on > existing patterns. That'

RE: [agi] Pattern extrapolation as a method requiring limited intelligence

2008-05-22 Thread John G. Rose
> From: Mike Tintner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > It's actually obvious if you care to listen, that music involves a > combination of pattern fitting/extrapolation and pattern BREAKING. The > whole > point of a pop song is that it involves a creative idea - a *twist* on > existing patterns. That'

RE: [agi] Pattern extrapolation as a method requiring limited intelligence

2008-05-22 Thread Derek Zahn
Vladimir Nesov:> I think sterile texture of "artificial" environments hides the> richness of their structure from our intuition, since we already have> it imprinted by experience with the real world. Anything less than> capable of dealing with the real world won't understand "cleaned up"> enviro

RE: [agi] Pattern extrapolation as a method requiring limited intelligence

2008-05-22 Thread John G. Rose
x.com Subject: RE: [agi] Pattern extrapolation as a method requiring limited intelligence John Rose writes: > So I feel that much of our brain mass is there due to the natural richness > of nature, and there may be quite a bit of overkill compared to what would > be needed in softwar

Re: [agi] Pattern extrapolation as a method requiring limited intelligence

2008-05-22 Thread Vladimir Nesov
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 1:26 AM, Derek Zahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Rose writes: > >> So I feel that much of our brain mass is there due to the natural richness >> of nature, and there may be quite a bit of overkill compared to what would >> be needed in software AGI. > > Are we satisfied

RE: [agi] Pattern extrapolation as a method requiring limited intelligence

2008-05-22 Thread Derek Zahn
John Rose writes:> So I feel that much of our brain mass is there due to the natural richness> of nature, and there may be quite a bit of overkill compared to what would> be needed in software AGI. Are we satisfied building AGIs that cannot cope with the actual world because it is too rich? Pe

Re: [agi] Pattern extrapolation as a method requiring limited intelligence

2008-05-22 Thread Mike Tintner
John G: "human musical pattern extrapolation fidelity is a sort of an averaging of the human minds full capability of an astonishingly robust pattern recognizing ability...I feel that our modern audial pattern recognition ability has been extremely dumbed down" The arts as seen by a mathemati

RE: [agi] Pattern extrapolation as a method requiring limited intelligence

2008-05-22 Thread John G. Rose
> From: Joseph Gentle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > There are two interesting points here. > > The first is that (in my opinion) pattern matching must come first. I > agree that understanding the patterns (the /why/) is important; but > seeing (even unjustified) patterns is crucial. The benchm

Re: [agi] Pattern extrapolation as a method requiring limited intelligence

2008-05-22 Thread Steve Richfield
Joseph, On 5/20/08, Joseph Gentle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 1:37 PM, Steve Richfield > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Now, decades later, come the present discussions about patterns, > apparently > > advanced along with the same lines of "thought" that was behind that

Re: [agi] Pattern extrapolation as a method requiring limited intelligence

2008-05-20 Thread Joseph Gentle
On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 1:37 PM, Steve Richfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now, decades later, come the present discussions about patterns, apparently > advanced along with the same lines of "thought" that was behind that IQ test > so many years ago. Pattern recognition without underlying suppor

RE: [agi] Pattern extrapolation as a method requiring limited intelligence

2008-05-17 Thread John G. Rose
ECTED] Sent: Saturday, May 17, 2008 12:58 PM To: agi@v2.listbox.com Subject: Re: [agi] Pattern extrapolation as a method requiring limited intelligence John, Background Note: My first full-time job was doing CAD for the first Boeing 737s - the first planes to be substantially designed by CAD.

Re: [agi] Pattern extrapolation as a method requiring limited intelligence

2008-05-17 Thread Steve Richfield
John, Background Note: My first full-time job was doing CAD for the first Boeing 737s - the first planes to be substantially designed by CAD. There was little CAD software back then, so we had to create it ourselves. Starting from wind tunnel data, we had to figure out how to place supports into w

RE: [agi] Pattern extrapolation as a method requiring limited intelligence

2008-05-16 Thread John G. Rose
It's not just - oh now I recognize a pattern and can predict the next few items. It's oh I see and understand numerous patterns all intermeshed and have a rich knowledge base of raw and processed pattern data...and my operators are patterns, etc.. Most stuff in the universe is patterns, but all i