Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-04-18 Thread Stephen Reed
identified constructions and I'll create a test suite from these. -Steve - Original Message From: James Ratcliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 2:59:35 PM Subject: Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda Do you have any of this on the Net or usable

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-04-18 Thread Benjamin Goertzel
: Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda Do you have any of this on the Net or usable form? Or can post some good screens of it? James Ratcliff Stephen Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For my own AI research I am using Java. Apart from its satisfactory speed, I like the NetBeans IDE, and most

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-04-18 Thread Stephen Reed
- Original Message From: Benjamin Goertzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 2:33:57 PM Subject: Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda Stephen -- What do you know about Cyc's licensing terms? Let's say that Novamente reads Cyc and then learns some

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-04-18 Thread Benjamin Goertzel
: James Ratcliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 2:59:35 PM Subject: Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda Do you have any of this on the Net or usable form? Or can post some good screens of it? James Ratcliff Stephen Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-04-10 Thread Eric Baum
I'd commend to the LISP hackers' attention the compiler Stalin by Jeff Syskind, who last I knew was at Purdue. I'm uncertain the extent to which the compiler is available, but I imagine if you look around (for example find Syskind's home page) you will find papers or or pointers. My erstwhile

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-04-10 Thread BillK
On 4/10/07, Eric Baum wrote: I'd commend to the LISP hackers' attention the compiler Stalin by Jeff Syskind, who last I knew was at Purdue. I'm uncertain the extent to which the compiler is available, but I imagine if you look around (for example find Syskind's home page) you will find papers or

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-04-10 Thread Benjamin Goertzel
The Stalin Scheme compiler can be obtained here: http://cobweb.ecn.purdue.edu/~qobi/software.html It is a batch-mode-only compiler, meaning it lacks the interactive aspect that makes languages like LISP and Ruby so nice to use. The optimizations inside the Stalin compiler are quite advanced

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-04-10 Thread Benjamin Goertzel
Philip Samantha, you need to provide me with references if you want Philip me to believe this. No LISP compiler has ever been optimized Philip to any serious degree AFAIK. The nature of the language makes Philip it difficult to write efficient code in the first place. And Philip I suspect

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-04-10 Thread Philip Goetz
On 4/10/07, Benjamin Goertzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mathematical code is exactly what's MOST EASILY OPTIMIZABLE using techniques as exist in the Stalin Scheme compiler, or better yet in the Java supercompiler. Each numeric operation is of course no faster after optimized or super

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-04-10 Thread Benjamin Goertzel
And these advanced compilation techniques are easier to apply to LISP or Refal or Haskell than to Java, and easier to apply to Java than to C++ Why is that? well... C++ has pointers, which basically rule out sophisticated compilation techniques like partial evaluation and

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-04-09 Thread Philip Goetz
On 3/20/07, David Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Java has static typing and no introspection. It has no way of making programs of itself and then executing them. Multiple running programs require very expensive multi-threading and the huge mutex overhead for synchronization. Java has more

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-04-09 Thread Philip Goetz
On 3/23/07, Samantha Atknis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 8,Fast where most of the processing is done. In the language or in things written in the language or both? Lisp has been interpreted and compiled simultaneously and nearly seamlessly for 20 years and has efficiency approaching compiled C

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-04-09 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 02:02:33PM -0400, Philip Goetz wrote: Samantha, you need to provide me with references if you want me to believe this. No LISP compiler has ever been optimized to any serious I've heard different. Google seems to agree somewhat:

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-04-09 Thread Philip Goetz
On 3/19/07, rooftop8000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've been thinking for a bit about how a big collaboration AI project could work. I browsed the archives and i see you guys have similar ideas I'd love to see someone build a system that is capable of adding any kind of AI algorithm/idea

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-04-09 Thread Philip Goetz
Some more notes on cognitive infrastructures: IKAROS (http://www.lucs.lu.se/IKAROS/index.html) IKAROS components correspond to brain areas, which are linked to each other through arrays of real variables that represent neurons. IKAROS is focused on representing the human brain accurately at a

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-04-09 Thread Richard Loosemore
Philip Goetz wrote: Some more notes on cognitive infrastructures: IKAROS (http://www.lucs.lu.se/IKAROS/index.html) IKAROS components correspond to brain areas, which are linked to each other through arrays of real variables that represent neurons. IKAROS is focused on representing the human

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-04-09 Thread Jeff Rose
Philip Goetz wrote: On 3/23/07, Samantha Atknis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 8,Fast where most of the processing is done. In the language or in things written in the language or both? Lisp has been interpreted and compiled simultaneously and nearly seamlessly for 20 years and has efficiency

Re: Environments and Languages for AGI [WAS Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda]

2007-03-26 Thread David Clark
- Original Message - From: Richard Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2007 12:43 PM Subject: Re: Environments and Languages for AGI [WAS Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda] when someone gets a clue about what they are trying to build

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-26 Thread Stephen Reed
that I can teach the system in English how to do things and so not worry about the programming smile -Steve - Original Message From: Ben Goertzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2007 10:03:44 AM Subject: Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda Allegro

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-25 Thread Russell Wallace
On 3/25/07, YKY (Yan King Yin) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some form of unifying framework, whatever that is, is of course desirable. But the problem is how to get people to *agree* to work within your framework (or any particular one). Consider the problem of getting everyone to agree to use

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-25 Thread Chuck Esterbrook
On 3/24/07, YKY (Yan King Yin) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/25/07, rooftop8000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... I think Jey's comment is reasonable. It seems impractical to start a collaborative AI project without having an AGI design which specifies what modules are there and how they

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-25 Thread A. T. Murray
Ben Goertzel wrote: My PhD is in math and I used to be a math prof, but I have found no opportunity yet to use really advanced math in AI My B.A. is in Latin and Greek and I used to be a teacher of Latin and German. In Mentifex AI, I use very little math and tons of linguistics. A brief

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-25 Thread Bob Mottram
I've seen heated arguments over computer languages on AI-related forums many times before, so I've no intention of pimping any particular language specifically for AGI development. Actually I think the state of the art in software creation at the moment is still rather crummy, and not much

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-25 Thread rooftop8000
--- YKY (Yan King Yin) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/25/07, rooftop8000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The richer your set of algorithms and representations, the more likely the correct ones will emerge/pop out as you put it. I don't really like the idea of hoping for extra functionality to

Re: Environments and Languages for AGI [WAS Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda]

2007-03-25 Thread rooftop8000
--- Chuck Esterbrook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/24/07, rooftop8000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: one chooses a decent option and gets on with it. -- Ben That's exactly the problem.. everyone just builds their own ideas and doesn't consider how their ideas and code could

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-25 Thread rooftop8000
--- Chuck Esterbrook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/24/07, YKY (Yan King Yin) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/25/07, rooftop8000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... I think Jey's comment is reasonable. It seems impractical to start a collaborative AI project without having an AGI design

RE: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-25 Thread Peter Voss
project...) -Original Message- From: Chuck Esterbrook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2007 12:37 AM To: agi@v2.listbox.com Subject: Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda On 3/24/07, YKY (Yan King Yin) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/25/07, rooftop8000 [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-25 Thread Chuck Esterbrook
On 3/25/07, Bob Mottram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've seen heated arguments over computer languages on AI-related forums many times before, so I've no intention of pimping any particular language specifically for AGI development. Actually I think the state of the art in software creation at the

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-25 Thread Chuck Esterbrook
On 3/25/07, rooftop8000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Chuck Esterbrook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/24/07, YKY (Yan King Yin) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/25/07, rooftop8000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... I think Jey's comment is reasonable. It seems impractical to start a

Re: Environments and Languages for AGI [WAS Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda]

2007-03-25 Thread David Clark
- Original Message - From: Richard Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2007 1:46 PM Subject: Environments and Languages for AGI [WAS Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda] As for all the other talk on this list, recently, about programming

Re: Environments and Languages for AGI [WAS Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda]

2007-03-25 Thread Richard Loosemore
David Clark wrote: - Original Message - From: Richard Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2007 1:46 PM Subject: Environments and Languages for AGI [WAS Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda] As for all the other talk on this list, recently

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-25 Thread rooftop8000
--- Chuck Esterbrook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/25/07, rooftop8000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Chuck Esterbrook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/24/07, YKY (Yan King Yin) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/25/07, rooftop8000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... I think Jey's comment

RE: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-24 Thread John Rose
- Original Message - From: John Rose [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 10:26 PM Subject: RE: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda Enhancements to existing computer languages or new computer languages that could possibly grease the wheels for AGI development

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-24 Thread Russell Wallace
On 3/24/07, John Rose [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you could imagine a really, really super advanced language created by super-intelligent giant brained aliens (seriously) or created by their alien supercomputer, what would that language be like? Would it be a mishmash of lowest common

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-24 Thread Sampo Etelavuori
On 3/23/07, David Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - *From:* Shane Legg [EMAIL PROTECTED] *To:* agi@v2.listbox.com *Sent:* Friday, March 23, 2007 10:34 AM *Subject:* Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda On 3/23/07, David Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-24 Thread rooftop8000
--- David Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: rooftop8000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 1:48 PM Subject: Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda Suppose there was an AGI framework that everyone could add

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-24 Thread Shane Legg
On 3/23/07, David Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Both the code and algorythmn must be good for any computer system to work and neither is easy. The bond formula was published for many years but this particular company certainly didn't have a copy of it inside a program they could use. The

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-24 Thread Ben Goertzel
If we're talking language for AGI _content_ (as opposed to framework for which Ben Goertzel has made a fair case for even C++), then more like removal of features. Because for AGI content, it's not what you can do in principle, it's what you can be _casual_ with. Correct, this is an

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-24 Thread Ben Goertzel
Is the research on AI full of Math because there are many Math professors that publish in the field or is the problem really Math related? Many PhDs in computer science are Math oriented exactly because the professors that deem their work worth a PhD are either

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-24 Thread David Clark
or reasonable? -- David Clark - Original Message - From: Samantha Atknis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 11:29 PM Subject: Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda David Clark wrote: I appreciate the amount of effort you made in replying to my email

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-24 Thread David Clark
- Original Message - From: Sampo Etelavuori To: agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2007 3:13 AM Subject: Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda Well, do you agree that making predictions is one central aspect of intelligence? The brain does it all the time

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-24 Thread David Clark
- Original Message - From: rooftop8000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2007 4:26 AM Subject: Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda -so it will need to have different parts that can be developed (and run?) independently. An AGI would be huge

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-24 Thread David Clark
. Allocating memory is just not the programmers business in my language. -- David Clark - Original Message - From: Tony Lofthouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2007 7:54 AM Subject: RE: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda David Clarke wrote: I have 18 points

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-24 Thread Ben Goertzel
The fact that C, C++ and I would presume C# has pointers, precludes any of these from my list up front. There can be no boundary checks at either compile or execution time so this feature alone is incompatible with a higher level language IMO. FYI, C# has no pointers generically, but you

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-24 Thread David Clark
and so I have added this to my language. Sorry, LISP or any kind of LISP just won't do. -- David Clark - Original Message - From: Ben Goertzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2007 8:03 AM Subject: Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda Allegro LISP

RE: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-24 Thread John Rose
experienced, having little, so my opinions are biased from computer telephony software. John From: Russell Wallace [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2007 2:06 AM To: agi@v2.listbox.com Subject: Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda On 3/24/07, John Rose [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-24 Thread YKY (Yan King Yin)
On 3/23/07, rooftop8000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Suppose there was an AGI framework that everyone could add their ideas to.. What properties should it have? I listed some points below. What would it take for you to use the framework? You can add points if you like. On 3/24/07, Jey

RE: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-24 Thread Tony Lofthouse
. In practice this is rarely used and needs to be explicitly declared. -- David Clark - Original Message - From: Tony Lofthouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2007 7:54 AM Subject: RE: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda David Clarke wrote: I have

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-24 Thread rooftop8000
--- YKY (Yan King Yin) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/23/07, rooftop8000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Suppose there was an AGI framework that everyone could add their ideas to.. What properties should it have? I listed some points below. What would it take for you to use the

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-24 Thread David Clark
.listbox.com Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2007 9:32 AM Subject: Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda For that particular example, yes I believe you can. You do so by creating a class (or struct; your preference) and giving it an implicit cast to long. Can you use the resultant LONG anywhere

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-24 Thread David Clark
- Original Message - From: Tony Lofthouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2007 10:19 AM Subject: RE: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda ThatÂ’s a neat trick. So on a four processor box you can take control of the processors and the OS and run your

Environments and Languages for AGI [WAS Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda]

2007-03-24 Thread Richard Loosemore
Ben Goertzel wrote: Mark Waser wrote: IMO, creating an AGI isn't really a programming problem. The hard part is knowing exactly what to program. Which is why it turns into a programming problem . . . . I started out as a biochemist studying enzyme kinetics. The only reasonable way

Re: Environments and Languages for AGI [WAS Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda]

2007-03-24 Thread Ben Goertzel
As for all the other talk on this list, recently, about programming languages and the need for math, etc., I find myself amused by the irrelevance of most of it: when someone gets a clue about what they are trying to build, and why, the question of what language (or environment) they

RE: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-24 Thread John Rose
efficiently, yes difficult. Having mathematicians build tools into computer languages would definitely make it a lot easier. John -Original Message- From: Ben Goertzel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2007 6:10 AM To: agi@v2.listbox.com Subject: Re: [agi] My proposal

Re: Environments and Languages for AGI [WAS Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda]

2007-03-24 Thread rooftop8000
one chooses a decent option and gets on with it. -- Ben That's exactly the problem.. everyone just builds their own ideas and doesn't consider how their ideas and code could (later) be used by other people

Re: Environments and Languages for AGI [WAS Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda]

2007-03-24 Thread Chuck Esterbrook
On 3/24/07, rooftop8000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: one chooses a decent option and gets on with it. -- Ben That's exactly the problem.. everyone just builds their own ideas and doesn't consider how their ideas and code could (later) be used by other people If Novamente reaches human like,

Re: Environments and Languages for AGI [WAS Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda]

2007-03-24 Thread Richard Loosemore
Ben Goertzel wrote: Richard Loosemore wrote: As for all the other talk on this list, recently, about programming languages and the need for math, etc., I find myself amused by the irrelevance of most of it: when someone gets a clue about what they are trying to build, and why, the question

Re: Environments and Languages for AGI [WAS Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda]

2007-03-24 Thread Ben Goertzel
Richard Loosemore wrote: Ben Goertzel wrote: Richard Loosemore wrote: As for all the other talk on this list, recently, about programming languages and the need for math, etc., I find myself amused by the irrelevance of most of it: when someone gets a clue about what they are trying to

Re: Environments and Languages for AGI [WAS Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda]

2007-03-24 Thread Ben Goertzel
rooftop8000 wrote: one chooses a decent option and gets on with it. -- Ben That's exactly the problem.. everyone just builds their own ideas and doesn't consider how their ideas and code could (later) be used by other people I'm not at all sure something like AGI is well-suited to

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-24 Thread YKY (Yan King Yin)
On 3/25/07, rooftop8000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The richer your set of algorithms and representations, the more likely the correct ones will emerge/pop out as you put it. I don't really like the idea of hoping for extra functionality to emerge. This particular version of emergence does not

RE: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-23 Thread John Rose
PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 12:15 AM To: agi@v2.listbox.com Subject: Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda Sun has a fairly new language called Fortress that is targeted to scientists and engineers, and it has stronger notions of built-in math than your typical OO language. I don't know

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-23 Thread David Clark
- Original Message - From: John Rose [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 10:26 PM Subject: RE: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda Enhancements to existing computer languages or new computer languages that could possibly grease the wheels for AGI

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-23 Thread David Clark
- Original Message - From: Kevin Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 11:11 PM Subject: Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda This thread has been going on for what, weeks? The argument has been going on since the beginning of time

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-23 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 08:36:14AM -0700, David Clark wrote: I have created a system that makes Self modifying code and I have a design that will make use of self modifying code. This is exactly why I created this language in the first place. Interesting. Why did you feel the need to improve

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-23 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 08:23:51AM -0700, David Clark wrote: I have a Math minor from University but in 32 years of computer work, I haven't used more than grade 12 Math in any computer project yet. I have produced thousands of programs for at least 100 clients including creating a

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-23 Thread Shane Legg
On 3/23/07, David Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Math minor from University but in 32 years of computer work, I haven't used more than grade 12 Math in any computer project yet. ... I created a bond comparison program for a major wealth investment firm that used a pretty fancy

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-23 Thread Mark Waser
Legg To: agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 1:34 PM Subject: **SPAM** Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda On 3/23/07, David Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Math minor from University but in 32 years of computer work, I haven't used more than grade 12 Math

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-23 Thread Ben Goertzel
Mark Waser wrote: IMO, creating an AGI isn't really a programming problem. The hard part is knowing exactly what to program. Which is why it turns into a programming problem . . . . I started out as a biochemist studying enzyme kinetics. The only reasonable way to get a reasonable

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-23 Thread Mark Waser
: Friday, March 23, 2007 2:56 PM Subject: Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda Mark Waser wrote: IMO, creating an AGI isn't really a programming problem. The hard part is knowing exactly what to program. Which is why it turns into a programming problem . . . . I started out as a biochemist

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-23 Thread David Clark
- Original Message - From: Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 10:26 AM Subject: Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda A CPU executes instructions including assignment, conditionals and simple looping. How can a language not have

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-23 Thread David Clark
. - Original Message - From: Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 9:58 AM Subject: Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda Interesting. Why did you feel the need to improve on SEXPRs? What does it improve on the CL Lisp model? 1. I don't want or need a C

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-23 Thread DEREK ZAHN
David Clark writes: I looked up SEXPR and the following is what I got. I think he just was using shorthand for s expression. Looking over the web page you linked to, it seems like your approach is basically that building an AGI (at least an AGI of the type you are pursuing) is at its heart

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-23 Thread David Clark
- Original Message - From: rooftop8000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 1:48 PM Subject: Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda Suppose there was an AGI framework that everyone could add their ideas to.. What properties should it have? I listed

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-23 Thread Jey Kottalam
On 3/23/07, rooftop8000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Suppose there was an AGI framework that everyone could add their ideas to.. What properties should it have? I listed some points below. What would it take for you to use the framework? You can add points if you like. I don't understand. Is

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-23 Thread Samantha Atknis
David Clark wrote: My AGI and my language was never designed to have millions and billions of asynchronous, concurrent units. My design certainly has the ability for run a few thousand events simultaneously and pass messages efficiently between them but this is not what you are asking. My

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-23 Thread David Clark
- Original Message - From: Shane Legg To: agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 10:34 AM Subject: Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda On 3/23/07, David Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Math minor from University but in 32 years of computer work, I

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-23 Thread Samantha Atknis
Ben Goertzel wrote: Regarding languages, I personally am a big fan of both Ruby and Haskell. But, for Novamente we use C++ for reasons of scalability. I am curious as to how C++ helps scalability. What sorts of scalability? Along what dimensions? There are ways that C++ does not scale

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-23 Thread David Clark
: Samantha Atknis To: agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 3:37 PM Subject: Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda I think you are pretty much stark raving here. :-) Linux is not cryptic compared to Windoze in the least. I have worked with Window many, many times. When I have

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-23 Thread Ben Goertzel
David Clark wrote: I appreciate the amount of effort you made in replying to my email. Most of your questions would be answered if you read the documentation on my site. The last time I looked, LISP had no built-in database. Allegro Lisp has a very nice (easy to use, scalable, damn fast)

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-23 Thread Samantha Atknis
David Clark wrote: I appreciate the amount of effort you made in replying to my email. Most of your questions would be answered if you read the documentation on my site. The last time I looked, LISP had no built-in database. Has this changed recently? Does it still use that idiotic prefix

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-22 Thread Charles D Hixson
Chuck Esterbrook wrote: On 3/20/07, Charles D Hixson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: rooftop8000 wrote: ... I think we should somehow allow people to use all the program languages they want. That somehow is the big problem. Most approaches to dealing with it are...lamentable. ... You can use

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-22 Thread Chuck Esterbrook
On 3/22/07, Charles D Hixson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately, MS is claiming undefined things as being proprietary. As such, I intend to stay totally clear of implementations of it's protocols. Including mono. I am considering jvm, however, as Sun has now freed the java license (and

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-22 Thread Charles D Hixson
Chuck Esterbrook wrote: On 3/22/07, Charles D Hixson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately, MS is claiming undefined things as being proprietary. As such, I intend to stay totally clear of implementations of it's protocols. Including mono. I am considering jvm, however, as Sun has now freed

RE: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-22 Thread John Rose
and network resource limitations John -Original Message- From: David Clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 10:16 AM To: agi@v2.listbox.com Subject: Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda I totally agree that maximum speed is required for AGI. I agree

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-22 Thread Kevin Peterson
On 3/22/07, John Rose [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Enhancements to existing computer languages or new computer languages that could possibly grease the wheels for AGI development would be aligning the language more closely to mathematics. Many of the computer languages are [...] This would be

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-22 Thread Chuck Esterbrook
, 2007 10:16 AM To: agi@v2.listbox.com Subject: Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda I totally agree that maximum speed is required for AGI. I agree with Ben that flexabilty is also needed (he might have said liked, not needed) like seen in Ruby. My language IDE has a small simple editor built

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-21 Thread Shane Legg
On 3/21/07, Chuck Esterbrook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sometimes the slowness of a program is not contained in a small portion of a program. Sure. For us however this isn't the case. Cobra looks nice, very clean to read, even more so than Python. However the fact that it's in beta and .NET

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-21 Thread Chuck Esterbrook
On 3/21/07, Shane Legg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/21/07, Chuck Esterbrook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sometimes the slowness of a program is not contained in a small portion of a program. Sure. For us however this isn't the case. Cobra looks nice, very clean to read, even more so than

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-21 Thread rooftop8000
--- YKY (Yan King Yin) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/20/07, rooftop8000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've been thinking for a bit about how a big collaboration AI project could work. I browsed the archives and i see you guys have similar ideas I'd love to see someone build a

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-21 Thread David Clark
- Original Message - From: Chuck Esterbrook [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 7:43 PM Subject: Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda Sometimes the slowness of a program is not contained in a small portion of a program. Especially, after a few rounds

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-20 Thread rooftop8000
--- Ben Goertzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: rooftop8000 wrote: Hi, I've been thinking for a bit about how a big collaboration AI project could work. I browsed the archives and i see you guys have similar ideas I'd love to see someone build a system that is capable of adding any

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-20 Thread David Clark
- Original Message - From: rooftop8000 To: agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 2:42 PM Subject: Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda Hi, I've been thinking for a bit about how a big collaboration AI project could work. I browsed the archives and i see you guys have

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-20 Thread Ben Goertzel
For people who might be interested in influencing some of the features of this system, I would appreciate them looking at my documentation at www.rccconsulting.com/hal.htm http://www.rccconsulting.com/hal.htm Although my system isn't quite ready for alpha distribution yet, I expect that it

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-20 Thread rooftop8000
I have seen multiple times where others have lamented an adequate platform that can be used for creating an AGI. One that has full introspection, speed, power tools, self programmability and extreme flexibility. I came to this conclusion about 3 years ago and have been creating that

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-20 Thread David Clark
If you were introducing a radically new programming paradigm for AGI, I would be more interested Not that I think this is necessary to achieve AGI, but I would find it more intellectually stimulating ;-) If you care to detail what kind of problem or structure you find hard to deal with

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-20 Thread Ben Goertzel
David Clark wrote: If you were introducing a radically new programming paradigm for AGI, I would be more interested Not that I think this is necessary to achieve AGI, but I would find it more intellectually stimulating ;-) If you care to detail what kind of problem or structure you

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-20 Thread David Clark
- Original Message - From: rooftop8000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 11:19 AM Subject: Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda I think we should somehow allow people to use all the program languages they want. My proposal certainly allows

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-20 Thread gts
On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 15:29:06 -0400, Ben Goertzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, **anything** can be dealt with in C++, it's just a matter of how awkward it is. nod :-) I don't want to become deeply involved in these language wars, because I cannot say honestly that my very limited

Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-20 Thread Charles D Hixson
rooftop8000 wrote: ... I think we should somehow allow people to use all the program languages they want. That somehow is the big problem. Most approaches to dealing with it are...lamentable. ... You can use closed modules if you have meta-information on how to use them and what they do.

RE: [agi] My proposal for an AGI agenda

2007-03-20 Thread Peter Voss
to overcome most serious limitations. I must say it *would* be nice to have a z# (ie. C# plus full wishlist). Peter Voss -Original Message- From: Ben Goertzel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 9:57 AM To: agi@v2.listbox.com Subject: Re: [agi] My proposal for an AGI

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