Hi, I'm curious about the architecture of GAC. I've experimented with similar ideas, and the most promising approach I could come up with had different...
Danny Ayers
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Nov 3, 2000 5:42 pm
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Hi, I'm Danny Ayers, a freelance Tech Author (mainly Java) - most recent project an expert system for the Palm PDA. Originally from the uk, recently moved to...
Danny Ayers
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Nov 3, 2000 5:42 pm
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Hi, I agree wholeheartedly with Chris's statements about the need for a bottom up approach to work of this kind. I do however think a massively distributed,...
Danny Ayers
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Nov 3, 2000 6:10 pm
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Hi, I've just been reading the MIST paper, and I suspect that it may be fundamentally flawed, possibly in two different ways. Please do not take offence, I do...
Danny Ayers
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Nov 4, 2000 6:54 pm
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By Mark Coffman ... Hi Danny! I'm a relative new-comer to the group as well. I am not particularly a GAC methods defender, though. ... I guess I fundamentally...
Mark Coffman
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Nov 4, 2000 11:15 pm
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Hi, Nice to hear from you. You certainly have a point with "Fuzzy-Logic become fuzzy thinking."{tm} - I have a feeling GAC suffers from this somewhat. Where I...
Danny Ayers
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Nov 5, 2000 4:32 pm
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Hello all, I'm Bob. I'm one of thousands of young, frustrated, mostly-feckless students of mediocre wit who picked up Hofstadter's "Gödel, Escher, Bach..."...
bob
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Nov 5, 2000 4:34 pm
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Hi, <apologies if you got a message fragment, I'll repost the full thing when I find it - I'm afraid I've got a new laptop modem, which I haven't got working...
Danny Ayers
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Nov 5, 2000 6:02 pm
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Chris McKinstry [cmckinst@...] asked Ananova to send you this story from http://www.ananova.com Chris wrote : Comments? ... Scientists discover 'second...
Ananova
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Nov 10, 2000 5:42 pm
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You didn't by any chance find this one through the Fortean Time site? (http://www.forteantimes.com) I must admit it seems a little unlikely in the terms they...
Danny Ayers
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Nov 10, 2000 7:26 pm
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I read something about a year ago about a similar finding with a discovery of tissue containing 14 [mb]illion neurons in the human heart. I forget where I...
Erik Olson
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Nov 10, 2000 8:05 pm
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perhaps occasionally pieces of the surgeon's brain dribble onto the patient, causing confusion in two ways......
Danny Ayers
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Nov 10, 2000 8:28 pm
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by Mark Coffman I thought I might throw out a statement to see if it stimulates any discusion. Statement: My studies seem to indicate that "language-use" does ...
Mark Coffman
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Nov 20, 2000 3:41 am
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Well, this is a point that has been the subject of a protracted and heated debate for some time now, I believe. On the one hand, one may argue (with Turing)...
Goldberg Felix
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Nov 20, 2000 2:49 pm
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Hi Mark, I'm new to the list. Has it been a bit quiet lately ? Could you elaborate on your method /reasoning used to identify useful partitioning of the...
Keines
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Nov 20, 2000 2:49 pm
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Hi, I'm with Keines - we really need a bit more elaboration on the kind of partitioning you are talking about, the form of 'language-use' as well as some info...
Danny Ayers
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Nov 20, 2000 3:27 pm
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Greetings A.I'ers, You've probably all heard of 'AIBO', Sony's robot dog that can be purchased as a replacement to the family pet. ( ...
Keines
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Nov 22, 2000 1:51 am
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Hi, Humanoid robots - wow! It conjures up some wonderful B-movie images : Hondzilla vs. Sonykong etc. You're right about the potential though - if someone did...
Danny Ayers
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Nov 22, 2000 4:51 pm
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I saw an interesting episode of scientific American frontiers last night. I caught the tail end, actually. It looked like Alan Alda was interviewing air force...
Erik Olson
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Nov 22, 2000 9:34 pm
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Keines : Ifyou are interested in information on potential applications/implications of potential future developments in AI : Check Starlab.org and click...
Christopher Altman
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Nov 22, 2000 9:35 pm
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... the probabilty distribution is NOT distinctive, which is the whole point! it is .5/.5... and it is very easy to make an artificial system that generates ...
Christopher McKinstry
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Nov 23, 2000 5:46 am
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Thanks Chris, I found it a lot clearer put like this. However...I still have major doubts though - let's say you've got your corpus system with 10^10 stable...
Danny Ayers
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Nov 23, 2000 4:11 pm
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... the problem with the turing test is its conversational style - it is difficult to decide if a response is intelligent or not - the judgement is subjective,...
Christopher McKinstry
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Nov 23, 2000 7:51 pm
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On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 07:51:05PM +0000, Christopher McKinstry wrote: [...] ... [...] On the other hand it's the only widely accepted way of testing for ...
andrew@...
Nov 23, 2000 11:43 pm
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... The information would be human, but I don't think that implies humanlike thought processes. For example, if the mindpixels were concerned with an entirely...
bob
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Nov 23, 2000 11:43 pm
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<snip> ... all i am is a natural language interface to the enyclopedia of me... my intelligence come from the fact that my encyclopedia is capable of answering...
Christopher McKinstry
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Nov 24, 2000 12:53 am
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Hi Chris, Thanks for some more grand responses! ... Agreed, but they are dynamically interconnected - even if you did lots of tomographs over time, it would be...
Danny Ayers
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Nov 24, 2000 4:07 pm
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hi everyone... i'm going to have a new site up soon www.slashAI.com which is a slashcode (www.slashcode.com) clone of www.slashdot.org specifically for...
Christopher McKinstry
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Nov 27, 2000 8:51 am
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... Of course you know that statement is simply opinion. I would argue that there is much more that makes up the "mind" that cannot be qualified in terms of...
Eric Gerlach
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Nov 27, 2000 1:44 pm
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... emotion can be captured in mindpixels, in fact that was the plan all along (see my slashdot interview http://slashdot.org/articles/00/07/04/2114223.shtml) ...