Interesting post (thanks for putting up the detailed papers RichardKennaway!!)! I’ve always been fascinated by Doug Lenat and his creations and I would like to share a google techtalk, by Doug Lenat about his work and ideas from 2006. It’s contents have direct bearing on this post (although it doesn’t mention EURISKO specifically nor does it give insight into it’s main loop, it’s more of an overview thing and the first half has a slight bias towards search and it ends up discussing CYC: it does give a lot of good information about how to model the world and make an reasoning agent on top of that, the most interesting part starts at 29:00 minutes in)
As for the question in the post: I am a programmer, and would love to lend my time to a project such as this. My vote would be for python, since it allows for very rapid development and has a lot of ai code available like bayesian inference, and fuzzy logic. It has good (enough) performance and is easily distributable, but PHP and/or Java would be fine by me as well.
I think an easily runnable program that would produce results and give insight would be at least “just cool” and might help inspire a next generation of people. I believe there are dangers in AGI, and FAI is a problem that merits attention but at the same time I believe that it is an essential next step in the development of mankind. If you look at our development you see a steady movement of “outsourcing” our abilities. First it was out muscle power but since the invention of computers it has become intelligence. This is a good thing, you used to need a trained proffesional to do a bloodsugar test for you, now you can buy this “intelligence” in a small electronic package. This is good since it frees up time for the professional and reduces the error rate for the patient. AGI would allow for even more of this!
Interesting post (thanks for putting up the detailed papers RichardKennaway!!)! I’ve always been fascinated by Doug Lenat and his creations and I would like to share a google techtalk, by Doug Lenat about his work and ideas from 2006. It’s contents have direct bearing on this post (although it doesn’t mention EURISKO specifically nor does it give insight into it’s main loop, it’s more of an overview thing and the first half has a slight bias towards search and it ends up discussing CYC: it does give a lot of good information about how to model the world and make an reasoning agent on top of that, the most interesting part starts at 29:00 minutes in)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7704388615049492068
As for the question in the post: I am a programmer, and would love to lend my time to a project such as this. My vote would be for python, since it allows for very rapid development and has a lot of ai code available like bayesian inference, and fuzzy logic. It has good (enough) performance and is easily distributable, but PHP and/or Java would be fine by me as well.
I think an easily runnable program that would produce results and give insight would be at least “just cool” and might help inspire a next generation of people. I believe there are dangers in AGI, and FAI is a problem that merits attention but at the same time I believe that it is an essential next step in the development of mankind. If you look at our development you see a steady movement of “outsourcing” our abilities. First it was out muscle power but since the invention of computers it has become intelligence. This is a good thing, you used to need a trained proffesional to do a bloodsugar test for you, now you can buy this “intelligence” in a small electronic package. This is good since it frees up time for the professional and reduces the error rate for the patient. AGI would allow for even more of this!