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pushblog: January 2005
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Saturday, January 15, 2005. I ran across this peculiar thought experiment. Chalmers seems to be claiming that, to the agents living in the simulation, assuming they've gotten interested in the question of what minds are and how they work, the most reasonable explanation is a dualistic. One - and that we ourselves should consider dualistic explanations as not so outlandish. I see a couple of issues here. One could make a case for this, but it strikes me as enormously unlikely. View my complete profile.
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pushblog: the paradox of Wikipedia and Open Mind
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Wednesday, October 20, 2004. The paradox of Wikipedia and Open Mind. I ran across this quote from Larry Sanger, one of the co-founders of Wikipedia, about Wikipedia:. It must be full of a bunch of crank submissions, vandalism, and plain old sophomoric stupidity. But it's not. It's not half bad. In places, and increasingly, it's of very high quality. And that's even more paradoxical. Our Open Mind Common Sense. Using the data collected by our Open Mind project. Posted by Push Singh at 8:20 PM. It is somew...
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pushblog: the meaning of knowledge
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Monday, October 25, 2004. The meaning of knowledge. Generally, the word "knowledge" is very inclusive because the AI community has discovered a vast array of knowledge representation forms, and every one of them is useful for some purpose or the other. Thus, the more important questions may not be what is and isn't knowledge, but given some knowledge, questions such as the following:. For what purposes can it be used? When is it applicable? Who might find this knowledge useful? October 28, 2004 at 3:20 PM.
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pushblog: July 2005
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Thursday, July 28, 2005. John McCarthy in town. This is John McCarthy, me, Ed Fredkin, and Marvin Minsky at dinner. John McCarthy was in town for an interview about the Dartmouth conference, the event many regard to mark the birth of AI. It's rare that he and Marvin get together these days. I consider them the two people in the field most dedicated to building human-level AI. Posted by Push Singh at 9:57 PM. Saturday, July 16, 2005. Posted by Push Singh at 10:26 AM. View my complete profile.
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pushblog: Interior Grounding
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Saturday, July 16, 2005. It has been hard to give this blog any attention while finishing my dissertation, but now that it is done - I am now Dr. Singh! I will try to post a bit more often (although it is difficult to combat the Inverse Law of Usenet Bandwidth.). Posted by Push Singh at 10:26 AM. Sounds like Elman, J.L. (1993). Learning and development in neural networks: The importance of starting small. Cognition, 48, 71-99. Http:/ crl.ucsd.edu/ elman/Papers/elman cognition1993.pdf.
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pushblog: commonsense and the practice of AI
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Tuesday, October 12, 2004. Commonsense and the practice of AI. I had a chance today to spend a little time with a division director of the National Science Foundation. I showed him some of the work we are doing at the Media Lab to give computers more "common sense." I spent much of our time on the commonsense knowledge bases and reasoning tools we are developing, and a little of it on the cognitive architecture we are developing to coordinate the use of these systems. Posted by Push Singh at 5:51 PM.
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pushblog: Machine Desirantes
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Monday, February 21, 2005. Most television science fiction these days lacks advanced ideas - generally, they seem to be run-of-the-mill soap operas or social commentary. But the other day I ran across an impressive animated show called Ghost in the Shell. Posted by Push Singh at 9:06 PM. You should watch the GitS feature films. Start with the ten year old Ghost in the Shell then move to the six month old Ghost in the Shell: Innocence. Have you ever watched Akira? May 5, 2005 at 9:27 AM. Let me know what ...
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pushblog: February 2005
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Sunday, February 27, 2005. Big minds need to be SOMs. Every now and then someone asks me why there haven't been many implementations of Marvin Minsky's Society of Mind theory of intelligence; instead, most AI people seem to use homogenous planners or inference engines and fairly uniform knowledge representation schemes, and these methods are often reasonably effective. Posted by Push Singh at 9:02 PM. Monday, February 21, 2005. Posted by Push Singh at 9:06 PM. View my complete profile.
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pushblog: big minds need to be SOMs
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Sunday, February 27, 2005. Big minds need to be SOMs. Every now and then someone asks me why there haven't been many implementations of Marvin Minsky's Society of Mind theory of intelligence; instead, most AI people seem to use homogenous planners or inference engines and fairly uniform knowledge representation schemes, and these methods are often reasonably effective. Posted by Push Singh at 9:02 PM. February 28, 2005 at 5:53 PM. Ah, Push. Just found your blog. Saw SOM and my heart skipped a bea...
