On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 11:25 PM Matt Mahoney <[email protected]> wrote:
> I mostly post to Facebook publicly rather than friends only, so my life > story is more accessible to any future robot builders. > With a bit different motive, I've been doing this since I swore off anonymous posts circa 1979 when at CDC Arden HIlls Operations, I was put in charge of the PLATO network's user identity system for its Notes network (precursor to Usenet). My motive was, and remains to this day, creating a heuristic vector in The AGI to help guide it toward truth. I figured "The" AGI would emerge, first, as an amalgam of all digital knowledge -- so my identity would be only one of a gazillion identities -- many latent -- in the data. My specific personality would be rather irrelevant -- a few residual parameters to instantiate "me", and would not be of much interest to anyone. After I got into neural networks in the late 80s and started trying to get them to generalize on my hardware convolution (DataCube video FIR) to do good multisource datafusion image segmentation, I realized how important model parsimony was and focused on various pruning algorithms. That's how I ended up serving truth by my emphasis on lossless compression of a wide range of longitudinal data. There was a time, however, during the 80s that I fell in love with a woman so deeply that I wanted to create an AGI to preserve her personality forever, and that was part of my motive for looking into early versions of imitation learning -- which, of course, was a forlorn exercise. ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/Tc32c76a0c85e2ca9-M925df9e2ba03d4342ea4d5d0 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
