From: Ben Goertzel (ben@webmind.com)
Date: Wed Jun 20 2001 - 12:38:24 MDT
I know that group well; it's a small team, housed in a mansion in Israel,
headed by my friend (sort of) Jason Hutchens. Jason was a grad student in
perth when I was a research fellow there. he's a world-class chat bot
builder, but in my view is not a very serious thinker about cognition,
pattern recognition, etc. his approach is very behavioral -- he wants to
make a series of chat bots that will sequentially emulate older and older
human children, until he gets one that passes the Turing test. He relies
heavily on statistical, Markov-chain-type learning methods. I like his
stuff but unless he's undertaken a radical revision of the conceptual
foundatiosn of his work, I think it's very unlikely he'll build a system
with much real intelligence.
Ben
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-sl4@sysopmind.com [mailto:owner-sl4@sysopmind.com]On Behalf
> Of Peter Voss
> Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 10:55 AM
> To: sl4@sysopmind.com; Michael Korns
> Subject: Real AI
>
>
> Somebody else is trying to do Real AI: http://www.a-i.com/
>
> It's worth looking at.
>
> www.optimal.org - Any and all feedback welcome: peter@optimal.org
>
>
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