From: Ben Goertzel (ben@goertzel.org)
Date: Sat Jan 26 2002 - 13:00:41 MST
There is a distinction between explicit and implicit knowledge that
has to be made here. N items in memory have 2^N combinations, and so
there *is* exponential increase of knowledge implicit in linear
increase in memory.
However, when knowledge is reprsented only implicitly, it takes
processing time to sort it out, so one has a time-space tradeoff.
This very crudely put point is really at the heart of AI design.
ben
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-sl4@sysopmind.com [mailto:owner-sl4@sysopmind.com]On Behalf
> Of Alan Grimes
> Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2002 11:29 AM
> To: sl4@sysopmind.com
> Subject: Re: AI and Moore's Law redux
>
>
> Ben Goertzel wrote:
> > For sure, you need a lot of RAM. You need a lot of knowledge readily
> > accessible -- not just atomic bits of knowledge but combinations of
> > and relations between atomic bits of knowledge.... And each of these
> > bits of knowledge needs to be continually re-configuring itself in
> > terms of the new bits of knowledge that have come into the mind, and
> > the changes in other bits of knowledge in the mind. This does require
> > a lot of memory and processing power, and my strong sense is that
> > it ain't gonna run on a Commodore VIC-20.
>
> A dude on arcondev@yahoogroups.com has proposed a learning system that
> would express what would ammount to a LOGARIHMIC growth function of
> memory unilization as a function of knowlege.
>
> The function would be something like:
>
> [Memory required] = LOG_k([Total Knowlege])
>
> I can't say I know what K would be; It would likley depend on the design
> of the system employed.
>
> His proposal was based on a notion of "abstraction" where a higher-level
> abstractions would be specified, like FORTH words, by simpler
> abstractions. As these higer level abstractions would overlap to a great
> extent, the cost of additional abstractions would decrease as more base
> abstractions become available.
>
> In other words, for a linear increase in memory, an exponential increase
> in knowlege should be possible.
>
> The process for automating this would probably solve the translation
> problem.
>
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