From: Ben Goertzel (ben@goertzel.org)
Date: Tue Feb 22 2005 - 15:52:38 MST
Well I am always looking for ways to decrease rather than increase the
number of lines of code in my AI system. I definitely don't think that
having a lot of code is necessarily a good thing.... The Einsteinian saw
"As simple as possible but no simpler" is quite pertinent here.
-- Ben
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-sl4@sl4.org [mailto:owner-sl4@sl4.org]On Behalf Of J. Andrew
> Rogers
> Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 4:03 PM
> To: sl4@sl4.org
> Subject: RE: Minimum complexity of AI?
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> Stephen Reed wrote:
> > Cyc presently consists of about 2.8 million lines
> > of C code generated from our Lisp dialect SubL.
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> Ben Goertzel wrote:
> > Well, I think that a completed Novamente AGI
> > would have less than 100K lines of C++...
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> Now boys, everyone knows it is not the size of your codebase, it is how
> you use it.
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> Or at least that is what I tell myself to make myself feel better about
> having a codebase in C that is at least an order of magnitude smaller
> than either of yours...
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>
> j. andrew rogers
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