Sorry, was in too much of a rush to give link.....
Loosemore, R.P.W. (2007). Complex Systems, Artificial Intelligence and Theoretical Psychology. In B. Goertzel & P. Wang (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2006 AGI Workshop. IOS Press, Amsterdam.
Excuse me, but as much as I think the SIAI bunch were being rude to you, if you had presented, at a serious conference on a serious topic, a paper that waves its hands, yells “Complexity! Irreducible! Parallel!” and expected a good reception, I would have been privately snarking if not publicly. That would be me acting like a straight-up asshole, but it would also be because you never try to understand a phenomenon by declaring it un-understandable. Which is not to say that symbolic, theorem-prover, “Pure Maths are Pure Reason which will create Pure Intelligence” approaches are very good either—they totally failed to predict that the brain is a universal learning machine, for instance.
(And so far, the “HEY NEURAL NETS LEARN WELL” approach is failing to predict a few things I think they really ought to be able to see, and endeavor to show.)
That anyone would ever try to claim a technological revolution is about to arise from either of those schools of work is what constantly discredits the field of artificial intelligence as a hype-driven fraud!
Okay, so I am trying to understand what you are attacking here, and I assume you mean my presentation of that paper at the 2007 AGIRI workshop.
Let me see: you reduced the entire paper to the statement that I yelled “Complexity! Irreducible! Parallel!”.
Hmmmm...… that sounds like you thoroughly understood the paper and read it in great detail, because you reflected back all the arguments in the paper, showed good understanding of the cognitive science, AI and complex-systems context, and gave me a thoughtful, insightful list of comments on some of the errors of reasoning that I made in the paper.
So I guess you are right. I am ignorant. I have not been doing research in cognitive psychology, AI and complex systems for 20 years (as of the date of that workshop). I have nothing to say to defend any of my ideas at all, when people make points about what is wrong in those ideas. And, worse still, I did not make any suggestions in that paper about how to solve the problem I described, except to say “HEY NEURAL NETS LEARN WELL”.
I wish you had been around when I wrote the paper, because I could have reduced the whole thing to one 3-word and one 5-word sentence, and saved a heck of a lot of time.
P.S. I will forward your note to the Santa Fe Institute and the New England Complex Systems Institute, so they can also understand that they are ignorant. I guess we can expect an unemployment spike in Santa Fe and Boston, next month, when they all resign en masse.
Sorry, was in too much of a rush to give link.....
Loosemore, R.P.W. (2007). Complex Systems, Artificial Intelligence and Theoretical Psychology. In B. Goertzel & P. Wang (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2006 AGI Workshop. IOS Press, Amsterdam.
http://richardloosemore.com/docs/2007_ComplexSystems_rpwl.pdf
Excuse me, but as much as I think the SIAI bunch were being rude to you, if you had presented, at a serious conference on a serious topic, a paper that waves its hands, yells “Complexity! Irreducible! Parallel!” and expected a good reception, I would have been privately snarking if not publicly. That would be me acting like a straight-up asshole, but it would also be because you never try to understand a phenomenon by declaring it un-understandable. Which is not to say that symbolic, theorem-prover, “Pure Maths are Pure Reason which will create Pure Intelligence” approaches are very good either—they totally failed to predict that the brain is a universal learning machine, for instance.
(And so far, the “HEY NEURAL NETS LEARN WELL” approach is failing to predict a few things I think they really ought to be able to see, and endeavor to show.)
That anyone would ever try to claim a technological revolution is about to arise from either of those schools of work is what constantly discredits the field of artificial intelligence as a hype-driven fraud!
Okay, so I am trying to understand what you are attacking here, and I assume you mean my presentation of that paper at the 2007 AGIRI workshop.
Let me see: you reduced the entire paper to the statement that I yelled “Complexity! Irreducible! Parallel!”.
Hmmmm...… that sounds like you thoroughly understood the paper and read it in great detail, because you reflected back all the arguments in the paper, showed good understanding of the cognitive science, AI and complex-systems context, and gave me a thoughtful, insightful list of comments on some of the errors of reasoning that I made in the paper.
So I guess you are right. I am ignorant. I have not been doing research in cognitive psychology, AI and complex systems for 20 years (as of the date of that workshop). I have nothing to say to defend any of my ideas at all, when people make points about what is wrong in those ideas. And, worse still, I did not make any suggestions in that paper about how to solve the problem I described, except to say “HEY NEURAL NETS LEARN WELL”.
I wish you had been around when I wrote the paper, because I could have reduced the whole thing to one 3-word and one 5-word sentence, and saved a heck of a lot of time.
P.S. I will forward your note to the Santa Fe Institute and the New England Complex Systems Institute, so they can also understand that they are ignorant. I guess we can expect an unemployment spike in Santa Fe and Boston, next month, when they all resign en masse.