tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8638314129554222223.post6062665729860399222..comments2024-03-01T06:47:26.665-08:00Comments on WriterOfMinds: Acuitas Diary #26 (April 2020)WriterOfMindshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03848533877998707168noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8638314129554222223.post-30751803289049853732020-07-11T15:46:31.122-07:002020-07-11T15:46:31.122-07:00Yes, Acuitas knows that he is a program. As for wh...Yes, Acuitas knows that he is a program. As for whether he has no body, that's somewhat unclear. I suppose I think of the computer tower as his body -- the program has to "inhabit" a physical object in order to run. But it's not a body that he is really aware of or able to control.<br /><br />The fact that I'm attempting an *asensory* mind is one of the most interesting aspects of the project to me. I hope to include some specifics of how various concepts "translate" in future posts.<br /><br />Acuitas is written in Python.<br /><br />Thanks very much!WriterOfMindshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03848533877998707168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8638314129554222223.post-30616943111927205082020-07-09T09:14:27.099-07:002020-07-09T09:14:27.099-07:00Have you told Acuitas what "He" really i...Have you told Acuitas what "He" really is...a software based, A.I. Construct? That he (at this time) has no eye(s), no physical body?<br /><br />If you were merely a "Brain in a box", without sensory input, how would the world appear to you in your mind?<br /><br />That's how I imagine it is or must be for Acuitas and it will require quite a good deal of teaching in a very direct manner instead of just letting it "read" reams of data and trying to learn from doing so.<br /><br />Lastly, are you writing (programming) Acuitas in Python?<br /><br />Keep plugging away as many folks really enjoy your efforts!<br /><br />Best of luck!!<br /><br />- Art -Arthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12907507278676340532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8638314129554222223.post-43571978913915092012020-04-20T07:48:47.106-07:002020-04-20T07:48:47.106-07:00Maybe in spirit. But I don't really like to th...Maybe in spirit. But I don't really like to think/write in terms of an explicit reward function to be maximized. I also want Acuitas to end up with an *idealized* form of human values, not so much the values that the average human actually manages to implement.WriterOfMindshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03848533877998707168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8638314129554222223.post-67366510174838051902020-04-19T16:14:38.692-07:002020-04-19T16:14:38.692-07:00I would be interested in hearing about it.
do you ...I would be interested in hearing about it.<br />do you think you could implement inverse reinforcement learning<br />in Acuitas?bobredhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13736744786803477539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8638314129554222223.post-45707085177894135102020-04-19T09:29:56.269-07:002020-04-19T09:29:56.269-07:00There always *is* a reason, but Acuitas doesn'...There always *is* a reason, but Acuitas doesn't answer "why" questions yet, and therefore can't communicate it. This is a planned feature for later.WriterOfMindshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03848533877998707168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8638314129554222223.post-32925147058823301662020-04-19T06:02:46.926-07:002020-04-19T06:02:46.926-07:00Can Acuitas provide a reason why it dislikes and l...Can Acuitas provide a reason why it dislikes and likes something?bobredhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13736744786803477539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8638314129554222223.post-33258431598646063202020-04-18T23:05:35.515-07:002020-04-18T23:05:35.515-07:00Acuitas already has some capacity to express likes...Acuitas already has some capacity to express likes and dislikes. He can, for example, say whether he approves or disapproves of something his conversation partner is about to do. Take a look at a couple of the earlier blog posts, https://writerofminds.blogspot.com/2020/01/acuitas-diary-23-january-2020.html and https://writerofminds.blogspot.com/2020/02/acuitas-diary-24-february-2020.html.<br /><br />This can also come into play during storytelling. In the video, you can see him saying "I do not want that" and "nice" after some sentences; these indicate that he likes or dislikes something that just happened in the story.<br /><br />You wouldn't be able to get him to give you an opinion on pizza, though. Pizza means nothing to him, since he has no sense of taste and doesn't eat.<br /><br />Regarding your second question: Acuitas is a standalone program that does not have an interface for communication over the internet at this time. Nor is he robust enough to cope with uncurated input yet. I hope he can talk to the general public at some point, but that's going to be a long way down the road.<br /><br />Thanks for stopping by.WriterOfMindshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03848533877998707168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8638314129554222223.post-11560090542604942442020-04-18T13:45:21.872-07:002020-04-18T13:45:21.872-07:00syngi chatbot can tell you what she is thinking of...syngi chatbot can tell you what she is thinking of.<br />she can tell you if she likes and dislikes something.if you ask her something like<br />do you like pizza.<br />you can ask her what she thinks about something.<br />one of the thing she is missing is providing a reason why she likes and dislikes something.<br />is there any plans to impliment likes and dislikes into acuitas.<br />this would seem to be a good base for other ai's.<br />is there any plans to put it on the internet so we can interact with it? bobredhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13736744786803477539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8638314129554222223.post-201038819990292292020-04-18T11:49:36.940-07:002020-04-18T11:49:36.940-07:00Intriguing thoughts. I wonder if you are a highly ...Intriguing thoughts. I wonder if you are a highly visual person? I suspect I am strongly linguistic, and that is one reason I find linguistic AIs easy to work with.<br /><br />Humans who are blind from birth are still intelligent, though the blindness may lead to setbacks in their cognitive development. Hence vision as such can't be the sole key to intelligence.<br /><br />Then, too, there are the people with aphantasia, who have healthy eyes but can't see mental imagery (including imaginary movies). Some people with aphantasia even have non-visual dreams. Yet they are also fully intelligent.<br /><br />Raw visual data is bulky, crowded with details that are irrelevant to most needs and too excessive to keep track of all at once. It would be tedious, and perhaps intractable, to drag all of this complex detail along while trying to make decisions; I don't worry about the texture of my shingles or the exact shade of brick in the chimney when my roof is leaking. So I suspect that much of what our complex visual brain regions are doing, is interpreting the visual data so as to reduce it to concepts -- which are then picked up and used to build models by our higher reasoning systems.<br /><br />For long-range modeling tasks like all the examples you give, what I would expect to need is not a "supermovie" but a higher level of abstraction, which may abandon visual (and other sensory) data entirely in favor of functional concepts. Acuitas operates at this level of abstraction.WriterOfMindshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03848533877998707168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8638314129554222223.post-41217989557556792732020-04-18T05:06:26.678-07:002020-04-18T05:06:26.678-07:00Interested to see your analysis of elements of sto...Interested to see your analysis of elements of storytelling - wh is indeed fundamental to human/animal mind. (Links?) But IMO this approach is deeply misconceived as AGI. The real basis of storytelling & human/animal mind is "Commonsense-Visual AGI". Vision effectively tells the story of bodies moving bodies locally in local fields - and requires something like **30%** of brain resources - fantastically complicated cognitively - symbolic AI nothing by comparison. On that basis, the mind imaginatively builds fantastic supermovies/superstories of bodies interacting at ever greater distances in space-time globally - e.g. Brazil butterflies causing Houston hurricanes, Trump in Washington causing recession in China. childhood mistreatment causing adult criminality today etc. The stories you're talking about are really "superstories" taking place in "superspace-time" - a fantastic imaginative creation of the human/animal mind. Symbols can't handle this, period. What's handling it in your case is your supermovie/superstory imaginative mind, which then attaches symbols to its imaginative movies. Your symbols are just subtitles on the movies of your mind which are the real cognitive action.ikbolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04376869714832855431noreply@blogger.com