[Nottingham] [Talk] Wednesday 01/08/2012: Self Learning Software

[Martin]

> This Wednesday 01/08/2012 we have TJ explaining how babies can do better
> than current computer software and how our paper dictionaries are all
> 'wrong'!
> 
> ... And various other aspects, all to make for some interesting learning
> with:
> 
> 
> *Self Learning Software*
> http://nottingham.lug.org.uk/event/self-learning-software/

Thanks to TJ for an interesting and literally cutting edge presentation
exploring ideas for implementing artificial learning and intelligence.

That certainly lead onto some thoughtful follow-on discussion. That was
also another 'last bus home'!

Part of the idea is to use a small C coded 'framework', similar to a
micro-kernel in idea, to pull in and coordinate multiple
'apps'/'modules' that each offer services for /small/ parts for whatever
learning or intelligence is called upon.

And the world of AI research has generated such a tremendously huge mass
of research material, that perhaps a good way is to explore for yourself
how to learn intelligence...


Some links that come to mind from parts of the discussions are:

HAL 9000
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAL_9000

Reading Hal: Representation and Artificial Intelligence
www.lcc.gatech.edu/~mateas/publications/Mateas2001Chapter2005.pdf

The FreeHAL Project
https://www.freehal.net/freehal

Tuple Spaces
http://alumnus.caltech.edu/~croft/research/agent/tuplespaces/

Content-addressable memory
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content-addressable_memory

Content-addressable storage
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content-addressable_storage


And from my own experience... Before diving into constructing specialist
systems, you can get a much better idea of performance and enjoy much
easier debug by first /simulating/ the system in software!


No neural nets were implicated in all of this! ;-)

Further thoughts?


Next NLUG meetup is Wednesday 15/08/2012:

A Malt Cross Marrakesh
http://nottingham.lug.org.uk/event/a-malt-cross-marrakesh


Cheers,
Martin

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