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General Project Discussion / Re: Reasoner.js: a framework for generalized theory synthesis

« Last post by ivan.moony on Today at 12:04:13 am »

I had some experiments lately with symbolic algorithm synthesis. I had an input, and I had an output, and I had to clue up how can I brute force combine given rules to transform the input to the output. It works well with a small amount of steps, but eventually combinatorial explosion happens where I get stuck in almost endless loop that may take centuries to finally get an answer.

And that is where neural networks seem to do very good job: to quickly learn how to connect inputs to outputs, memorizing weights for future construction of outputs. Of course, there is an approximation error with neural networks, but given enough learning examples, it may work like a charm.

Basically, the two technologies should do the same thing, but with different advantages and drawbacks. The symbolic one brings certainty but it is slow while the neural one is fast but it brings randomness. Is combining them really the next big thing the world is waiting for?

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AI News / Re: Open AI GPT-4o - audio, vision, text combined reasoning

« Last post by MikeB on May 14, 2024, 05:46:48 am »

They are actually claiming reduced tokens in language. "English 1.1x fewer tokens (from 27 to 24)", with some languages compressing more.

Although there's little to say how it works, as Noam Chomsky points out, nothing is learned from language if a computer arbitrarily uses language and maths to predict with, including arbitrary pre-compression...

Response times are good however.

ChatGPT 3.5 is fast as well. https://chatgpt.com/

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AI News / Open AI GPT-4o - audio, vision, text combined reasoning

« Last post by MikeB on May 14, 2024, 05:37:05 am »

GPT-4o (“o” for “omni”) is a step towards much more natural human-computer interaction—it accepts as input any combination of text, audio, and image and generates any combination of text, audio, and image outputs. It can respond to audio inputs in as little as 232 milliseconds, with an average of 320 milliseconds, which is similar to human response time(opens in a new window) in a conversation. It matches GPT-4 Turbo performance on text in English and code, with significant improvement on text in non-English languages, while also being much faster and 50% cheaper in the API. GPT-4o is especially better at vision and audio understanding compared to existing models.

https://openai.com/index/hello-gpt-4o/

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General Hardware Talk / Butler In A Box (1983)

« Last post by MikeB on May 09, 2024, 09:39:06 am »

This is a fun video about Butler In A Box, sold from 1983-2000.

It was sold as voice recognition hardware (for up to 4 different users) that could respond as a bulter and turn on different electric items in the house. Lamp, TV, etc.

It had a huge price tag and notoriety for two decades in futuristic home wares, but does not have one mention in wikipedia as a standout in AI/voice recognition.

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AI News / AI controlled F-16, for real!

« Last post by frankinstien on May 04, 2024, 01:04:11 am »

Interesting article and the implementation of 1,000 aircraft controlled by AI is the tipping scale. Those nations that can harness AI don't need to sacrifice lives to win wars. Welcome to the game of World Domination, or more like the 1983 movie WarGames: "Shall We Play a Game?"   

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Haptek / Re: Haptek rises from the ashes

« Last post by Freddy on May 03, 2024, 01:28:56 pm »

Ahh I see, thanks for the update 

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Haptek / Re: Haptek rises from the ashes

« Last post by squarebear on May 03, 2024, 07:53:52 am »

I wouldn't get too excited about this. Virtyou hasn't been active for many years. We partnered with them to make an avatar for Mitsuku about 7 or 8 years ago. The demo is still online (Chrome only), but the bot no longer responds to input. Shame really, as it was really cool when it was working and great to demo on a phone.
https://virtyou.com/mitsy/m.html

Virtyou.ai later became expressive.ai but as their website is no longer online, I guess they don't exist any more. However, there is an old Youtube video from Mobilebeat 2017, which shows Angela Ford (the CTO of Expressive.ai) presenting a demo of Mitsuku and the avatar: https://youtu.be/UljiivP9aVo?si=4dky_-_jtevrjJeF&t=166

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Haptek / Haptek rises from the ashes

« Last post by Freddy on May 03, 2024, 12:27:21 am »

There is something interesting at a redirect from the old Haptek domain!

https://virtyou.com

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General Project Discussion / Re: Reasoner.js: a framework for generalized theory synthesis

« Last post by ivan.moony on April 30, 2024, 07:37:57 pm »

Done some rethinking about service virtual machines, and my framework conceptualization slowly fits into a shape decent enough for implementing: https://svm-suite.github.io/

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General Project Discussion / Re: Project Acuitas

« Last post by WriterOfMinds on April 30, 2024, 05:36:37 pm »

This past month, I started adding proper support for "issue trees," a feature whose absence has pained me as I've worked on the Narrative and Game Engines. Problems and goals seem to naturally exist in a hierarchy: any problem spawns a plan for solving it, which can contain new tasks or subproblems that require their own solutions, and so on until one reaches atomic actions that can be performed without issue. The Narrative understanding code already included some procedures for inferring extra issues from those explicitly stated in a story. But after they were created, no connection was maintained between parent and child issues.

So my work included adding the proper tree relationships, plus some code that would enforce the recursive cascade of issue deactivation when a problem is solved or a goal realized, and testing to be sure this worked correctly in Narrative and didn't break anything in the Game Engine.

I have also been pushing hard to get that previously-mentioned knowledge representation refactoring finished. I got to the point of bringing the reformatted semantic database online and moving a lot of changes into the live code - but I did not quite get it finished, so if the Acuitas codebase were a business, it would have "pardon our dust" signs everywhere. He can at least read stories without crashing, and get through a rudimentary "Hello, my name is ..." conversation, but there are a lot of bugs for me to clean up yet. I'm planning to revise the Conversation area soon anyway, though, so maybe it's okay?

More on the blog: https://writerofminds.blogspot.com/2024/04/acuitas-diary-71-april-2024.html