Beatufiul Researchers - a documentary about Famelab 2010 and the promo clip of the Bulgarian TV show "Beautiful Science" | Красиви учени, или Зад кулисите на Лаборатория за слава/Феймлаб 2010 и Красива наука 2011

That's my latest artistically shot and edited funny documentary, edited and composited with my own software. It's still an in-house prototype and I've not being working on it much though - the project was totally frozen for 4+ months since the previous movie in the summer, I added a few new functions lately for this one. Audio: Bulgarian Original post and info (Bulgaria...

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Embodiment is just coordinate spaces, interactivity and modalities - not a mystery

"The debate" - should an AGI be embodied or not. I participated in a discussion on sensorimotor hierarchies a few months ago in the AGI list, but I'm lazy to digest it here right now (yet). I'll reword one POV of the essence which I thought of recently, though.  "Body" and "embodiment" is actually about: - Known fixed basic continuous coordinate spaces - that simplifies search and basic operations and sets one of the basic components of the inputs and their initial "labels" - coordinates. The simplest use of this is that...

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I'm a Rocker Researcher! Demo - AC/DC's "Rocker" and Todor's Improvisation Cover Solo

"Rocker" - AC/DC and me Tosh - performed with my new baby (on the right) Photographer: me...

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Abstract Addressing and Discontinuous Addressing Impede Processing in Generalizing Hierarchies

The article is related to the series of:  Tuesday, October 18, 2011 Rationalization and Confusions Caused by High Level Generalizations and the Feedforward-Feedback Imbalance in Brain and Generalization Hierarchies The lowest level of addressing for human mind are: - Orientation/position of muscles/bones. - Coordinates in sensory matrices:  - Visual coordinate on the retina.  - Coordinate of a tactile input on the body.  - Pitch of the sound.  - Particluar tastes or smells.A bit higher level, but still...

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Exoskeletons - Berkeley Bionics Human Exoskeleton

Do you want one of these super suits to carry your stuff? :) I do....

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Terms: Self-Improving General Intelligence (SIGI). Self-Improving Generally Intelligent Mind (SIGIM). Самоусъвършенстващ се Разум (СУР). Самоусъвършенстваща се мислеща машина (СУММ).

IMO "A" in AGI or "AI" is a redundant word, and what's more important in POV are the other terms. - General Intelligence (GI)  - can be applied to humans as well - Self-Improving General Intelligence (SIGI) - Self-Improving Generally Intelligent Mind (SIGIM) - Self-Improving Generally Intelligent Machine (SIGIM) (SIGI & SIGIM are interchangeable; SIGI & GI can be applied to humans as well)... - Универсален разум (УР) или само "разум" - може да се прилага и за хора, и за машини. - Самоусъвършенстващ се универсален...

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Richard Feynman - a Great Person, Physicist and a Born to be an Actor and Comedian. Talks Worth Listening To. In Memoriam

I recommend all of his talks for inspiration and fun. He's a hybrid of an ingenious physicist and a very talented actor and comedian - reminds me of Robert De Niro and Al Pacino; it's something about their common New York accent. Richard Feynman, the Nobel, 'It's a pain in the neck.' Richard Feynman - The Character of Physical Law - Part 7 Seeking New Laws (full version) Feynman on Scientific Method. (Related closely to General Intelligence principles in AGI) Richard Feynman - The Distinction of Past and Future. BTW,...

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PETMAN - Boston Dynamics' new Stunning Humanoid Robot and AlphaDog

Wow... An  e-zine Article ...

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News: AGI Forum Opened (Alpha) and Twenkid Research - updated web site (Alpha) | Форум по Универсален изкуствен разум (изкуствен интелект) на Тодор Арнаудов - Тош

Welcome to the updated web site of "Twenkid Research" (Alpha) and to the AGI Forum of the Independent Scalable AGI Society which opened for participants, but it's "Alpha" as well, need to be filled with some more pinned topics, information and links in the sections - I prepared plenty of them. http://research.twenkid.com Update: It doesn't work anymore. May be opened in the future. It seemed that some DNS were hacked and point to a forum that doesn't have anything to do with thinking machines... Enjoy ... Колеги, заповядайте...

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News - To Open - Discussion Forum of the Independent Scalable Artificial General Intelligence Society

Recently I realized how the conservative culture in Academia has emerged - somebody got pissed off of bullshit in open discussions with no moderation, bad selection and low standard for the participants in the discussions. Unfortunately this shit happens on a regular basis in the AGIRI AGI list. Some people has noticed it, but they have given up to do anything about it. Sorry! My solution is a moderated forum with higher standards and requirements, starting with invitations to participants. Technically the forum is already...

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Rationalization and Confusions Caused by High Level Generalizations and the Feedforward-Feedback Imbalance in Brain and Generalization Hierarchies

Rationalization and Confusions Caused by High Level Generalizations and the Feedforward-Feedback Imbalance in Brain and Generalization Hierarchies Continues from Frontal Lobe Activation Patterns in Pessimistic & Optimistic Brains, and in Infant Brain Before and After Understanding of Object Permanence 1. Higher-to-Lower level feedback is less efficient than Lower-To-Higher level feed-forward generalization. Example: Image/Object Recognition vs Image/Object Rendering, performed by humans. Every healthy child can recognize...

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Frontal Lobe Activation Patterns in Pessimistic & Optimistic Brains, and in Infant Brain Before and After Understanding of Object Permanence

Quotations from "Brain 'rejects negative thoughts'"When the news was positive, all people had more activity in the brain's frontal lobes, which are associated with processing errors. With negative information, the most optimistic people had the least activity in the frontal lobes, while the least optimistic had the most.It suggests the brain is picking and choosing which evidence to listen to.Interpretation of mine: frontal lobe is supposed to be the highest level of processing, which includes the top of the iceberg of conscious...

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Human-Computer Interface Cool Devices - Computer Vision, Projection, Gesture, Speech Recognition and Text-To-Speech - Pranav Mistry, IPhone4 and mine

Impressive, I need something like the Pranav's devices for myself.Research AssistantThat reminds me of a project of mine called. Well, a secret. :P It was/is supposed to integrate a lot of tools in an intelligent way and to boost your performance, saving you all kinds of labor intensive tasks, and it was supposed to monitor your actions and behavior.I have thought of developing a part of it as MS thesis in early 2008, such as marking of important paragraphs and pages from a book/paper with a simple gesture while you're reading...

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Externalism - or on the External Storage and Tools that Extend Human Mind and Brain and are Indispensable for its Development

Recently I discovered that I've shared believes in this philosophical direction since my teenage works (found how it's called).One introductory term - "paradoxical universality of brain" - brain is specialized in being universal.The estimation of brain's enormous computing power and memory are arbitrary/not really practical, because brain power is not comparable to computer power. Computers are in fact more flexible and more "universal" than brain, and the ultimate cognitive system is a brain (generally intelligent agent/core,...

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News: Hot Discussions on the AGI List on sensorimotor hierarchical generalization approaches vs "symbolic", simplicity and compression abuses etc.

Some good/funny discussions are running in the AGI mailing list.http://www.agiri.org/email/!-- http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/ -->Archive: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/%3dnowI'll probably prepare a digest of the relevant discussion...

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News: Coming up - on probabilities, logic, language, developmental psychology, bottom-up pattern discovery and prediction etc.

I've been involved a lot in working on my artistic career some months ago, but recently I've been turning on the research thread again - joined AGI mail list to notice the community there about the two AGI university courses taught in Plovdiv, and started to spend some time in AGI studies and reflection. A comment of mine on Narrow AI-niks, in an Ben Goertzel article on "AI Nanny". http://hplusmagazine.com/2011/08/17/does-humanity-need-an-ai-nanny/Matthew: Ben, I respect the opinion of AGI experts but because I have no programming...

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Участието на Тош в онлайн реалити шоуто "Програмист търси жена" - Todor's Participation in a Funny Online Reality Show (Interview/Picture Story)

Гледайте участието ми във веселото Интернет риалити шоу "Програмист търси жена". Уникалното интервю-фоторазказ с мен, "всестранно развития пънкар", Китаристът и др. излезе в сряда, 27/7. (...няколко малки фрагментчета...) (...) С какво се занимаваш? - С всичко... Обаче дамите ще ме изкарат самохвалко, ако тръгна да изреждам, затова после ще ти кажа част от нещата, които може би най-много ще ги... развълнуват. Как така? Не си ли програмист? -...

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Why shorter Stature and Lower camera angle are Unconsciously associated with "Inferiority"? Memories from childhood (Nature or Nurture)

!-- --> I think this one is very obvious, I'll share my view on it: We've felt like this as children, when we've seen the bigger ones and adults from down below and had to bend our necks to look up to see their eyes. Bigger and older ones made us feel inferior, and we really were - back then. (*See also below) Similarly, we felt superior to the smaller ones, and that's why looking from higher angle feels like being "superior" to the subject on the picture. Both are for pictures displaying people, particularly faces,...

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Punk Researchers - "Love's No Friend of Mine", or "Give it to me!" - Hard Rock - Punk Musical, starring Todor

Български, с повече инфо."Give it to me!", or "Love's no Friend of Mine" - hard rock & punk musical, with music by Todor "Tosh/Twenkid" Arnaudov(*see below) and the great Bulgarian punk band "Kontrol". Starring Tosh and Anya Chuleva, directed by Tosh. *Played, arranged and partially created - parts from a jam session starting from Rainbow's "Love's no Friend" theme, transitions and progressions on guitar, bass and keyboard; rhythm...

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Teenage Theory of Universe and Mind, Original Works and Slides in English

Well, I did the essential translation to English of that part of my old "capital works" an year ago, but gave up publishing it back then. In the mean time I prepared/translated a lecture for my second AGI course, which is more "disciplined" in structure than the raw writings. Todor Arnaudov's [Teenage] Theory of Universe and Mind, 2001-2004- Original work, Part 3- Original work, Part 4- Lecture SlidesIn the context of my teenage theory I'd suggest you checking out Valentin Turchin's view in his book "The Phenomenon of Science"...

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Watch for the MIT Competition - I Squared

MIT has always been honorable place for AI, but IMHO - only from 50s to 70s.http://isquared.mit.edu/They seem from those who don't know or deny the term "AGI" - of course, classical guys, "they created the field".I am not really impressed yet, European IMCLEVER project with Schmidhuber is way better, a real AGI project and a real competition. However this is MIT - very rich and very big....

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"GAI" stuff - ridiculous ignorant AI articles, unaware of the existence of the AGI community

Enjoy some funny ignorant "GAI"-stuff (or worse) I reached to by a friend's link:Unthinking MachinesSolving AIMinsky, Chomsky...It seems possible and funny that the AI grandfathers don't even know about their grandsons (see the blog) and their theoretical progress in AGI, and that many of them consider "AI" a retired (retarded) term....

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Information Overload and Brain Computing Power are Extremely Exaggerated - Repetitions, Noise, Junk Data and Miscalculations

For example: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/10/AR2011021004916_2.html?sid=ST2011021100514http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/10/AR2011021004916_2.html?sid=ST2011021100514 I'd question their methodology and claim for pocket calculators as having such a share, but this one is the best: "But Hilbert offers a humbling comparison. Despite our gargantuan digital growth, the DNA in a single human body still stores far more information - and a single "human brain computes far...

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Neuroplasticity and Aging Brain - "On Brain" Blog of Michael Merzenich

Think faster focus better and remember moreRewiring our brain to stay younger...Some bookmarks/notes:46 min + -- aging brain, older , noisier ...46:30 - 47:30 older brain doesn't keep details, relies on abstractions, but the details are what can be remembered.50:30 - cognitive test, recognize a sound, then a following, aging 20s - 20 times/sec, 80-ies 7 times/sec6-8 samples syllable --> 2 samples per syllabple //51:00Dr. Merzenich claims old brain can be "rejuvenated" to some extent and is applying a software system for...

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Cyberdyne HAL - Cybernics, Transhumanism and Exoskeletons and Human Power Augmentation

Quite funny names... :) http://www.cybernics.tsukuba.ac.jp/If you speak Danish: http://transhumanisten.dk/2011/03/23/61...

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News: Independent Scalable Artificial General Intelligence and Self-Impoving General Intelligence (AGI & SIGI) Tribune & Society - Forum/Magazine/E-zine/"Journal"/Circle

Well, the idea and the reason for it: Official AGI Journal and Independent AGI E-zine. Declare it "founded". It doesn't need to be formal etc., it's something that exists and has existed anyway, this blog has been one of the tribunes of this society, but coining a name may assist in locating it and taking it more seriously. Whatever. :) "Founding members" are: Todor Arnaudov and X (As of march 2012, his membership wsa disciplinary suspended for prolonged abuse of other members and sociopathic "god-complex" attitude). The...

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GAI and GAI Conferences and "AI: A Modern --Sorry-- Post-Mortem Approach"

Feel welcome: http://epia2011.appia.pt/Well, congratulations for the topics and for those guys reforming, but the term is ridiculous. It's obviously coined by orthodox scientifical AI-niks, who're reforming, while keeping their scientific roots (means citations, publications in "high-impact journals" etc.). I'd stick to the terms AGI and UAI, like in Bulgarian I prefer "УИР" (UIR - Universalen Izkustven Razum) which encompasses both, instead of "УИИ" (UII - "Intelekt"). One of the simple practical reasons is that "УИИ" (UII)...

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AGI in Prime Time on Bulgarian National Television - "Beautiful Science" Show, First Episode | Универсален изкуствен разум по БНТ - "Красива Наука" #1

А live shot from the first sessiion on the set on Tuesday, a day before the recording of the first show. This moment was aired in the end of the prime time news on Bulgarian National Television.A shot from the show Rossen explains how Kevin Warwick connects biological neurons to an artificial cybernetic system.The letters on the top: (C,B) --> (L, R, m, M) --> (...) mean:(Coordinate, Brightness) --> (Length of reccurence, compression...

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IM-CLeVER and iCub - EU Funded Projects - Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning, Abstraction of Sensory Inputs ...

Have you seen this cute little baby robot?I have heard of it, but checking the aims and basic assumptions of the project from the source pushed me - they're in the right direction and aware of the issues, Juergen Schmidhuber is being one of the leaders.Another signal that I have to discipline my ass, as well... :)http://www.im-clever.eu/project/project-descriptionIM-CLeVeR is supported by the European Commissionunder the ‘FP7 Cognitive Systems, Interaction,and Robotics Initiative’, grant no. 231722.Start: 01/01/2009 (start...

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Mathematical Theory of Intelligence - Second Course in AGI/UAI at Plovdiv University by Todor Arnaudov (Course Program in English)

Mathematical Theory of Intelligence (AGI/Universal AI) by Todor Arnaudov http://research.twenkid.com http://artificial-mind.blogspot.com The course was taught to undergraduate students between 1/2011 – 3/2011 at Plovdiv University “Paisii Hilendarski”, Bulgaria, in the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics. (Originally in Bulgarian, with a lot of additional sugguested materials in English). This was the second AGI/UAI course after "Artificial General Intelligence/Universal Artificial Intelligence" (originally: "Универсален...

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Universal Artificial Intelligence by M. Hutter, Neocortical Mini-Columns in Reinforcement Learning Context, Creativity & Virtual Worlds - at AGI 2010

Selection of recommended talks on AGI 2010 conference:Marcus Hutter - Universal Artificial Intelligence, AGI 2010Tutorial on Mini-Column Hypothesis in the Context of Neural Mechanisms of Reinforcement Learning - by Randal A. Koene, AGI 2010Related to M. Hutter - Jurgen Schmidhuber notices that reinforcement learning needs many steps, many decision points, and marks compression progress as an abstract form of reward for cognitive processes:Jurgen Schmidhuber-Artificial Scientists Artists Based on the Formal Theory of Creativity,...

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News: Official AGI Journal and Independent AGI E-zine

I've been considering founding a sort of independent journal for AGI, where to give some more "formal" shape of works of Boris Kazachenko, myself and other independent researchers, it might be called just "e-zine". [ It was "formally declared" a month later here. ] It seems there is an official Journal created already http://journal.agi-network.org/ with a solid Editorial Board.However it got a problem - it's not allowed to submit already published stuff. There are some AGI ideas and suggestions published or shared on-line...

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HyperNEAT in Neural Networks and Ontologies in NLP - Why They Seem Promising?

1. HyperNEAT Exerpts from the site (bold - mine):"In short, HyperNEAT is based on a theory of representation that hypothesizes that a good representation for an artificial neural network should be able to describe its pattern of connectivity compactly.This kind of description is called an encoding. The encoding in HyperNEAT, called compositional pattern producing networks, is designed to represent patterns with regularities such as symmetry, repetition, and repetition with variation. (...)The other unique and important facet...

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Proposal for Directed/Guided Evolution of a Cognitive Module/Algorithm by Step-by-Step Modification of a Basic One - from Archicortex to Neocortex

This is a direction I realized last year during a discussion on Boris' knols and mentioned there, but later I shortened the comment there, because it wasn't the appropriate place for the detailsThe idea is about designing cognitive algorithm achieving properties that Boris proposes, however grounding it and deriving it on a supposedly simpler and easier to understand cognitive algorithm that has existed before in lower species and was slightly modified by evolution.Keywords: embryology, comparative neurobiology, embryogenesis,...

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