Wednesday, November 14, 2012

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News: TILT - Efficient Rectification (Texture-Pixel-Based 3D-Like Perspective and other) by Microsoft Research - and the SIGI-AGI Prototype and Research Accelerator News



I've discussed about the must-be simplicity of 3D-scene-and-light reconstruction, back in the 1/1/2012 article about Optical Illusions, and later on the AGI-List*, and I see it very soon coming en mass.

"TILT" by Microsoft is yet another demonstration of this coming... :X

The RGB-D sensors (such as Kinect and ASUS Xtion) that are getting cheap and popular are also a jump to that direction, they make 3D reconstruction trivial.

In the last two months I've been also directing my mind into visual-vision-images R&D for pracical developments in computer vision, graphics (my Twenkid FX studio video editing/visual effects and general movie production) and on the 3D-texture-light-reconstruction, but I've been slipping and spreading into many other more general branches, for example mathematics, physics, philosophy and even some... music.

I hope I won't be too late, but the true beginning of the implementation of my first SIGI-AGI-prototype is also approaching, I'll show it when it's ready to do impressive job. :P

Some of the system's purposes will be immediately practical and aiming to be useful as a product.

It might be the smart mind behind an old project of mine, I planned to implement a little bit of it back in 2008 as a Master's thesis, but I was too busy and eventually ended up doing something else, i.e. described my 2004's Text-to-speech synthesizer "Glas" and proposed many improvements and an entirely new architecture. That's another project that I wish to improve and make that new architecture. For example that old version is still in use for reading out loud materials for me.

I've called that old advanced project "Research Accelerator" in some old posts, because it's supposed to help general research (all domains), it's also an "Intelligent Operating System".**

A few somewhat related systems/approaches/directions (quite not fully similar, though):


  • Microsoft's agent - "Personal Assistant"

  • (see: about 35 minute), and PSearch.


  • Google's "Google Now"


  • The research field of "Intelligent Environments" is also related to what my AGI prototype is supposed to deal with, e.g. activity recognition.
    See for example: Fine-Grained Kitchen Activity Recognition using RGB-D

    Activity Recognition in Pervasive Intell...


    * I've talked about some obvious 3D-reconstruction clues even in the 2004's "Universe and Mind 4", and everybody knows them, but they are not consciously accessible to most people.

    ** Windows 7 has a function for smart prefetch of applications expected to be started by the user soon - "superfetch". My intelligent system is supposed to do, too, but in more general "superfetching sense". In general, that direction of predictive doing of things is obvious and everywhere, prediction is in the core of my theory of intelligence as well and prediction is in the essence of computing in general.

    *** AGIRI AGI List

    I've spent more efforts that I should in explanations of important concepts on the AGIRI AGI List from time to time, but I feel sorry afterward... :D The extent to which I do is a waste of time, especially since the ones who seem not to get it just doesn't get it, no matter how precise the explanation is. However I believe a lot of the materials are pretty detailed and useful if you're interested in AGI and want to learn.

    They deserve a "digest", something I've promised long ago - well, I'll do when I can, some day. If it doesn't happen soon, it may come in the next 5-th part of my old series of big works.


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    Friday, November 2, 2012

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    Nietzsche is a XIX-century Transhumanist... - Философът Фридрих Ницше е трансхуманист от 19-ти век...

    Have you thought about that? :)

    The concept of Superman (Übermensch), one to whom current humans are like the apes to humans.

    Check his work for yourself, right from the beginning: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1998/1998-h/1998-h.htm

    I won't discuss the work as a whole, the "new moral", and Nazi's abuse of the term "Superman".

    I care for Nietzsche's "Superman" from a transhumanist point of view: a superman in cognitive and functional sense.

    The "dead God" and the creation of a new god is the advent of science and technology, the work had apparently been influenced by the then-new evolution theory of Darwin.

    The "creation of God" is the "singularity", the ultimate advent of technology and the creation of either cyborgs, DNA-or-whatever enhanced humans, and a self-improving general intelligence/AGI/AI.

    Zarathustra seems to crave for fast progress and criticizes the sluggishly developing society and  humanity. I sympathize with him on that point - people are not aware of the unexpected technology that is coming very soon and will make a lot of the current things obsolete and archaic. I've shared some thoughts about the absurd archaism in some human activities, and their end in the form they exist now*, I will explain more in a dedicated work.

    Enjoy! :)

    ---
    * Of course, there's a chance that people would reject some of the technologies which will make other technologies absurd and obsolete and would make the people to question their-own superiority etc., I think it's in fact likely to happen so...

    However this is so consonant with a "superhuman-human" and a "human-ape" relations. See the movie "The Planet of the Apes" (1968) and put yourself in the human's from the future shoes  - you might be intellectually and technologically superior, but your "enemy" might be yet physically vastly stronger and more aggressive than you, especially if there's a small amount of transhumanists and a huge amount of people who don't understand and don't accept to live together with thinking machines.

     History tells about such events, when barbarian hordes annihilate civilizations and societies which are centuries or a millennium ahead of them. That's one of the unfortunate possibilities if humanity rejects the technologies and the new technological species that will revolutionize their life.
     (I deliberately don't specify what exact things I'm talking about, see in a more elaborate paper.)

    By the way, recently I found that case told in a humorous SF short story of the Bulgarian writer Lyuben Dilov. Humanity gets in touch with extraterrestrial civilization, the aliens leave an ambassador on Earth. He notices that human race has a lot of social problems and has undeveloped technologies, so he shares know-how in medicine and in an uncorrupted and fair-minded political system. The humanity rejects both. The new inventions would change the corrupted system and the status-quo and would steal the power from the corrupted politicians - nobody would agree to use it. The only technology humanity accepts are books, which can fit in a bead, so they may collect them. Well, we already have those books... :)

    ** Thanks to S.  for reminding me about the "Übermensch" concept of Nietzsche, when I've spoken with him about related social aspects of the up-coming transhumanism era, compared to the current state of the affairs.

    See alsoPhilosophical and Interdisciplinary Discussion on General Intelligence, AGI and Superintelligence Safety and Human Moral | Cognitive Origins of the Concepts of Human Soul and its Immortality | Free Will and How it Originates Cognitively | Animate Being and Soul and the Cognitive Reason for the Believe that "Thinking Machines can't have a Soul and Consciousness" |  Technology  Making us more Humane | The Egoism of Humanity | And more

    Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

    3.
    ....I TEACH YOU THE SUPERMAN. Man is something that is to be surpassed. What have ye done to surpass man?
    All beings hitherto have created something beyond themselves: and ye want to be the ebb of that great tide, and would rather go back to the beast than surpass man?
    What is the ape to man? A laughing-stock, a thing of shame. And just the same shall man be to the Superman: a laughing-stock, a thing of shame.
    Ye have made your way from the worm to man, and much within you is still worm. Once were ye apes, and even yet man is more of an ape than any of the apes.
    Even the wisest among you is only a disharmony and hybrid of plant and phantom. But do I bid you become phantoms or plants?
    Lo, I teach you the Superman!
    The Superman is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say: The Superman SHALL BE the meaning of the earth!....



    Tags: philosopy, философия, Ницше, супермен, свръхчовек, трансхуманизъм, сингулярност, прогрес, научно-техническа-революция, наука, самоусъвършенстващи се мислещи машини, мислещи машини, универсален изкуствен разум; изкуствен интелект, човешки интелект; ум, напредък; маймуни, човекоподобни, Планетата на маймуните, филм.
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    Saturday, October 20, 2012

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    Yale Open University - Open Courses Done Right | Отворени лекции от Йейл - Фундаментална Физика


    Remember my post about the quasi-free courses (the trendy ones lately) which were threatening you with legal actions against you?

    Open Yale courses seem to be different: http://oyc.yale.edu/

    It's Creative Commons, therefore you can use and share for educational purposes the materials - video, sound, transcripts - without being threatened.

    I would recommend myself the Fundamental Physics courses, - excellent coverage with an excelent and very funny teacher.

    In general, the "novelty" promoted by the major online courses is somewhat false, there were online courses, tutorials, lectures, notes, solutions, help since the time materials and notes could be put "online". As the storage and bandwith allows, more images, more audio, video etc. in ever higher quality is uploaded, nothing "new" and nothing "original"there.

    The interaction with the teachers and the grading can be taken as something "new", but it's not, message boards and chat rooms with experts or email lists are the same, competitions (on programming contests etc.).

    The formal grading is not equal to a University one, and a teacher cannot really examine or answer personally hundreds or thousands of studtents - it would be an automatic tool, and the questions asked by hundreds or thousands of people on the same subject matter will undoubtely often match, you can do it on your own anyway*, with or without an embodied teacher.

    * Yeah, some people would not do anything if there's not an embodied teacher, somebody to push you to work.


    Тагове: безплатни, отворени, онлайн, електронно обучение, фундаментална, физика, Йейл, американски, САЩ, математика, CC
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    Tuesday, October 2, 2012

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    Анимация, озвучаване, актьорска игра: Озвучаване на трейлър на анимационен филм - забавно :))

    English: A funny online competition on a video sharing Bulgarian site for writing an original script (if you can, using your worlds) and voice acting over a trailer of an upcoming animated movie.

    Обновено: 14/10/2012

    Благодаря за подкрепата! :P Не ме избраха да озвучавам герой от филма, но с 32 гласа бях в челото на класирането на публиката, а също и по гледанията (от около 220-230 участници) - 10 м. по положителни гласове - и пише, че печеля комплект блестящи рекламни химикалки!!! :P

    Гласуването продължава, и виждам че хората продължават да гласуват за мен, в момента видях че имам 41 гласа (запис на: twenkid гледания: 372гласували: 55харесвания: 41). Започвам да изпреварвам директните си конкуренти. :)


    Подкрепете участието ми като сценарист и актьор в един много забавен конкурс на Вбокс7! :)

    Озвучаване на трейлър на един анимационен филм, който излиза скоро. :)

    Звукът е с лошо качество, но това е някакъв проблем с всички клипове,но дори и така е забавно.

    Гледайте, и гласувайте! :P Ако спечеля нещо, ще почерпя!

    http://vbox7.com/contests/riseoftheguardians/?page=play&user=twenkid
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    Tuesday, September 25, 2012

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    News: Mathematics, Rendering, Art, Drawing, Painting, Visual, Generalizing, Music, Analyzing

    What's going on lately?


    The second SIGI conference was postponed
    - not enough commitment from the circle.

    But I am working on making the conference more interesting when it happens:

    I've been into a Mathematical research mode lately, I started it as "Incremental Arithmetic" in an unpublished paper (shared with one person only) in 2011, some insights from 2010-2011 were around that theme. More explicitly on this - when I have beautiful results and demos. :)

    Other AGI research/observation/preparations and Neuroscience-my-theory-of-intelligence-matching - it's in parallel with the above.

    Drawing, sequential art, visual art/processing, image processing/visual effects/filmmaking software

    I've always been a "visual" person (besides all other "persons" living in me), drawing runs in the blood of my family. Drawing/painting - rendering - is useful for focusing on the details of rendering and vision, and it goes from the smallest scale of a pixel to the largest scale of scenes, viewer's position, scene composition, lightning, characters, the world where the illustrated action happens, the story of it, etc. etc... The whole spectrum of generalizing sensorimotor hierarchies. It's cool.

    I'm refreshing and upgrading my skills into a more systematic way and I'm aiming to polish my talent. One of the useful reasons is in order to render my graphical/movie stories better... :) The VFX/filmmaking software's one of the many purposes is to improve and speed up the process.

    Thanks to http://www.youtube.com/user/thevirtualinstructor for one of his lessons and suggestions,
    practiced in these drawings.  

    Vector transformations

    In another "unpublished paper" from a few months ago, which would turn into a digest one day eventually (it's a "published email discussion), I explained and shared some elegant fundamental AGI operations/generalizations which are based on simple visual 3D transformations.

    "Everything" is a bunch of vector transformations and the core of the general intelligence are the simplest representations of those "visual" representations, which are really simple/basic/general.

    And "visual" in human terms actually means just:

    Something that encompasses features and operations in 1D, 2D, 3D and 4D (video) vector (Euclidian) spaces, and the vectors in these dimensions can be of dimensionality usually of up to 4 or 5, such as: //e.g. (Luma, R,G,B)

    1D - luminance
    2D - luminance + uniform 1D color space
    3D/4D - luminance + splitted/"component" color space

    + Perspective projection, which is a vector transform, it can be represented as a multiplication of matrices - that is - the initial sources of visual data are of higher dimensionality than the stored representation, 3D is projected into 2D (a drawback of the way of sensing)/

    Also, of course, there is topology, humans work fine with blended and deformed images - curved spaces, and curves, not simple linear vectors. However the topology is induced from the basic vector spaces, the simplest topological representation is just the adjacency of coordinates in a matrix.

    The above may seem obvious, but the goal is namely to make things as explicit as possible.

    More on it - later.

    The software and music - I don't have enough time for R&D, I'll probably tell more when there are results/pieces which I can show, such as tech demos or new demo records of my music... [Edit+ 2/10/2012:] But the music will probably wait untl I finally develop one software aid for the drums and start playing with it. :)

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    Saturday, September 22, 2012

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    Extreme Futurist Festival 2012 in LA, Los Angeles USA - Фестивал на дръзки футуристи 2012 в Лос Анджелис - футурология - бъдеще - визионери

    That would be a great place for me, a pity I won't be able to visit it this year... :/ :)

    Extreme Futurist Festival 2012 Trailer from H+ Worldwide on Vimeo.



    Futurists, transhumanists, artificial, general, intelligence, events, футурология - бъдеще - визионери
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    Sunday, September 9, 2012

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    Super Smartasses - The Premiere of the new Graphical novel/series/comics/pictures/production of Todor Arnaudov/Tosh/The Twenkid





    Enjoy the first pilot episode of the "new/old" production of Tosh/The Twenkid/Twenkid Studio, written 3 years ago, but first episode completed and presented now:

    Super Smartasses
    First Episode: Companions (International Version in English)

    About "Super Smartasses" and Twenkid FX Studio
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    Monday, September 3, 2012

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    News: Comics - Multi-Platform Story Novels - Animation - Cartoon - Voice Acting - Animatic - Visual Effects Software VFX -- Upcoming Twenkid Studio Satirical Production, featuring the IT, Semiconductor, AI, AGI, Science and Everything also | Скоро - мултиплатформена продукция - комикс, озвучен, аниматик, анимация, разкази, роман, филм

    На български

    Title: S.S. (see later)
    Drawings from the first epidose:
    Deliberately not telling what's the story about.

    It's an amusing and funny satirical series, having serious/intelligent/dramatically/comically presented messages, with many characters, starting from the high-tech industry and people (semiconductors, hardware, software, automotive, aerospace, electronics, architecture, medicine ... researchers), but also spreading everywhere - sports, media, pop-culture, society, politics, celebrities, film industry, all kinds of absurds, comedy and drama, and all kinds of human relationships. It has some educational elements, too.

    AI and AGI will probably also join the stories in one funny way or another in the high-tec part.

    It have both action/strongy visual and dramatical/verbal stories.

    It's a huge Universe (in my imagination), I plan to create multi-platform stories, e.g. various kinds of media and different points of view to the stories told.

    The perfect form would be an interactive full-motion animation with sound and additional materials, textual, pictorial, sound. (Or a computer game.) Animating it as I would like to is too expensive and technologically impossible right now though, so it will start as a comics + text, a highly illustrated novel, graphical novel - whatever.

    History

     I wrote and sketched the characters, settings and the plots of about 20 episodes, some with complex plot-twist and development, some simple, as early as 3 years ago, but didn't have the time/resources to start implementing it as good as I wished. I finally started the first episode a few weeks ago. The visual quality of the pilot episode that's coming won't be as good as I wished too yet, but I hope it's fine.

    As my in-house VFX software technology improves, and I invest some more time in it to put some of the cool accelerating features in my mind, the episodes will become faster and easier to produce, and the animation will become implementable in a short time (I already have designs of how to do it, but it will take time after I start it up).

    Indeed, the first public release of my Twenkid FX Studio software is also planned to finally come...

    I don't have time to work on it lately (a long "lately" period), that's the reason it's being delayed from the start even though I've always known what to do. I am willing to make some release in the upcoming few months.

    It might not be glamorously shiny for average users in the initial releases, but it will work (it already works for me) and it's implemented with impossibly short amount of human-work-hours*. I'd say - insanely low. It's supposed to have the key features available for users even if not perfect yet, for example those:

    - chroma keying
    - rotoscope with painting and clone tools
    - matte painting
    - color corrections
    - motion tracking (stabilization/compensation trajectories)
    - particle effects (some basic stuff for a start)

    Even only this is enough to create pretty cool visuals, and these are not all features already existing or planned even for the first early public release, you'll see them when the release come.

    BTW, the matte-painting was a function of the "grand-father" of this software back in 2005, matte-painting is one of my favorite visual effects, it's so simple and yet so powerful. Generally, the principles of all visual effects are trivial and obvious, at least for anyone who has talents in visual arts - drawing, photography etc. However coding all, stitching all together in a common interface, project etc. - that's laborious, even if all you have to do is crystal clear to you.


    ...
    Regarding the graphical quality of the initial draft release of the pilot episode - it's drawn by hand with pencil, some of the pictures with a tablet (Wacom Bamboo), there are some editions and layout with GIMP, but it's mostly pencil. Some pictures are more elaborated, others are very quick sketches. There are too much frames to make all smooth and polished, I have other tasks to do too, waiting for a time-slice...

    Such as that software that is being delayed for years, and it will include functions to accelerate the production of the comics, drawing and animation, too.

    Generally, producing this is fun, and I believe it will be fun for the viewers, as long as they care for the topics of the stories told. :)

    Stay tuned and please - show your love and share the fun, if you liked it. :) Thanks.
    ..
    That below is just a small spider-man exercise from January 2012 (assisted by references in a comic book), just to show some skills:

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    Tuesday, August 14, 2012

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    Конференция: Мислещи Машини 2012-2 - Особености на провеждането | МисМаш 2012-2 | СУР | СУММ | УИР | Thinking Machines Conf 2012-2 | SIGI-AGI 2012-2


    Новини за провеждането на втората конференция
    Мислещи машини 2012-2
    (и др. имена)

    За Първата конференция за мислещи машини: от 7/2012:  Мислещи машини 2012-1 - МисМаш - СУР - СУММ - УИР | SIGI 2012-1
    • SIGI - самоусъвършенстващ се универсален разум/самоусъвършенстваща се мислеща машина - СУР - СУММ (Self-Improving General Intelligence)
    • AGI - универсален изкуствен разум - УИР - (Artificial General Intelligence)
    • Oсобености на събитието
      SIGI 2012, Part 2 / Мислещи Машини 2012-2 / СУММ 2012-2

    КОГА? -  Засега ориентировъчна дата е краят на септември, но е въможно да е и по-късно през есента
    • Безплатно - без такси!
    • Участниците могат да представят работа, но може и само да гледат/четат/обсъждат/коментират/задават въпроси и пр., ако нямат възможност или желание за участие с авторска работа. Възможно е и представяне на доклад/обобщение на множество публикации на други автори, новини и пр., което да насочи и запознае другите участници с интересни нови открития, теми и пр.
    • Няма ограничение за формата на работите/публикациите, и няма изискване да не са публикувани преди това* - могат да бъдат класически публикации (статии, papers), презентации,   видео/графични демота, звукозаписи на презентации/лекции на тяхна работа, както и дори програмен код и конкретни алгоритми, които искате да представите.
    • Няма изрични граници за обема, авторите решават, но имайте предвид, че колкото по-сложна и обемиста е представената работа, толкова по-голям "залък" може да се укаже за другите участници, и за тях може да е по-разбираемо, ако успеете да разделите работата на по-малки части. 
    • Интернет/онлайн - конференцията ще се преведе основно през Мрежата и с  телеконферентна връзка
    • Рецензията/взаимного оценяване/коментари/бележки (т.нар. peer-reviewing) ще се състои по време на случването на самото събитие (а не преди, както в стандартните конференции) между участниците, които се интересуват от съответната публикация. Провеждането ще се състои от три етапа:

      Три етапа на конференцията
    1) Участниците пращат/предлагат работи за участие
    Участниците качват своите материали/линкове към тях, като това може да са статии и/или презентации (по възможност мултимедйни, със запис на глас), видео и пр. Мултимедията прави общуването по-естествено, а това е една от целите на конференцията: да създаде истински междуличностни връзки и да подпомогне бъдещо сътрудничество и сдружаване.

    Друга цел на конференцията е да покаже по-ясно подобията и разликите между подобни и различни трудове, и да помогне на изследователи от една и съща научна/философска/мисловна школа да видят по-добре идеите си в голямата картинка на нещата.

    Може да качвате работите си където искате и/или да дадете линк: сайтове за споделяне на презентации, видео, ваш сайт, или пък на форума на общността и конференцията.
    http://research.twenkid.com/forum

    Изборът е на авторите.

    Също ако желаете може да не качвате работите си никъде (освен препоръчително да насочите поне с тема), и да ги представите директно в "реално време" при третия етап, но така другите ще са по-малко подготвени и въпросите им може да не са толкова добри, колкото биха били ако имаха време да проучат по-добре работата ви.

    2) Успоредно с първия етап тече вторият - има период от време, в който участниците могат един на друг да четат, изучават, рецензират и пр. материалите, тогава когато имат време и т.н.
    Участниците могат да отбележат интереса си към дадена работа и да задават въпроси предварително - но авторите не са длъжни да отговарят веднага.

    Въпросите се събират и на тях се отговаря по време на третия етао - събирането.

    Едно от възможните места за обелязването на интерес и пр. е мултидисциплинарния и интердисциплинарен форум:
    http://research.twenkid.com/forum
    3) Третият етап, събирането, общуването в реално време е когато участниците се събират за да обсъждат материалите си по един или друг начин
    Ще се определят спрозорци за представяне и обсъждане на различните работи, в зависимост и съобразно  конкретните участници и материали. Например, ако присъстващите са се запознали с дадена работа през втория етап, представянето може може да е много кратко, колкото да се  въведе в темата, и веднага да следват въпроси и обсъждане. От друга страна, може да има и нов бърз преглед, или дори изцяло представяне - ако участникът не е качил материала си през втория етап, или другите участници не са имали възможност да го проучат сами.


    За връзка ще се използва теле-конференция и други методи, примерни технологии са Google+ Hangouts и Skype.

    Разбира се, групи от участници могат да се събират и на едно място в конферентни възли, ако има достатъчно на брой хора в даден район, които да се организират помежду си. Също така, може да се използват и всякакви други средства за обямна на съобщения, и участници с взаимен интерс да обсъждат и извън общия канал.
    • Прозорците време по време на провеждането ще се уговорят според натовареността на участниците, времевата зона в която се намират и пр.
    • Конференциите ще се състоят толкова често, колкото членовете на общността могат и искат - възможно е да има събитие на всеки няколко седмици, стига да има подходящ интерес и материали
    • Работите от предишни издание ще могат да бъдат представяни/обсъждане отново, ако има интерес от нови участници, нови идеи/разширения/забележки/въпроси и пр.**
    • Многотомни публикации/серии от работи - даден труд/работа може да бъде представен в серия от конференции, на части, за да е по-лесно разбираем от другите и да си подсигурите, че те ще му обърнат достатъчно време и ще го разберат.
    • Този документ може да бъде редактиран и разширяван своевременно :)

    Моля, отбележете интереса си, ако искате да се включите, и се свържете с мен тук, по имейла в профила ми или от http://research.twenkid.com/
    Ще ви държа в течение за организационните детайли.

    Разбира се, ще пускам обновления и в блога, но е възможно те да не съдържат всички подробности, които ще пращам лично на участниците.

    Поздрави,
    Тодор

    ...
    *  и **
    Разглеждането на материали от предни издания, и  липсата на изискване работата да не е публикувана
    Изискванията дадена статия или др. вид публикация да не е публикувана преди това, която се среща в някои издания според мен е безсмислено ограничение. (Има го напр. и в журнала на AGIRI, "официалното" издание за AGI/УИР/Универсален изкуствен разум от установени институционализирани учени.) Реликва от снобските черти на "научността".

    Не е важно дали нещо е публикувано някъде си, важно е дали читателите, към които го насочва автора, са запознати с тази работа или с гледната точка и допълненията към нея - дадени идеи и експерименти може да са публикувани не знам си къде преди 100 години, ако хората не са чували и го преоткрият, то пак ще е ново, интересно и обогатяващо за тях. С тези конференции искаме да създадем градивна общност, която едновременно да си помга и да си сътрудничи, и да се стимулира и да си съперничи, така че да получим резултати.

    *** Все пак, внимавайте какво представяте, преценявайте доколко може да влизате в технически подробности по дадена технология, дали нещо не е "фирмена тайна" за вас и пр. Целта е да си помагаме взаимно и да си подсказваме идеи, но и евентуално да създадем и старт-ъп фирми в съдружие или по отделно.


    Думи: News, Events, Artificial General Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Robots, Изкуствен интелект, Изкуствен разум, Новини, Събития, Конференции, multi, Conference, Thinking Machines, Transhumanism, Philosophy, Философия, мислещи машини, Thinking machines, Bulgaria, Bulgarian, Български, предприeмачи, изследователи, млади, учени, роботика, роботи, робототехника, БАН, Пловдив, независими, учени, Тодор, Арнаудов, Тош, Twenkid Research, start-up, Plovdiv, researchers, Intel Coop hotel, interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, Туенкид, Мисмаш-2012-2, Мислещи машини 2012-2, част втора, СУР, СУММ, УИР
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    Monday, August 13, 2012

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    Мислещи машини 2012-1 - Първа конференция за самоусъвършенстващи се мислещи машини (SIGI) и универсален изкуствен разум/универсални мислещи машини (AGI) на Независимото общество на мулти- и интердисциплинарни изследователи | МисМаш - СУР - СУММ - УИР - AGI - SIGI


    Мислещи машини 2012-1
    МисМаш - СУР - СУММ - УИР | SIGI 2012-1


    Translation in Bulgarian of:
    The First SIGI-AGI conference/multi-conference of the Independent Society of Multidisciplinary and Interdisciplinary AGI/SIGI Researchers
    In English  

    Събитието се състоя на 7. юли в Пловдив

    SIGI - самоусъвършенстващ се универсален разум/самоусъвършенстваща се мислеща машина  - СУР - СУММ (Self-Improving General Intelligence)

    AGI - универсален изкуствен разум - УИР - (Artificial General Intelligence)

    За тези, които за пръв път чуват тези термини - това е много повече от баналното "изкуствен интелект", четете този блог и материалите за курсовете ми по Универсален изкуствен разум.

    Инициатор и организатор/"председател": Тодор Арнаудов

    Много благодарности за съорганизаторите, участниците и поддръжниците на събитието!

    Съ-организатори и съ-председатели и спонсори: Александър Камбуров, Светлин Пенков и Георги Златев

    Ценна морална подркепа и участие с публикация: Др. Петър Кормушев

    Съорганизатори и участници: Даниел Ангелов, Орлин, Ангел

    За конферентна зала използвахме хотела с живописното име "Интел Кооп" :D Колко жалко само, че нямахме късмет да осигурим спонсорство от Интел Ко., в хотела не открихме нито един официален представител на компанията*... ;)


    Работните езици на SIGI 2012-1/МисМаш 2012-1 бяха български и английски. Участниците бях международни (учещи, работещи или имащи някакъв вид делови или научни връзки с Великобритания, Италия, САЩ и България), но всички бяхме българи. Част от презентациите бяха на английски, но ги представяхме и говорихме на български.

    Очаквахме 4-5 участници в повече, но по различни причини не можаха да се включат сега - чакаме ги в следващите издания, които ще бъдат толкова скоро, колкото успеем да се организираме и ще има по-гъвкава форма и ще е по-отворена за международно участие, с нулеви и близо нулеви разходи. ** (Виж новини за SIGI 2012-2 или на англ: 




    http://artificial-mind.blogspot.com/2012/08/news-sigi-2012-2-software-art-comic.html

    http://artificial-mind.blogspot.com/2012/07/news-sigi-2012-2-second.html

    http://artificial-mind.blogspot.com/2012/07/news-sigi-2012-1-first-sigi-agi.html

    ...



    SIGI 2012-1 -  Пловдив,  България, 7/7/2012 

    SIGI I
     SIGI #1
    МисМаш 2012-1
    СУММ 2012-1

    СУР 2012-1

    УИР

    Програма
    Роботика
    Компютърно зрение
    Машинно Обучение/Учене с подсилване






  • Dr. Peter Kormushev et al.:  Learning the skill of archery by a humanoid robot iCub  (off-line, with a paper, presentation and a video) - Робот стрелец, учене с подсилване, компютърно зрение
  • Светлин Пенков: Inferring the Position of a Robot’s ‘Ground Plane’ by Real-Time Observation of a Ball Rolling over a Surface - also a sort of a little workshop/introduction to ROS (Robot Operating System) and OpenCV
  • -- Разпознаване на равнината на "земята" в реално време, чрез наблюдения на търкаляща се топка - роботика, компютърно зрение



  • Светлин Пенков  and Daniel Angelov - Their contribution in line-tracking robots, including an artificial neural-network module for learning tracks
    -- Техен принос към роботи, следящи линия, включва невронно-мрежов модел за обучение
  • Повече детайли в оригиналната статия на англ: ...(...)

    Сетивно-моторни обобщаващи йерархии

    Етични философски въпроси и проблеми на УИР/СУММ и трансхуманизма
     



    Тодор - представих накратко някои точки от принципите на парадигмата на обобщение от моите трудове и от школата, към която принадлежат те, и обсъждах етични въпроси -- беше накратко, ще продължи в следващото издание....

    Имаше много неформални дискусии...

    ...Благодаря на участниците, и до нови срещи!...

    (...)

    PS2. Форум: AGI/SIGI forum

    ...

     * The Intel humour is not intended to offend anyone, it's a funny coincidence. Intel is registered trademark in the USA, but "Интел Кооп" (Intelcoop) is apparently also such - in Bulgaria, in Cyrillic. :) I hope one day Intel Co. hosts or sponsors an event of ours... :)
    ...

    Думи: News, Events, Artificial General Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Robots, Изкуствен интелект, Изкуствен разум, Новини, Събития, Конференции, multi, Conference, Thinking Machines, Transhumanism, Philosophy, Философия, мислещи машини, Thinking machines, Bulgaria, Bulgarian, Български, предприeмачи, изследователи, млади, учени, роботика, роботи, робототехника, БАН, Пловдив, независими, учени, Тодор, Арнаудов, Тош, Twenkid Research, start-up, Plovdiv, researchers, Intel Coop hotel, interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, Туенкид
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    Monday, August 6, 2012

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    News: SIGI-2012-2 | Software | Art | Comic Strip | Sport | Rock Music

    Before the SIGI 2012-2 conference, (SIGI 2012, Part 2)

    Interest from coorganizers/sponsors

    SIGI-AGI-Transhumanism Conference & Festival

    Well - there are indications of such from one serious international organization, based in Bulgaria, that is promoting science, research and researchers. My proposals was for combining a conference with a festival, talks and demos for general audience, and they seem to be interested. It will take time to organize it, and perhaps it's gonna be during the 3-rd or 4-rd edition of the conference - I want the community to gain some experience in the conferences anyway.


    Interest from the AGI List

    In the search of participants, that was one of the places I sent an invite and it seems that there's zero interest from the regular participants in "the only official" AGI email list. I see the list itself is declining and the content is getting more and more disappointing in most of the messages. Inarticulate, high-level blah-blah, people don't learn anything from each other, repeat-repeat-repeat, apparently don't want to collaborate, a lot of them seem to be incapable anyway.

    Software

    Todor's Twenkid FX Studio, Visual Effects, Video Editor, NLE, Movie Making, Audio Editing, Post-production


    I've been practically frozen the film and media making software for long time because of lack of time, lately have revived it and pushing new features. I'm still busy mostly with "pre-essential" stuff, the real effects in prototype and planned mode, because of a lot of "pre-essential" coding and design have also to be done...

    The real effects and alpha-beta versions for the first users are approaching, and some crucial movie-making visual effects will be there as early as those versions, and that will be a framework and a basis for some other software projects of mine.

    See some demos here or there, and also all my clips/movies (media blog) youtube posted online after October 2010 are edited and composited using that piece of software.
    (Sorry the web site is not being updated regularl and there are no specs for the features yet. That page will be made good when the software is published for users.)

    Other projects

    There are such, some of them big ideas for useful applications from long-long time, waiting their time for implementation and serious work. I won't explain details yet, only that it's AI-AGI-intelligent software. And I may contribute to a partner company's projects.

    Art - Comic Strips - Voice Acting

    Comic Strip, Voice Acting, Animation, Comedy, Satire
    A satirical comic strip that I wrote and sketched about 20 episodes of about 3 years ago... It was postponed until I find time to render it well. I'm pushing myself to draw at least a few episodes to ignite it, so: look forward about it, it's gonna be a satire. I wished to animate it, or at least make some kind of animatics with voice acting, let's see.

    The Electric Guitar and Rock Music


    Unfortunately I had some time without real practice, but reviving that fun. Not really trying to find the guys and girls for my band yet, but it will happen when I really push it... :) The later - the better guitarists I'm supposed to get, but better I don't postpone it too much further! I wished I played also the drums, I would have done if I had a drum set, I can't justify spending that amount for a toy for pure fun for now, though. :)) And it would have to be electronic as of now, which would be less fun... :) Well, the drum-machine is of course a part of the movie-making software of mine (yet not implemented), I may have to get satisfied by it for now for my demo performances...  



    Words: After effects
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