I added the home page of Clausen
Profit Systems, Inc. to my home page (a spam send-up).
Enjoy ;-)
Also, had a conversation with pfh about AI. "Godel, Escher,
Bach" / "Metamagical Themas" promotes the idea that
creativity is the ability to find something that is relevant
(which is rather loosely defined). This sounds about right
to me. For example, thinking up a joke in conversation, or
just coming up with a new idea. But there seems to be a
difference between this, and, say reading, where you have to
come up with the relevent meaning from text. But perhaps it
is the same thing... (they're both HARD problems from a
computational point of view)
Open question: is finding a relevant object the same as
pattern matching? Or is pattern matching the equivalent of
determining if something is relevant, given the object and
context?
Also, methinks good music composition (i.e. good by my
standards ;-) is AI complete. Good musicians come up with
material that is "new", in the sense that you don't get
bored of it, because it sounds like something you've heard
before. Yet, it's still similar (eg: same instruments,
similar tone, etc.) to what came before. (Here's a paradox:
good music must be different, yet it must be the same).
Anyway, I think coming up with new things is linked to
finding something that is relevant (as I waved my hands
about, above).