From: "Al seckel" To: "Jeffrey Epstein" <jeevacationggmail.com> Subject: Re: For your careful consideration Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2010 22:42:24 +0000 That will work. I spent some considerable amount of thought, at a fairly high level, to do specific targeted wording that would leverage into big gains along your lines of thought. To also show that you have thought deeply and knowledgebly about many lines in the hard sciences.... it does not make you look bad, just better, deeper, broader. It is important to use words correctly and avoid vague ones... For example, in terms of Al, to switch it to "common sense" is not at all meaningful. "Common sense" is too vague a phrase. For example, people can build competent machines now, they can do the task you want, but the trouble with the Al approach is that they are not "intelligent," they can't self-adapt to new situations as outlined in 2 and 3 of the Al section I outlined. That is the main problem with the current approach of Al... They keep building gagets, so what.... The better search algorithms for mathematical theorems and proofs would be enormously helpful. This is quite different, of course, from what Stephen has tried to do with Wolfram Alpha. He has not been able to do it. Humans can still check complex proofs and theorems far better humans. This would be an enormous breakthrough in science. Same thing for better search algorithms for mathematical knowledge. Google is good at data searches, but not smart knowledge searches. I have tried to come up with new lines of thought in all these areas that I am somewhat familiar with, although some people I am sure, and know, are working in them, but they really are not well traversed.... Also, I was a little perplexed that you removed some things that you had originally put in your notes to me, but I put in their correct form and phrasing. So, that is confusing to me. You also removed other material you originally proposed. There were also lines of tho