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- From: ken@iat.holonet.net (Ken Easlon)
- Subject: Re: Compressing decimal expansion of pi (was Re: PI)
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- References: <1992Dec30.172613.26270@cs.ucf.edu>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 04:05:22 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec30.171752.26109@cs.ucf.edu> ,
- long@next1.acme.ucf.edu (Richard Long) writes:
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- >In order to REALLY compress, say, an arbitrary movie, the compression
- >algorithm would need to extract objects and object properties...
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- I think the exact objects resulting from such REAL compression would depend
- on who would be using the final compressed file. There's a lot of stuff
- in the background that's just noise to most people, but what's noise to one
- person might be a vital piece of data to another.
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- Even if the data compression program were especially written for me,
- there's a lot of things I might once have been interested in, but that are
- just noise at the present.
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- I would suggest that the ultimate compression would result in a file
- exactly one bit long (She loves me, she loves me not. Should I or shouldn't
- I), but the bit only has meaning for a particular question (or decision, or
- program branch).
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- >.. the task of creating an intelligent machine may be nothing more than
- >creating a universal data compressor.
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- If the sole function of intelligence were to answer questions, I would
- agree. However, I think intelligence requires not only answering
- questions, but ultimately doing something with the answers, like surviving,
- growing, evolving, etc.
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