[wplug] OT: AI

[Patrick Weber]

You may find that the topic of Genetic Algorithms may interest you.  They
have long been a topic of AI research and have some fun aspects to them.
Basically what GA's do is take a series of parameters and "mutate" them to
use the biological term.  Then it "breeds" these parameters to produce
outcomes.  The outcomes that most closely resemble what you want are then
selected, mutated and bred again.  What this does is "evolve" your
parameters for your data in a similar way that monkeys evolve into people.

For your situation you could use your set of parameters and run it through a
genetic algorithm until it meets the regressions that you currently have.
Then you can use what evolved to make predictions... This is just a thought.

AI is a broad topic of computer science research that has yeilded some
interesting algorithms.  AI is not a thing unto itself however.  My personal
definition: "Non-deterministic code that behaves intelligently within the
domain for which is was intended"

-Pat Weber

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris" <vze2f6h6 at verizon.net>
To: "'General user list'" <wplug at wplug.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 9:04 AM
Subject: RE: [wplug] OT: AI


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> > Behalf Of Bill Moran
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> > Chris wrote:
> > > I have been trying to find out more about AI the past week
> > but haven't
> > > been really able to find what I am looking for.  I am hoping that
> > > someone on this list might have at least some experience
> > with it.  I
> > > think that the problem is that I am not sure that AI is what I am
> > > looking for.  I want an app that will be able to look at a couple
> > > different regression lines, look for patterns, and make predictions
> > > based on those patterns.  I haven't been able to decide if that's a
> > > good fit for AI or just some good old probability and stats.  Does
> > > anyone have some insight for me?  Feel free to contact me off-list
> > > because this is OT.  Chris.romano [at] verizon [dot] net
> >
> > IMHO, the biggest problem with AI is that the term "AI"
> > doesn't really mean anything.
> >
> > So, the real question (if you ask me) is more involved with
> > what you really need the code to do, and whether or not it's
> > been done before.  If there are existing algorithms to do the
> > interpolation you need, use them.  If not, you'll likely have
> > to develope it yourself, and if it's impressive enough,
> > someone will probably call it AI.
> >
> > Just my extremely biased opinion.
> >
>
> Well, I don't know if there are existing algorithms or not.  I want to do
> this as a little project for myself.  I am sure that in the beginning that
> it will be a simple algorithm (if I am developing it), but I guess it will
> need to some what learn and change based on new patterns and the addition
> of other factors that will influence it.  In my previous example that
> would be things like the money supply and interest rates.  I guess that I
> have a lot of reading a head of me.
>
> Chris Romano
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