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Artificial Intuition

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I scanned through the artificial-intuition.com site and still can't tell what it is. It sounds like usual machine learning (no theory or first-order logic, instead identifying (possibly nonlinear) correlations between variables). The marketing-speak makes it difficult to tell how their method compares to other well-known ones. At the point, it seems like their biggest achievement is in PR (Artificial Intuition is a great name!) but if someone has any specifics, I'd love to know.

You can learn a lot more of the high level parts of the theory by watching the videos at http://videos.syntience.com and by reading http://monicasmind.com . We're not using "usual machine learning" techniques. We use a fusion of several Model Free Methods. The result of the learning is functional but opaque, so there is no "identifying correlations between variables". And the A-N site is not "marketingspeak" . It's a serious attempt to convey the high level points of the theory to those who would benefit from knowing that alternatives to the current failing paradigm exists... Researchers that are struggling with something that doesn't work and students entering the field. We are making an effort to stop the cyclic propagation of the Reductionist AI meme, which is what universities and established textbooks teach.

Looked through the blog but don't have time for the videos. From my perspective (computational systems biology), it looks like an amalgamation of ideas surrounding Complex Adaptive Systems and Statistical Machine Learning. And I really do like the way the material is presented. But, without a single equation, algorithm, result or comparison with existing methods, it's hard to tell whether there's any technical substance here.

Please also note that as founder of Syntience I cannot speak for the other two efforts mentioned on the page. Several companies started using the term "Artificial Intuition" within a three year period. We own all the important domain names :-) and we think we have a better justification for calling it that since we can explain why we think our AN algorithm does what human intuition does.

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