On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 10:55 PM, Steve Richfield <[email protected] > wrote: Everyone in AGI seems to want to start at the front end (parsing) without knowing where they are going.
It is difficult, for me at least, to follow these threads and make up my mind if you agree or disagree with each other, if you made up your own minds at least etc. But Steve seems to include again and again some inaccuracies. Specifically, I am not ready to count even a single failure of NLP or AGI-NLP since the systems I am familiar with have tried everything except the most obvious (and difficult): to model agents with a mix of intricate biased and unbiased world models and intentions. Language without a minimum of two mental worlds and one "objective" world is nothing but mad ramblings. Similarly, several of the AGI builders of the day, myself included, started away from parsing and closer to either the mental worlds and/or the objective one(s), and Ben for example is not in a hurry to focus on the front-end. Shame on us I'd say, since after decades of publications on summarization, disambiguation etc it was a 17 year old who cashed in his summarization service. As Steven mentioned before, the world could be a different place if a few of us here had multimillion dollar liquidity. Then again, Yahoo slapped us all in the face by withdrawing Summly, presumably suggesting we are a bunch of losers and can neither improve upon nor match Summly's achievements in reasonable time. Or can we? AT ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
