Do you think you could write a program to parse the email you just wrote? Do you think you could write a program to translate it into another language?
Language evolved to be efficiently learnable on a very complex, embodied, 1 petaflop, 100 TB parallel computer, whose software took 3 billion years to write, after being fed training data over a 1 Gb/s sensory input channel for several years. Are you surprised it's a hard problem? On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 10:17 PM, Jim Bromer <[email protected]> wrote: > I am convinced that it would be easy to get a text-based Learning-AI > program learn to respond in fairly simple ways to simple texts. (And > I will be in a position to try it out in the near future.) The > question is whether this kind of ability has to be at the expense of > an ability to integrate more sophisticated kinds of learning into it. > > I just do not see why people have not produced solid examples of > simple learning using text-based AI unless the problem was either that > they felt they needed to impress the skeptics or they became > confounded by their own, more complicated use of language. > > Simple language does not have to be at the level of a programming > language. I think that programming languages are "context free" > because even though the apparent context may seem to violate the > context of the substrings taken separately, any particular string > (that is any grammatical string) will still only generate one > particular output. > > So a computer could (genuinely) learn about simple strings that might > not be context free and use them to generate different points. As > long as this was kept relatively simple it should be completely > feasible and it might be a good starting point to examine what was > going on. (Even though a text only AI program would not be capable of > applying its knowledge in a sophisticated way, it could still > constitute genuine learning in my opinion because it would be able to > learn new things within the domain of the text-based interactions.) > > So even though my data management system is neither simple nor > sophisticated, I believe that I will be able to use it for simple but > somewhat sophisticated kind of learning which would be general within > the limits of the domain of text. > > Jim Bromer > > > ------------------------------------------- > AGI > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/3701026-786a0853 > Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com -- -- Matt Mahoney, [email protected] ------------------------------------------- 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
