I think it would be fairly easy to create an artificial language that looked something like a natural language and which could be used to program a computer to work with ideas about the world. There would be programming problems, but the artificial language would be able to attain the diversity (within its domain) that can be created with programming. So a text-based artificial language like the one I am thinking of would not draw pictures (unless that facility was added to it) but it would, I am contending, be able to deal with any kind of knowledge that can be discussed fairly reasonably.
What is wrong with this idea? A person is able to figure out some things for himself without being specifically programmed to figure those things out. If a computer program lacked this ability then the full description of a situation might be so complicated to make it infeasible to communicate it to the program. The computer program running the artificial language would have to be able to figure some things out for itself, but if those things would tend to constitute narrow classes of kinds of situations then it would be weak AI. So is that the real problem in getting more general AI programs going? An AGI program has to be able to figure some things out for itself in creative ways that are not narrowly constrained by constrained IO data object typing. Jim Bromer ------------------------------------------- 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
