Well, animal languages are not languages in the same sense as human languages... We humans don't really know them very well, and it seems to me that they would be VERY hard for an AI to use effectively unless that AI were embodied in a close simulation of an appropriate animal body. Animal language has got to be heavily dependent on situatedness...
About phoneme-based rather than text-based NLP, that is a better idea than using animal languages (in my view)... there could be something to it. Having thought about it a bit before, however, I do not see any really significant pragmatic advantages. If you could say in detail what you think the advantages would be, I'd be curious to find out... ben > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Simon McClenahan > Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 1:45 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [agi] Linguistic DB > > > Would it be easier for a computer to learn a less complicated animal > language like dog, whale, dolphin, etc. If a database was created from > animal languages, maybe then we could also translate animal language to > human language and back again. Hmm. > > How did human language evolve anyway? Surely we just have a more > sophisticated set of phonemes we can utter along with the intelligence to > create a grammar after constant repetition as babies? This is why I am > thinking a phoneme-based NLP system would be more practical than a > text-based one. Add some visual feedback to learn body gestures along with > the sounds would probably help too. > > cheers, > Simon > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, December 27, 2002 3:01 PM > Subject: [agi] Linguistic DB > > > > I've always considered the whole world/universe as one big database. A > system > > that narrows its focus to a partial set of knowledge contained in say, a > > computer database, will be excellent when performing within the realm of > which > > that database was created. > > > > Everyone needs to start wearing microphones and ear-pieces for the > computer to > > communicate to you with. What's the longest time it could take > to develop > a > > human-computer communication protocol, 20 years? I need to attach one to > my 6 > > month old daughter now, before it's too late! > > > > Heard about this DB yet? > > http://www.infoworld.com/articles/ap/xml/02/12/16/021216apfastalk.xml > > > > > > cheers, > > Simon > > > On the other hand, if a system learns something through > reading out of a > DB, it > > > doesn't > > > have this surround of related things to draw on, so it will > be far less > able to > > > adapt and build > > > on that thing it's learned... > > > > > > My view is that a linguistic DB is not necessarily the kiss > of death for > an AGI > > > system -- but I > > > don't think you can build an AGI system that has a DB as its *primary > source* of > > > linguistic > > > knowledge. If an AGI system uses a linguistic DB as one among many > sources of > > > linguistic > > > information -- and the others are mostly experience-based -- > then it may > still > > > work, and the > > > linguistic DB may potentially accelerate aspects of its learning.. > > > > ------- > > To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your > subscription, > > please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > ------- > To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate > your subscription, > please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?[EMAIL PROTECTED] > ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?[EMAIL PROTECTED]
