On 3/9/07, Charles D Hixson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You aren't requesting it of the person, you're requesting it of the AI. In other words, you are insisting that the AI demonstrate more capabilities (in a restricted domain, admittedly) than an average person before you will admit that it is intelligent.
*shakes head* This isn't _about_ "admit it is intelligent" as far as I'm concerned. I don't care who admits what, the whole area of philosophical debate about whether AI is theoretically possible is something I moved on from years ago. This is about what subgoals are the most likely to result in the production of useful software. A fairer request would that it sketch a few scenes from the story (with
text annotations indicating what they were supposed to represent). At this you are already requiring mastery of skills not normally attained by 4 year olds. (Well, not if the characters are supposed to be recognizable.)
I don't care about being fair to computer programs, or about what 4 year olds can or can't do. Sketching a few scenes would be a possible way to go, certainly. You'd need to be careful not to be tempted to hack an ad-hoc solution, or to apply standards of artistic quality that would make it actually harder than an animation, but it would definitely be a much more fruitful line of research than trying to rely purely on language. ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?list_id=303
