"an AI system consisting of many modules has to have one canonical format for
representing content" WHY?
In a modern operating system that consists of a huge number of component parts,
there is no one data representation. There must be a consistent interface
between the modules for them to work together but definitely not a single data
representation.
Each type of representation has plus/minus depending on the domain where used
so why compromise on one represetation when you don't need to?
----- Original Message -----
From: Russell Wallace
To: agi@v2.listbox.com
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 10:24 AM
Subject: Re: [agi] Logical representation
On 3/13/07, Mark Waser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Human-readable is an interesting term . . . . Is a picture human-readable?
I think that you would argue not (in this context, obviously).
Well, a picture is (in some domains) human-readable - and I think tools that
display certain kinds of information in picture format will be essential. But
it's not human-maintainable, and there are a lot of things it's simply not
suitable for.
All of the things that you name as non-human-readable certainly can be
converted (albeit, extremely inefficiently) to a human readable format
(sufficient to reproduce the item in question with no further information --
given sufficient time).
The issue isn't machine time, it's that an AI system consisting of many
modules has to have one canonical format for representing content, so that the
modules can work together; so versatility is a key virtue. Vector of floats for
example is a perfectly good format for early stages of vision processing - it
can easily be converted into a human-readable picture. But it's not a good
representation for most other purposes. I'm suggesting predicate calculus (or
some variant thereof) is the best all-round candidate for a canonical format.
Arguably, the *only* human readable format is a human language (in which
you can then explain predicate calculus, SQL, and XML as well as everything you
label as non-human-readable).
Well, the chosen format also has to be machine-readable, so as always we have
to compromise.
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