Ben: Are you interested in translating LRRH into Novamente's KR, as a demo?
Not really... Here's the thing: Novamente's KR is very flexible... So, one could translate LRRH into Novamente-ese in a way that would sorta resemble "Cyc plus probabilities, with some higher-order functions and pattern-intensities too" But, that wouldn't be likely to closely resemble the way LRRH would wind up being represented in the mind of a Novamente instance that really understood the story. So the exercise of explicitly writing LRRH in Novamente's KR would likely wind up being not only pointless, but actively misleading ;-) While I do think that a probabilistic logic based KR (as NM uses) is a good choice, I don't think that the compact logical representation a human would use to explicitly represent a story like LRRH, is really the right kind of representation for deep internal use by an AGI system. An AGI's internal representation of a story like this may be logical in form, but is going to consist of a very large number of uncertain, contextual relationships, along with some of the crisper and more encapsulated ones like those a human would formulate if carrying out the exercise of encoding LRRH in logic. It is for this reason, among others, that I find Cyc-type AI systems a bit misguided (another main reason is their lack of effective learning algorithms; and then there's the fact that the absence of perceptual-motor grounding makes it difficult for a useful self-model to emerge; etc. etc.) -- Ben G -- Ben ----- 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
