i meant programs that reason about the code you give them.
I did too. If a program can reason like that, unless it only works in a
very small domain, you've created AGI.
----- Original Message -----
From: "rooftop8000" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 12:22 PM
Subject: Re: [agi] rule-based NL system
i meant programs that reason about the code you give them.
but never mind
--- Mark Waser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> we want computers to
> understand natural language because we think: if you know the syntax,
> the semantics follow easily
Huh? "We" don't think anything of the sort. Syntax is relatively easy.
Semantics are AGI.
> do any programs like this exist already?
Uh . . . no . . . because any such program which worked would effectively
*be* AGI.
----- Original Message -----
From: "rooftop8000" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 4:21 AM
Subject: Re: [agi] rule-based NL system
> we already have programming languages. we want computers to
> understand natural language because we think: if you know the syntax,
> the semantics follow easily. you still need the code to process
> the object the text are about. so it will always be a crippled NL
> understanding
> without general intelligence behind it.
>
> the thing about NL is: we can interpret words in many ways.
> the word "walk" can mean: the act of walking, a walk you took
> yesterday,.. etc
> The point is that the computer tries out different meanings, and NL
> allows
> this to happen by having many possible meanings and inaccuracies
>
> why not try this on programimng languages. " t = Object new() " or
> "make a
> new
> object and put it in the variable t" or " new object in t ". Now make a
> program
> that can freely decide what to do with this
> -make t a global variable.
> -make t a Car variable
> - decide to keep the old value in t in some memory
> ...
> it's easy to parse programming languages (unlike NL), but not how
> to understand the semantics and reason with it/understand it in a
> flexible
> way
>
> do any programs like this exist already?
>
>
>
>
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