On Monday 11 June 2007 08:12:08 pm James Ratcliff wrote:
> 1. Is anyone taking an approach to AGI without the use of Symbol Grounding?


Symbol grounding is something of a red herring. There's a whole raft of 
philosophical conundrums (qualia among them) that simply evaporate if you 
take the systems approach to AI and say "we're going to build a machine that 
does this kind of thing, and we're going to assume that the human brain is 
such a machine as well."

On the other hand, the trend to building robots in AI can be a valuable tool 
to keep oneself from doing the hard part of the problem in preparing the 
input for the program, thus fooling oneself into thinking the program has 
solved a harder problem than it has.

Josh

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