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 ----- 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/?member_id=231415&user_secret=e9e40a7e
