On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 05:24:36PM -0700, Matt Mahoney wrote: > --- "YKY (Yan King Yin)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Although it is possible to "fully integrate" NL into AGI, such an endeavor > > may not be the highest priority at this moment. It can give the AGI better > > linguistic abilities, such as understanding human-made texts or speeches, > > even poetry, but I think there're higher priorities than this (eg, learning > > how to do math, how to program, etc). > > Computers are already pretty good at math.
I think YKY might have meant "the kind of math that mathematictians do". > But I think before they can write > or debug programs, they will need natural language so you can tell them what > to write. Otherwise, all you have is a compiler. At least human programmers > learn to speak before they can write code. Yes. I want to be able to talk to the thing. I ave, for example, used a program that does group theory (branch of math), and it is very very hard to use because its .. obtuse. I can't talk to it the way that I'd talk to anothre human. --linas ----- 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=8660244&id_secret=60655266-bb250d
