On 2/27/08, Ben Goertzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > YKY< > > I thought you were talking about the extraction of information that > is explicitly stated in online text. > > Of course, inference is a separate process (though it may also play a > role in direct information extraction). > > I don't think the rules of inference per se need to be learned. In > our book on PLN we outline a complete set of probabilistic logic > inference rules, for example. > > What needs to be learned via experience is how to appropriately bias > inference control -- how to sensibly prune the inference tree. > > So, one needs an inference engine that can adaptively learn better and > better inference control as it carries out inferences. We designed > and partially implemented this feature in the NCE but never completed > the work due to other priorities ... but I hope this can get done in > NM or OpenCog sometime in late 2008..
I'm not talking about inference control here -- I assume that inference control is done in a proper way, and there will still be a problem. You seem to assume that all knowledge = what is explicitly stated in online texts. So you deny that there is a large body of implicit knowledge other than inference control rules (which are few in comparison). I think that if your AGI doesn't have the implicit knowledge, it'd only be able to perform simple inferences about statistical events -- for example, calculating the probability of (lung cancer | smoking). The kind of reasoning I'm interested in is more sophisticated. For example, I may ask the AGI to "open a file and print the 100th line" (in Java or C++, say). The AGI should be able to use a loop to read and discard the first 99 lines. We need a step like: "read 99 lines -> use a loop" but such a step must be based on even simpler *concepts* of repetition and using loops. What I'm saying is that your AGI does NOT have such rules and would be incapable of thinking about such things. YKY ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=95818715-a78a9b Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
