On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 8:32 PM, Derek Zahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > One more bit of ranting on this topic, to try to clarify the sort of thing > I'm trying to understand. > > Some dude is telling my AGI program: "There's a piece called a 'knight'. > It moves by going two squares in one direction and then one in a > perpendicular direction. And here's something neat: Except for one other > obscure case I'll tell you about later, it's the only piece that moves by > jumping through the air instead of moving a square at a time on its > journey." > > When I try to think about how an intelligence works, I wonder about > specific cases like these (and thanks to William Pearson for inventing this > one) -- the genesis of the "knight" concept from this specific purely verbal > exchange. How could this work? What is it about the specific word > sequences and/or the conversational context that creates this new "thing" -- > the Knight? It would have to be a hugely complicated language processing > system... so where did that language processing system come from? Did > somebody hardcode a model of language and conversation and explicitly insert > "generate concept here" actions? That sounds like a big job. If it was > learned (much better), how was it learned? What is the internal > representation of the language processing model that leads to this > particular concept formation, and how was it generated? If I can see > something specific like that in a system (say Novamente) I can start to > really understand the theory of mind it expresses. >
Generating "concepts" out of thin air is no big deal, if only a resource-hungry process. You can create a dozen for each episode, for example. A more challenging task is to arrange so that all these concepts actually lead to correct decisions, influence other concepts in a right way without destroying them. New concepts need to be "friendly" to inference system before modification. -- Vladimir Nesov [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------- 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=101455710-f059c4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
