Actually, the sound of language isn't just a subtle thing - it's
foundational. Language is sounds first, and letters second (or third/fourth
historically).
And the sounds aren't just sounds - they express emotions about what is
being said. Not just emphases per one earlier post.
You could in principle have a logical approach to sounds - and deciding
which sounds should be attached to given words - albeit there can be a vast
variety of accents, dialects etc. - and then individual styles of speech.
But your chances of attaching sounds successfully would be the same,
presumably, as being able to understand that the same melody is being played
on very different instruments (something someone else here recently referred
to) - extremely low.
Doesn't anyone discuss the problem of hearing (written as well as spoken)
as well as reading language in processing it? It's a huge omission, if not.
YKY/MT:
YKY : Logic can deal with almost everything, depending on how much effort
you put in it =)
"LES sanglots longs. des violons. de l'automne.
Blessent mon cour d'une langueur monotone."
You don't just read those words, (and most words), you hear them. How's
logic going to hear them?
Google translates that into English as:
"The long sobbing violins of autumn hurt my heart with a monotonous
languor."
Believe me, an AGI is potentially capable of appreciating the sounds
of the verse and other such nuances. I won't go into the details, but
the input sentence would be represented as a raw sensory event, and it
is up to abductive interpretation to derive its meanings. That means,
the AGI would understand it superficially as "The long sobbing
violins... etc", but augmented with other logic formulae that convey
other nuances.
You're talking about some very suble effects and that's not my focus
right now. Right now I'm focusing on simple and practical AGI. Your
stuff is potentially solvable by logic-based AGI, but I won't be
spending time on it now.
YKY
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