-Caveat Lector- You are on the right track and such people are extremely rare. That means you are a "target" (for discrediting, ignore-tactics etc.) by the Technolords and Technopriests. Read "The Psychology of Everyday Things" by computer scientist/psychologist Don Norman on the psychology and psychopathology of everyday things. Then ask yourself why Don Norman, now a professor at Northwestern, won't try out the modern teaching machine which is capable of rendering the college-level teaching of computer programming, obsolete. He has replied by email (see IMP list archives) that he doesn't want to put himself out of a job.
On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Damon Richter wrote: > In news:internal.ml.new-age.ctrl, Adam Ness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted > on Mon, 29 Mar 2004 08:04:54 -0800: > > > Squad helps dog bite victim > > Red-hot star to wed astronomer > > Helicopter powered by human flies > > Once-sagging cloth diaper industry saved by full dumps > > America pushes bottle up Iraqis > > > > Obviously, each of those sentences can have at least two, if not more > > meanings. Humans have enough knowledge about the world to decided that the > > squad wasn't helping the dog bite people, or that the red hot star was a > > celebrity rather than an actual celestial body. A computer doesn't have that > > knowledge though, and can't interpret those sentences correctly. > > Well, those aren't really grammatically correct unless you're Tarzan or > an Indian Chief. I think the languaged used would have to be literal. > And debugging might be even easier. The software could simply report to > the programmer, "I don't understand this sentence" and highlight the > appropriate statement. The programmer would examine his sentence and > find a better way to word it. You got it. Again, have a look at the IMP archives. Why should we spend our time writing NLPs to built the confusion and stupidities of the English language into English-speaking computers? Why not just use the sub-set of English which is clear and logical. It exists. And it wouldn't be that the computer > requires very strict adherence to a set of rules, which is the problem > with current programming languages, but the sentences used would have to > be literal and grammatically correct, and the spelling would have to be > correct, too, but we already have spell checkers. We already have > grammar checkers, too. Google on the work of Professor David G. Lowe at UBC on object-recognition from local scale-invariant features. If a robot can recognize objects in its surroundings, then it is easy to teach it basic point-and-tell language. Next build some basic logic around that point-and-tell language. The words of basic logic mean the same to a machine as they do to us. Words like and, or, not, if-then are nice natural language words just begging to be put into NLP. That gives you the start on "Robo-speak". Spend a little quality time (lots of TLC) with your pc or robot and you can build up its language capabilities from there. > > Additionally, passive voice is often difficult for computer natural language > > systems. > > > > "Could you open my file for me?" be answered with a verbal "Yes" or by > > opening the file is the most simplistic example, but I'm sure this > > intelligent crowd can come up with some better examples. > > The computer could be told to operate in "polite mode" which would accept > an asking as a commmand. Statements beginning with "Would you" or "Could > you" or "Can you" would be executed based optionally on an assumption > that if the human unit is asking if a file can be opened, then he > obviously wants it to be opened. > > Those who like to feel powerful can operate in standard command mode. > That way, the computer would interpret "Could you open my file for me" as > a question about its ability to open the file, and the computer would > respond with "Yes". If the human really wants the file opened, he would > say, "Computer. Open my file." He could name the computer anything if > he doesn't want to sound like Captain Picard all the time. "Computer. > Your name is now Jason. Jason. Open my file!" > > ...your file is opened. > > "Jason! Open the letter I wrote last night to Mother." > > Well, if there's no indication of who your mom is in the filename, then > the computer would search all files created by your word processor last > night. If it can't find a reference to "Mom" then it would reply, "I > can't seem to find that file. Can you be more specific?" Hey, a > computer that can interpret English should certainly be able to speak it > in a conversational manner. > > The most depressing part about this conversation is the fact that I > listened to an archived Coast to Coast AM show with Alex Jones of > Infowars as the guest. Good grief! If everything he's talking about is > really happening, I'd be surprised to see 6 GHz Athlon CPU's on the > market. You have to be careful to proceed very slowly with the development of Robo-speak. Otherwise you tangle yourself in new verbal knots which replace the existing ones of our language. ZG www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! 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