He's focusing on micro-level things they did wrong, but not confronting the possibility that making a huge handcoded KB is just the wrong thing to be doing...
For instance he notes they have had to add 75 kinds of "in" to handle different sorts of "in" relationship ... but doesn't question whether it might be smarter to have the system instead learn various shades of "in", which could allow it to learn 1000s of context-specific senses not just 75 ... ben On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 1:30 PM, Linas Vepstas <linasveps...@gmail.com> wrote: > The below is an old presentation, from 2009, but its the first I've seen of > it. Its long, I have not read it yet. However, I suspect that it probably > says good things (I hope; else that would be something else that CYC did > wrong...) > > http://c4i.gmu.edu/oic09/papers/Mistakes%20Were%20Made%20OIC%202009%20keynote.pdf > > Everyone working on opencog theory should probably read it and memorize it > and apply those lessons to the things we do. > > Thanks to Lukasz Stafiniak for pointing this out. > > --linas > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "opencog" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to opencog+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to opencog@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/opencog. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/opencog/CAHrUA369vqLVG7xEx5vVS%2BASqtaKMNSVBc7S3rdxdU8gGgEFOQ%40mail.gmail.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Ben Goertzel, PhD http://goertzel.org Super-benevolent super-intelligence is the thought the Global Brain is currently struggling to form... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "opencog" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to opencog+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to opencog@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/opencog. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/opencog/CACYTDBfej%2Bn9u6%3DSjVcZ5JOUjHo%3DG86EVRMiqu9PNP0SRXyTyg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
