On Dec 26 Ben Goertzel said:
>> One basic problem is what's known as "symbol grounding". this
>> means that an Ai system can't handle semantics, language-based
>> cognition or even advanced syntax if it doesn't understand the
>> relationships between its linguistic tokens and patterns in the
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From: "Shane Legg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, December 27, 2002 7:48 PM
Subject: Re: [agi] Language and AGI (was Re: Early Apps)
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> I guess people continue to do AI with languages like English
> because that is what is of practical use
Shane,
I agreed with the wording in your earlier post more ;)
It is true that learning Esperanto would be easier for an AI than learning
English or Italian.
However, I think that if you had an AI capable of mastering the
syntax-semantics-pragmatics interface [the really hard part of language, a
I suspect that Esperanto will not be much more difficult to tackle
than any current existing language, or at best a *tiny* bit easier.
The greatest difficulty of language is not grammar, or spelling,
punctuation, etc. To get an AGI to the point of using _any_ language
"naturally" on the level hu
Seriously, how would current state of the art voice recognition software grok
this conversation?
cheers,
Simon
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You must read this aloud (for the full effect). Just say any unfamiliar
words phonetically. It's amazing, you wi
I've always considered the whole world/universe as one big database. A system
that narrows its focus to a partial set of knowledge contained in say, a
computer database, will be excellent when performing within the realm of which
that database was created.
Everyone needs to start wearing microp
Kevin wrote:
> We often intelligently use things we do not understand. Computers,
> automobiles, our brains, quarks, and so on. Why can't an AGI use words it
> does not actually understand, so long as it uses the word properly and
> accomplishes the desired result?
I think it's fine for an AG
From: "Cliff Stabbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, December 27, 2002 6:11 AM
> I suspect that Esperanto will not be much more difficult to tackle
> than any current existing language, or at best a *tiny* bit easier.
> The greatest difficulty of language is not grammar, or spelling,
> punctua
At 06:11 27.12.02 -0500, Cliff wrote:
>...
>I suspect that Esperanto will not be much more difficult to tackle
>than any current existing language, or at best a *tiny* bit easier.
>The greatest difficulty of language is not grammar, or spelling,
>punctuation, etc.
Esperanto is still too complica
Friday, December 27, 2002, 5:15:40 AM, Shane Legg wrote:
SL> One other thing; if one really is focused on "natural language"
SL> learning why not make things a little easier and use an artificial
SL> language like Esperanto? Unlike like highly artificial languages
SL> like logic based or maths ba
Alan Grimes wrote:
According to my rule of thumb,
"If it has a natural language database it is wrong",
I more or less agree...
Currently I'm trying to learn Italian before I leave
New Zealand to start my PhD. After a few months working
through books on Italian grammar and trying to learn lot
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