From the New York Times today ... This is perhaps pertinent to Peter
Voss's notion of dog-level intelligence ;-)
ben
Research Shows Dogs Can Learn Words
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: June 10, 2004
WASHINGTON (AP) -- As many a dog owner will attest, our furry
We are not going for 'dpg-level intelligence' per se -- rather, roughly best
cognitive abilities of various animals human infants.
Actually our current 'phase3' specs already include Alex's (The Parrot)
abilities. Also, I don't see any particular difficulty with our current
design/ system
Peter,
I agree that simply learning mappings between names and objects is easy,
and doesn't even require a system as sophisticated as yours is.
The slightly more interesting example of reasoning mentioned in this
article was:
When there were N toys in a room, and the dog knew the names of N-1
Hi Peter,
Clearly, any particular example of learning can be achieved via some
combination of simple mechanisms. What characterizes intelligent living
organisms is that they can carry out a whole bunch of examples of
learning-types, without being specifically tuned or trained for each one
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