Another important lesson from SHRDLU, aside from discovering that the approach
of hand coding knowledge doesn't work, was how long it took to discover this.
It was not at all obvious from the initial success. Cycorp still hasn't
figured it out after over 20 years.
-- Matt Mahoney, [EMAIL PRO
Richard Loosemore wrote:
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This is a question directed at this whole thread, about simplifying
language to communicate with an AI system, so we can at least get
something working, and then go from there
This rationale is the very same rationale that drove researchers into
Blocks World