On 8/23/06, James Ratcliff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is one of the main concepts / problems of AI, is it not? Removing the ambiguity from our language in order to understand it. So you could remove it on the KR side, but you would still need to convert the regular language into the KR l
This is one of the main concepts / problems of AI, is it not? Removing the ambiguity from our language in order to understand it. So you could remove it on the KR side, but you would still need to convert the regular language into the KR language, unless you would propose to have all inputs and ou
I continue to maintain that:
* syntactic ambiguity is unnecessary in a language of thought or communication
* some level of semantic ambiguity is unavoidable and in fact essential...
ben
On 8/20/06, YKY (Yan King Yin) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 8/19/06, Ben Goertzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> w
On 8/19/06, Ben Goertzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In "blackboard" the NL word maps to either "a board that is black in color"
> > or "a board for writing that is usually black/green/white". The KR of those> > concepts are unambiguous; it's just that there are 2 alternatives.> > This is very
In "blackboard" the NL word maps to either "a board that is black in color"
or "a board for writing that is usually black/green/white". The KR of those
concepts are unambiguous; it's just that there are 2 alternatives.
This is very naive... a concept such as "a board that is black in
color" is
On 8/19/06, Ben Goertzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, but I can generate a hypothetical grounding for "mushrooom pie"> on the fly even though I haven't seen one ;-)
> > And I can form concepts of mathematical structures that I have never> experienced nor exemplified and may in fact be incons
Well, but I can generate a hypothetical grounding for "mushrooom pie"
on the fly even though I haven't seen one ;-)
And I can form concepts of mathematical structures that I have never
experienced nor exemplified and may in fact be inconsistent and not
even exist...
Not all concepts are formed i
On 8/19/06, Ben Goertzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > The problem of context may be avoided by using an unambiguous language (for> > internal representation). Context-dependent words are a feature of natural> > language (NL) only. It arises when an NL word maps to multiple concepts in
> > the
