--- Richard Loosemore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When a computer processes a request like "how many teaspoons in a cubic > parsec?" it can extract the "meaning" of the question by a relatively > simple set of syntactic rules and question templates. > > But when you ask it a question like "how many dildos are there on the > planet?" [Try it] you find that google cannot answer this superficially > similar question because it requires more intelligence in the > question-analysis mechanism.
And just how would you expect your AGI to answer the question? The first step in research is to find out if someone else has already answered it. It may have been answered but Google can't find it because it only indexes a small fraction of the internet. It may also be that some dildo makers are privately held and don't release sales figures. In any case your AGI is either going to output a number or "I don't know", neither of which is more helpful than Google. If it does output a number, you are still going to want to know where it came from. But this discussion is tiresome. I would not have expected you to anticipate today's internet in 1978. I suppose when the first search engine (Archie) was released in 1990, you probably imagined that all search engines would require you to know the name of the file you were looking for. If you have a better plan for AGI, please let me know. -- Matt Mahoney, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------- singularity Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/11983/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/11983/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=4007604&id_secret=98631122-712fa4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
