Richard Loosemore wrote: > > Arthur, > > Can it represent negatives? ATM: Yes. http://mind.sourceforge.net/negsvo.html is the negation module.
> Time? ATM: Yes. http://mind.sourceforge.net/variable.html#t is the time "t" variable. However, the variable has no correspondence with actual time. On the other hand, at the outset of a run of the AI program, and at each time when the user Tabs into Transcript mode, the AI reads the Windows system clock for the time and date. Therefore, the AI is capable of having an "innate" sense of time, right on down to the hour, minute and second. > Textures? Not yet, because textures must be part of a robot sensorium. > Relationships? Yes, that is what the AI Mind is all about -- establishing relationships between entities as mediated linguistically by verbs. > Distinguish homonyms from context? I believe so, because the current AI uses ASCII characters, not phonemes. > Represent the concept of a homonym? At this stage, I am not sure. > Represent itself? The AI has a concept of self or ego, so that words like "you" and "me" and "I" are directed properly to the concepts of self or "other" as necessary in the I/O stream. > Can it handle deixis? Since I have a degree in ancient Greek and briefly attended U Cal Berkeley graduate school in classics, I know that "deixis" from "deiknumi" means "pointing" or "showing," and so I must admit that the AI is not far enough along to "show" things. It is an implementation of the simplest thinking that I can muster -- a "proof of concept" program. > > More importantly, do you have any principled reason > for claiming that it will soon be able to handle any > of these things, other than your statement of optimism > "If robot builders were to add sensory and motor > routines to Mind.Forth, the AI would flesh out its > conceptual knowledge and interact with the world."? ATM: I don't claim how "soon" or how "not soon," but http://mind.sourceforge.net/sesorium.html is where I point out that the addition of multisensory inputs will allow the build-up of conceptual knowledge so that the AI will actually know what nouns refer to. As the AI is now, it only knows the relationships among the concepts in its knowledge base. http://mind.sourceforge.net/motorium.html invites locomotion. > > So far, what you describe looks like something I wrote > in Basic on a Sinclair Spectrum computer in 1982. > > Richard Loosemore > It would most likely be extremely difficult if not impossible to port Mind.Forth into circa 1982 Sinclair Spectrum BASIC. Thank you for the astute questions. Sincerely, Arthur T. Murray -- http://mind.sourceforge.net/mind4th.html http://mind.sourceforge.net/m4thuser.html ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
