Sorry yes you're right, I should and would not call Schank's approach discredited (though he does have his critics). FWIW I think he got much closer than most of the GOFAIers i.e. he's one of my old school AI heroes :) I thought for a long time his approach was one of the quickest ways to AGI and I still think anyone studying AGI should definitely study his approach closely. In the end any would-be AGIst (?:) will have to decide whether she adopts conceptual primitives or not - probably, apart from ideological arguments, mainly on the basis of how she decides to (have her AGI) ground its/his/her concepts (or not, as the case may be). Personally I'd say that a lot of mental acts do not reduce to his primitives easily (without losing a lot in the translation, to paraphrase a good movie:) and mental acts are quite important in my AGI architecture. Just personal opinion of course. =Jean-Paul
>>> James Ratcliff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 06/05/07 9:19 PM >>> I wouldnt say discredited, though he has went off to study education more instead of AI now. Good article on Conceptual Reasoning http://library.thinkquest.org/18242/concept.shtml His SAM project was very interesting with Scripts back in '75, but for a very limited domain. My project has the ability for a KR to contain multiple scripts describing a similar event to allow reasoning and generalization of simple tasks. James Ratcliff Mark Waser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> list readers should check old discredited approaches first Would you really call Schank discredited or is it just that his line of research petered out? ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?&; _______________________________________ James Ratcliff - http://falazar.com Looking for something... --------------------------------- Sick sense of humor? Visit Yahoo! TV's Comedy with an Edge to see what's on, when. ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?&; ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=231415&user_secret=e9e40a7e
