On 5/18/08, Stephen Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > For the others on this list following my progress, the example is from a set of essential capability descriptions that I'll use to bootstrap the skill acquisition facility of the the Texai dialog system. The subsumption-based capability matcher is done. I'm writing Java code that implements each of these capabilities. That should be completed in a few more days, and then I'll fit that into the already completed dialog system. At that point I should be able to begin exploring what essential utterances will be needed to acquire skills by being taught, and generate Java programs to perform them.
This is a good step towards program synthesis, but I guess "real" programming requires reasoning processes more sophisticated than subsumption of pre- and post- conditions. My system (I'm working on the prototype of it) uses exclusively declarative knowledge, so it would be more suitable for simple commonsense reasoning rather than program synthesis. The latter will require building up program-related concepts from the ground up. That will be a long term goal, and a challenging one. If you use the Behavioral Language, one problem is that the procedural knowledge is separated from the declarative knowledge -- the 2 parts may have no connection at all. The problem with my approach is that reasoning about programs may be very expensive as it requires many commonsense steps. YKY ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=103754539-40ed26 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
