Mike: I wrote my last email in a rush. Basically what I was trying to explain is precisely the basis of what you call creative process in understanding words. I simplified the whole thing a lot because I did not even consider the various layers of mappings - mappings of mappings and so on.
What you say is correct, the word art-cop will invoke various ideas, amongst which art - which in turn will evoke art-exhibit, painting, art-criticism, and whatever else you want to add. The word cop in analogy will evoke a series of concepts, and those concepts themselves will evoke more concepts and so on. Now obviously if there were no 'measuring' system to how much concepts are evoked among each other, this process would go no-where. But fortunately there is such a measuring process and simplifying things a lot, it consists of excitatory and inhibitory synapses, as well as overall disturbance or 'noise' which after so and so many transitions will make the signal lose its significance (i.e. become random for practical purposes). Hope this is not too confusing. I'm not that great at explaining my ideas with words :) Jim & Vlad: that is a difficult question because it depends a lot on your database. Actually Marko Rodriguez has attempted this in a program that uses a database of related words from the University of South Florida. This program is able to understand very simple analogies such as Which word of the second list best fits in the first list? bear, cow, dog, tiger: turtle, carp, parrot, lion Obviously this program is very limited. If you just need to just search words correspondence, I'd go with Vlad's suggestion. Otherwise there is a lot to be implemented, in terms of layers, inhibitory vs excitatory connections, concept from stimuli and so on..What strikes me in AGI is that so many researchers try to build an AGI with the presupposition that everything should be built in already, the machine should be able to resolve tasks from day 1 - just like in AI. That's like expecting a new born baby to talk about political issues! It's easy to forget that the database we have in our brains, upon which we make decisions, selections, creations, and so on.. is incredibly large.. in fact it took a life-time to assembe. ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=108809214-a0d121 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
