On 11/30/19 5:27 PM, digikar via AGI wrote:
I am a third year student pursuing a Bachelors in Computer Science and
Engineering, and have been wanting to get into AGI, since, two years
may be. I discovered OpenCog, and felt it to be too daunting - like I
think I'll require another year or two of study to make good sense of it.
I studied some first language acquisition the last summer (along with
a basic Andrew Ng's ML course, another NLPwDL CS 224n from Stanford,
and a more rigorous and exhaustive (than the Ng's anyways) Foundations
of ML at my own university). Reading about first language acquisition
led me to believe that a primary problem is being able to represent
the world (with as much details as possible, since dealing with block
worlds is easy). So, this is the primary issue.
Recently, I spent some time with Natural Semantic Metalanguage, and
its criticisms. The concept is definitely ambitious; however, that
definitely doesn't seem to be the way our thoughts work. For instance,
see explication for "left"
<https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/questions/29586/nsm-explication-for-left>;
for me, 'left' just evokes a direction than all the other things. May
be, it might be useful for actually representing the world in a
computer, but an explicit simulation (with which I haven't worked with
yet) seems more wieldy.
I found SOAR ambitious and more "established" - however, their forums
<https://soar.eecs.umich.edu/forum> seemed void. So, just wanted to
know if anyone is working on it.
I found the question interesting, and I would be happy to reply to it
privately.
Unfortunately, there is no private email to reply to.
My email adress is in my signature and inn my web page.
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