How many billion parameters do PLN and TLCG have?

Applications of category theory by Coecke, Sadrzadeh, Clark and others in
the '00s are probably also formally correct.

As were applications of the maths of quantum mechanics. Formally. Does
Dominic Widdows still have that conference? Indeterminacy formalized in
different ways.

But saying stuff is fuzzy, top down, is not the same as resolving that
fuzziness, bottom up.

Natural language grammars drifted to probabilistic frameworks in the '90s.
Never worked worth a damn. That's why Bengio moved to NLM's in the first
place (2003?) Networks, better because... more parameters?

Now, only 20 years later... GPT-3 suggests learning parameters even in the
billions seems to improve things even more. Insight! It seems like there's
no limit to how many parameters are useful. Only problem is processing time
to list them all beforehand.... It is obvious that you need to list them
all beforehand... Right?

You can imagine how OpenAI, or some other team, may finally stumble on the
answer. They'll be pinched for budget, and finally decide it is stupid to
spend $12M calculating 175 billion parameters in advance. When most of them
will never be used. At some point some bright spark will suggest they
calculate relevant parameters at run time.

When they do that they may find they stop worrying about how many
parameters they have. Because they will just be focused on finding
the parameters they need, when they need them.

The actual parameters will be found by some form of existing known
meaningful relationship: permutation, transform, causal invariance... Easy
stuff. Done now. Just the insight will be to do it at run time so they
don't need to worry about how many there are (they may even be surprised to
find they need to be able to contradict.)

>From that point symbol binding will be solved, and they'll be free to build
any kind of logic they want on top.

-R

On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 3:38 PM Ben Goertzel <[email protected]> wrote:

> Contradictions are an interesting and important topic...
>
> PLN logic is paraconsistent, which Curry-Howard-corresponds to a sort
> of gradual typing
>
> Intuitionistic logic  maps into Type Logical Categorial Grammar (TLCG)
> and such; paraconsistent logic would map into a variant of TLCG in
> which there could be statements with multiple contradictory
> parses/interpretations
>
> In short formal grammar is not antithetical to contradictions at the
> level of syntax, semantics or pragmatics
>
> It is true that GPT3 can capture contradictory and ambiguous aspects
> of language.  However, capturing these without properly drawing
> connections btw abstract patterns and concrete instances, doesn't get
> you very far and isn't particularly a great direction IMO
>
> ben

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