Congratulations! Next, how will you handle "Maybe"? ;-)
... ben On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 2:35 AM, A. T. Murray <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Ben, > > Yesterday on Tues.21.JUN.2011 I had a conceptual breakthrough > in my Mentifex AGI programming and I wanted to tell you and > yours about it, but it would have frustrated everybody if I > described the new AGI technique without implementing it in > software for purposes of demonstration. > > Accordingly today I have _just_barely_ implemented the > probably patentable but now simply "prior art" idea at > http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/AiMind.html for MSIE. > > Here are the two changelog entries which describe the advance: > Wed. "22jun11A.html" implements retroactive KB adjustment for Yes or No. > Wed. "22jun11B.html" generates negation of sentence after input of "no". > > For several years I was worried about how the > Mentifex AGI Mind would deal with human user input > of simply "Yes" or "No" in response to a question > issued from the AGI to the human user, such as, > "Do robots play games"? > > We humans deal constantly with single-word inputs > of "Yes" or "No" or "maybe", etc. It's like a > toggle of information. But how can an artificial > Mind react to Yes or No as we humans do? > > Yesterday morning it suddenly occurred to me > that the question coming from the AGI is actually > a skeletal idea in itself, one that needs confirmation > with a "Yes" answer, or refutation/negation/denial > with a "No" answer. It also was suddenly clear > how to implement the exciting innovation in > AGI software. So today I rather clumsily coded > the new AGI feature in JavaScript, and next I > need to code it in Forth so that I can improve > the JavaScript. > > Since a question like "Do robots need food?" > is the most immediate thought just generated > in the AGI Mind, it is right there ready to > be handled _retroactively_ in the software. > > If the human user answers "No" to a question > from the AGI Mind, my software now attaches > a negational flag to the verb-concept of the > question being dealt with. If the user answers > "Yes", right now the affirmative idea is the > default condition, but of course I need to > pin it down and allow for divergent answers > such as "maybe" or "probably". > > This coding of retroactive knowledge-base > adjustment is unusually tricky and complex > for me, because the new functionality is > actually at least three things happening > all at once. Just getting the AGI to pose > a Yes/No question is one software dilemma. > The train of digesting "No" is a second part, > and the default train of "Yes" is a third. > > Meanwhile I have been following the various > AGI and Singularity discussions, and I feel > rather strange because I am coding one AGI > innovation after another in the AGI Mind. > > http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/AiMind.html > has been getting typically > > 28 hits /~mentifex/AiMind.html > from 21/Jun/2011:14:14:17 > to 22/Jun/2011:22:06:59 > > according to the user logs, from all over > the world. It makes me feel motivated to > keep working, but the sprawling AGI program > is getting almost too complex for one coder. > > Is it worth while to code AGI? Yes? No? > If the AGI asks, I will respond "Yes"! > > Bye for now. > > Arthur > -- > http://cyborg.blogspot.com > > > ------------------------------------------- > AGI > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/212726-11ac2389 > Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > -- Ben Goertzel, PhD CEO, Novamente LLC and Biomind LLC CTO, Genescient Corp Chairman, Humanity+ Adjunct Professor of Cognitive Science, Xiamen University, China Advisor, Singularity University and Singularity Institute [email protected] "My humanity is a constant self-overcoming" -- Friedrich Nietzsche ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/8660244-d750797a Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=8660244-6e7fb59c Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
