Ben Goertzel wrote: > 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, [...]
[Somehow I do not yet have the BenG response in my e-mail inbox, so I am replying to a switch from JAR.] Yesterday when I was "clumsily" coding the new retroactive KB-adjustment feature for AGI handling of terse Yes/No responses from human users, I kept typing into the AGI "boys play games". Meanwhile, I had installed a routine to make the AGI turn all plural-verb input into an AGI output question with the subject switched automatically to robots: "DO ROBOTS PLAY GAMES". Then each time I entered "no" and pressed [RETURN]. The AGI Mind went back to the assertion of the question -- whether robots play games -- and filled a "jux(taposition)" tag with the identifier for the "NOT" concept. Then I made sure that the AGI made a statement of what it now knew: "ROBOTS DO NOT PLAY GAMES". Since I was running out of time on 22jun2011 to code the "yes" train of operation, I was glad to see that entering "yes" as an answer let the assertion "robots play games" remain in KB memory by default as a piece of knowledge -- although properly such a procedure is actually in error, because the "yes" answer should be making a mere assertion change into an affirmed fact. Assuming, therefore, that I did finish the code for the yes-answer, an answer of "maybe" would simply get recorded in the AGI memory as an adverbial episode (Robots maybe play games) and not as either a (yes) affirmation of the idea or a (no) negation of the idea. Does the above maybe answer your question? TIA, ATM -- http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/AiMind.html ------------------------------------------- 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
