Actually that's a nice answer -- so having coded Yes and No, maybe should emerge ;) ... ben g
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 8:53 AM, A. T. Murray <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/303/212726-11ac2389 > 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
