On 12 September 2012 15:36, Ben Goertzel <[email protected]> wrote: > > http://goertzel.org/WholeBigOpenCogDiagram.pdf > > So I got to thinking about the "Magic Happens Here" part of the diagram, and I think maybe it got left out of the diagram.
So, for example, I was recently thinking that I could use MOSES to automatically learn new link-grammar parse relations. Now, it doesn't explicitly have to be MOSES that would do the learning; I suppose that many modern-day, reasonably competent learning systems might do the trick: they would need only to be able to do some basic modelling of the innards of a black box. And it doesn't have to be link-grammar either: some other reasonably flexible NLP system would do. As it became clear as to how to hook these two up, so as to learn new rules, I also thought about what it couldn't do ... and realized that I'd need some other variants and modifications to handle those cases. So, my plan went from hooking up the two things, to realizing that I would need to hook them up in three distinct ways. Each different way handles a certain generic kind of learning problem, but with a different focus and a different output/outcome. And I started grasping that in fact, maybe there are 4 or 5 or 6 different other situations to deal with. And at that point, it gets out of hand -- all of a sudden, I need to manually handle a bunch of different learning tasks. Each task may take months to code up and make operational. And what if there are more than 6? That's when I realized that, in fact, I have a meta-learning problem. That is, what I really need is a system that can learn how to learn specific learning tasks. *That* is the "Magic happens Here" bubble. At the moment, I have no clue how to do this meta-learning. But I do know where to start: experimental trial and error. Go ahead, hook up moses to link-grammar. See what happens. Plug the holes, See if a general pattern or paradigm emerges. If, after much work, some meta-pattern becomes apparent, then, well, that was the magic part. After that .. who knows. But one cannot find out, until one starts trying to build these things. --linas ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-c97d2393 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-2484a968 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
