What is the name of your system Aaron?
~PM
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 21:16:12 -0500
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [agi] Re: Superficiality Produces Misunderstanding - Not Good
Enough
Ok, "implemented" is the wrong word, since it's still evolving. "Accounted for"
is a better choice.
I too have a very healthy respect for the complexity and subtlety of human
thought. This project grew in large part out of an extreme dissatisfaction I
feel towards traditional approaches that make too many assumptions and breeze
past too many important aspects of the problem. I do my best to hold myself
accountable to the broad scope of the problem by looking at the most difficult,
awkward examples of human behavior and capabilities.
In language things like puns, idioms, incomplete sentences, inline corrections,
etc. Many of these are not implemented as yet, but I have restricted myself to
design choices that provide a clear path forward to their implementation. When
I come across new, strange things, I force myself to modify my design until
they start to make sense. Things can remain unimplemented, but they cannot
remain unexplained.
In this way, I hope to move towards a solid foundation of understanding that
encompasses the full spectrum of language and thought, not just a toy system
that works off of unfounded assumptions and oversimplifications. If my concepts
of how language and thought can't explain everything I stumble across, they're
inadequate, and I refuse to leave them unrevised.
I'm learning a lot as I build, and on more than one occasion I've scratched &
started over because of some subtle flaw that initially went unrecognized. The
positive side is that each time I do this, my system becomes more robust and is
easier to implement, the latter mainly due to experience and familiarity on
those portions not being redesigned from the ground up. The latest revision was
to properly work in the distinct behavior of determiners versus quantifiers,
since (taking a mathematical analogy a bit far) determiners act more like named
constants and quantifiers act more like re-bindable variables. I'll get there
eventually, but I'm not cutting myself any slack or taking any shortcuts.
-- Sent from my Palm Pre
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AGI
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