Jim: I consider the ability to intelligently transform a pure declarative statement into an action to be a necessary goal-seeking ability for an AGI program. The program has to wisely or correctly learn that a particular part of a statement can be correlated with an action.
Just so. And how are you going to correlate the concepts of language with the real world extremely complex courses of action that they denote – e.g. PICK UP THE BOX. EAT THE PIZZA. COME OVER HERE. PUT THE CHAIR OVER THERE. LET’S HAVE A CONVERSATION. GO TO THE KITCHEN. These concepts have to be instantiated in complex courses of action in an infinity of possible versions of the relevant situations. The objects referred to - boxes, chairs etc - could be in very diversely configured fields. The courses of action referred to can be extremely elaborate multi-step courses of action which are merely *encapsulated* but in no way *itemised* by the concepts, and have to be creatively patched together. Even the most basic language – the most basic vocabulary - is extremely complex in reference and instantiation. How are you going to correlate even the simplest language concepts with the complex embodied, robotic actions that they all require?.. and all without a body? LOOK .. COME... GO... TAKE... PUT... LIFT... GIVE ME.... ? Understanding language – correlating it with action – is vastly different from NLP. ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
