When you are trying to find information on the web statistical methods make a lot of sense. Right? You cannot keep every detail from every web page for your web search engine so what do you do? You turn to some kind of methodical sampling and rely on statistics to organize an index into the millions of samples that you have collected. I'm right right? So I guess it does make sense to imagine a sampling and a statistical indexing of other kinds of experience for an artificial mind. But it doesn't make sense to believe that deep insight will emerge directly from this association between the statistical sampling of words and the statistical sampling sensing the objects and events denoted by the words. Why do I say this? Because it has never been verified through experimentation. If this theory was true then it would be easy for IBM to show it working with AI/AGI systems which combined visual imagery with text processing. Where are the results? Why hasn't IBM created a Watson-AGI that relied on the combination of statistical visual processing with statistical text processing? Eventually statistical methods will be used effectively in AGI. But that won't happen before some missing algorithms are discovered. Statistical Indexing has worked better than I thought it has but the search engines still do not have much in the way of sentence recognition - in spite of a web of words, images and sounds. I used the question, "how to create AI," in a search and the top find was a website that had the title, "How to Create Artificial Intelligence In Your Spare Time". The statistical based interpreter knew that one of the meanings of AI was Artificial Intelligence. It was the breadth of the web that provided a reasonable result. (I am not recommending the webpage but it was an appropriate result.) Jim Bromer
> Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2013 12:12:30 -0500 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [agi] Connection between language and movement > > > http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-07-words-actions-cerebral-language-movements.html > > Interesting. This reminds me of what I wrote > in the first paragraph of: > > http://hplusmagazine.com/2011/03/03/when-future-watsons-play-politics/ > > > > ------------------------------------------- > AGI > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/24379807-f5817f28 > Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ------------------------------------------- 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
