[to continue..!] You understand language if you can not just GO TO THE KITCHEN on one occasion, but do so on endless new occasions - and GO TO THE ROOM/SITTING ROOM and a thousand other comparable interrelated places/journeys.
And each journey will be new and different (even if sometimes modestly so) from previous journeys, not simply a formulaic variation on the last. And that actually is what humans/real world agents do do - we do endlessly reinterpret basic language statements/instructions - COME OVER HERE, GET THE MONEY, OPEN THE CASE, PACK THE CASE On 12 August 2013 20:41, tintner michael <[email protected]> wrote: > Let me rephrase what I said to Steve because it was awkward and not as on > the ball as it could be. > > AGIers - AFAIK - are all proceeding on the basis that language > understanding means arriving at the one right meaning for any sentence or > piece of language Language is convergent > > It's the opposite - language understanding is creative/ convergent -and > that means you must be able to endlessly reinterpret any piece of language > - endlessly come up with new executions/instantiations. > > You understand language if you can not just > ------------------------------------------- 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
