How many tablespoons in a cubic parsec is a quite amusing and unexpected question to have been solved. But wait a minute... Isn't that a calculator question? If you are trying to awe and scare me with this Halloween factoid, it is not going to work. Jim Bromer
On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 8:36 PM, Matt Mahoney <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 9:31 PM, Jim Bromer <[email protected]> wrote: >> Matt Mahoney <[email protected]> wrote: >>> What do you figure it will take to solve NLP, in terms of computing >>> power, training data, and coding effort? Or are there some fundamental >>> research questions you have to answer first? >> >> I have no idea. I believe that using controllable experimental >> platforms that can demonstrate advances is the best way to continue >> advancing even if the advances are incremental. However, there are >> times when you have to jump to try a different theoretical model. >> >> I thought you were going to ask me something about P=NP when I first >> started reading your comment. > > No. I guess you stopped working on the P=NP problem. I think that's a > good idea because there are more productive approaches. > > I would recommend looking at some of the historical approaches to the > NLP problem. There were hundreds of experimental programs written in > the 1960's before anyone realized how hard the problem is. This will > save you from having to repeat their work. > > Google is having some success in this field, but it isn't human level > yet. For example, you can ask questions like "how many tablespoons in > a cubic parsec?" and get an answer. They are able to do this because > they have 46,000 employees including some top experts like Kurzweil > doing AI research, and a market cap of $339 billion. Their software > runs on a billion computers and phones, giving them indirect access to > exabytes of personal data and exaflops of computing power. This is in > addition to the million or so CPUs that they control directly, > including a quantum computer. > > Well, I'm not sure this is helpful. Perhaps there are some fundamental > questions left to be answered, but it would require some research to > figure out which ones. > > -- > -- Matt Mahoney, [email protected] > > > ------------------------------------------- > 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
