Ben, do you plan to create a top-level ontology also known as a foundation ontology i.e http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_ontology for this system? It should be entirely constructed and described with its own ontology entries based on the topic map standard.
On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 12:48 AM, Anastasios Tsiolakidis <[email protected]>wrote: > > > On 12.04.2014, at 05:22, "Ben Goertzel" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I think it might make sense to separate things so that we have > > > -- requests that refer to a specific Atomspace that has already been > > instantiated and populated > > > While I think you may just have encountered one of the reasons we don't > have AGI APIs, quite a few of the "selections" and "references" are > AGI-complete one way or another, for example in a face-to-face conversation > the utterance "that's not it" has to be evaluated in several (all?) > contexts before the "correct" interpretation is recovered: is it about what > I am doing now, is it about what you are doing, is it about the 2-3 topics > we've been discussing. You could perhaps "pretend" that starting this > conversation created a top-level context, but I do not see how you can > prevent an explosion of nested contexts. One way out is to accept there is > only one gigantic context called "me", another would be to limit the > contexts to something like sales, billing, tech, but then there goes the G > out of the AI. > > Well anyway, one API is better than no API :) > > AT > *AGI* | Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/10514698-9a8cda1e> | > Modify<https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;>Your Subscription > <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
