On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, Ben Goertzel wrote: > Charles Hixson wrote (in response to me): [...] > > May I suggest that if you are even close to what you are attempting, > > that you have the start of a dandy personal secretary. With so much > > correspondence coming via e-mail these days, this would create a very > > simplified environment in which the entity would need to operate. In > > this limited environment you wouldn't need full meanings for most words, > > only categories and valuations. > BenG: > As I said in a recent post, I prefer to stay away from natural language > processing at this stage, until the system has acquired a rudimentary > understanding of natural language thru its own experience. We're not quite > there yet ;) > That's where the Mentifex AI and Novamente differ (and probably also where A.T. Murray the linguist and Ben Goertzel the mathematician differ).
If you're not aiming for language, you're aiming for a smart animal. A.T. Murray -- http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/aisource.html is the cluster of Mind programs described in the AI textbook "AI4U" based on AI Mind-1.1 by Arthur T. Murray which may be pre-ordered from bookstores with hardcover ISBN 0-595-65437-1 and ODP softcover ISBN 0-595-25922-7. ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/
