> Ben Goertzel wrote: > > >... > > > >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 ;) > > > >ben > >... > > > I wasn't thinking of a NLP system, but rather of a system that could > classify e-mails by variety, and could assemble possible replies out of > boilerplate appropriate to the key terms. Full understanding isn't > needed by this kind of system, but it could still be quite useful. And > expand easily to cover a larger domain, as techniques advanced.
OK, I understand. There are actually many products out there that do this, with moderate levels of success. One of the nicest was made by a company called Artificial Life, which died 8 months ago or so. They also made chat tools aimed at the online customer support market. I don't remember the names of the other firms making similar products, but there are lotsa them. This is part of the eCRM market sector (CRM = Customer Relationship Management). I still don't think this is a great app for a proto-AGI because -- moderate performance is obtainable with narrow-AI methods -- AGI can really contribute something beyond narrow-AI, here, only once it has a deep understanding of human language But of course that's just my intuition, and I could be wrong.... This intuition is perhaps more pertinent to Novamente than to other proto-AGI systems. -- Ben G ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/
