Alan >From the viewpoint of a developer working to overcome the perceived deficiencies of Cyc with regard to AGI, I ask what problems do you see with Cyc technology as you understand it? I promise not to debate nor to attempt to change your mind.
-Steve On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, Alan Grimes wrote: > If this had been posted to my "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ML, I would > have declared it in violation of my NO CYC policy and put the sender on > notice. =\ > > > [sender's name omitted to save him some emberasment]. > > At 15:56 17.11.02 -0500, Ben wrote: > > >... > > >a) learning about language (how to comprehend & produce it) > > > We are using data from our human2human chat rooms, this data is used to > > train a hidden markov model supertagger. > > We train 2 things normal utterances and discourse. > > > It learnes about things a user tells, his job, where he comes from, his > > mood etc. We try to cluster this and find correlations. eg. young girl > > like horses and a horse has a name. Next time an other girl talks about > > her horse, the bot asks about horse-name ... > > > We try to transfer simple things into a MulitNet-Database with > > probability info (like NARS) A dolphin is a fish > > (dolphin SUB fish) + (* CTXT <folk theory>) > > Its easy to translate this MultiNet into other languages: > > Der Delphin ist ein Fisch. > > > We use the positive/negative feedback of the human chatter to rate the > > bot-answers. > > (dophin SUB fish) becomes > > (dolphin SUB fish) + (* CTXT <folk theory>) > > > This works for chat smalltalk. > > > We are cheating with parsers and AIML, because the bot learning without > > cheating is too boring for chatters. We try to reduce the cheating (aka > > narrow-AI or AGI-ish tools). > > > We can feed easy texts for kids into the system, many sentences are > > parsed correctly and few are transfered correctly into MultiNet-DB. We > > try to get a feedback from chatters, thats supervised learning by > > chatters. > > > For a new similar languange the bootstrap-process is much easier. > > [...] > > -- =========================================================== Stephen L. Reed phone: 512.342.4036 Cycorp, Suite 100 fax: 512.342.4040 3721 Executive Center Drive email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Austin, TX 78731 web: http://www.cyc.com download OpenCyc at http://www.opencyc.org =========================================================== ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/
