On 11/10/06, Ben Goertzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The word "agent" is famously polysemous in computer science. In my
> prior post, I used it in the sense of "software agent" not "autonomous
> mental agent." These Novamente MindAgents are just software objects
> with certain functionalities, that get scheduled and exchange
> messages. The same sense of agents used in Gul Agha's work on agent
> architectures, years ago.
OK, I looked up the dictionary and you're right - "agent" can mean any thing
that produce certain effects. It seems that your approach involves using
many such agents as in evolutionary algorithm (selection among many
individuals) or swarm intelligence. Is that so? If yes then my approach is
drastically different; I'd use only 1 or a few agents for NL processing.
No, Novamente is not really a swarm intelligence in the way that
you're talking about.
There are billions of nodes and links, but only a couple dozen
MindAgent objects that, in each cognitive cycle, enact cognitive
processes upon those nodes and links...
-- Ben
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