It fails of course when it devolpes down to the physical level, ie vision or motor cortex skills, but other than that, using language internaly would seem natural, and be much easier to look inside the box ,and see what is going on and correct the system's behaviour.
James
Ben Goertzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So, in the way that you've described this, I totally agree with you. I
> guess I was attacking a paper tiger that any real thinking person involved
> in AI doesn't bother with anymore.
>
I'm not sure about that ... Cyc seems to be based on the idea that
logical manipulation of symbols denoting concepts at the rough level
of English word-senses, is the essence of intelligence.... And I
suppose someone must still believe that Cyc is a viable approach to
AGI (e.g. Doug Lenat? ... though, I'm not sure of this...)
-- Ben
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