On 3/29/07, Matt Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Of course, that is a good way to learn Cyc. My concern is that Cyc has been trying for years without success to build a natural language interface. There is a huge mismatch between structured knowledge representations like Cyc and the way that children actually learn language.
Huger than huge. Cyc, like a lot of AI, is designed following the idea that you can design a knowledge representation for your data, and then you can design an architecture that says how to process that representation. In the human brain, the representation IS the architecture. The representation of a concept like "hood" is a pattern of activation in neurons in different regions of the brain. The set of neurons that are activated to represent "hood" is a function of how these regions are connected together, which ALSO determines the order of events when neurons are activated and ideas are processed. Architecture and representation are identical. - Phil Goetz ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?list_id=303
