Hi Ben,
I understand the current situation with Novamente. It seems that one
fundamental difference between Cyc and Novamente is that Cyc is focused on the
linguistic / symbolic level whereas Novamente is focused on sensory /
experiential learning.
My current intuition is that Cyc's route may achieve "a certain level of
intelligence" *sooner*. (Although the work done with sensory-based AGI would
probably still be useful.) This may sound kind of vague, but my intuition is
that if we invest on a Cyc-like AGI for 5 years, it may be able to converse
with humans in a natural language and answer some commonsense queries (which,
the current Cyc actually is somewhat capable of). But if you invest 5 years in
a sensory-based AGI, the resulting AGI baby may be still at the level of a 3-5
years old human. It seems that much of your work may be wasted on dealing with
sensory processing and experiential learning, the latter is particularly
inefficient.
The Cyc route actually bypasses experiential learning because it allows us to
directly enter commonsense knowledge into its KB. That is perhaps the most
significant difference between these 2 approaches.
YKY
My first thought and gut-reaction was "Yeah" record all knowledge about all
objects and things, and then you can build an AI on top of that. The problem
is you need a perfectly compiled, ready to use DB of information.
How do you tell its perfect? Use it, test it, in all situations. This is
where Cyc fails most horribly unfortunatly :{
There is no real way to test all information in all situations, so any amount
of Cyc's information is incorrect for some usage, so when the AI tries it it
fails and must correct the information in some way.
Now, I think we need a small core of knowledge, and abilities, wherin we can
get a AI up on its feet and able to interact as soon as possible. Does it know
everything, can can it do everything, no, but if you have a hosue robot, it
really doesnt need to know about Paris, and cities in France, until it has
reason to know it.
If it has a rich ability to interact with its users, to ask questions, to get
data from a simple source like Wikipedia or direct experience, then it has the
ability of humans to learn.
James Ratcliff
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