we want computers to
understand natural language because we think: if you know the syntax,
the semantics follow easily
Huh? "We" don't think anything of the sort. Syntax is relatively easy.
Semantics are AGI.
do any programs like this exist already?
Uh . . . no . . . because any such program which worked would effectively
*be* AGI.
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From: "rooftop8000" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 4:21 AM
Subject: Re: [agi] rule-based NL system
we already have programming languages. we want computers to
understand natural language because we think: if you know the syntax,
the semantics follow easily. you still need the code to process
the object the text are about. so it will always be a crippled NL
understanding
without general intelligence behind it.
the thing about NL is: we can interpret words in many ways.
the word "walk" can mean: the act of walking, a walk you took
yesterday,.. etc
The point is that the computer tries out different meanings, and NL allows
this to happen by having many possible meanings and inaccuracies
why not try this on programimng languages. " t = Object new() " or "make a
new
object and put it in the variable t" or " new object in t ". Now make a
program
that can freely decide what to do with this
-make t a global variable.
-make t a Car variable
- decide to keep the old value in t in some memory
...
it's easy to parse programming languages (unlike NL), but not how
to understand the semantics and reason with it/understand it in a flexible
way
do any programs like this exist already?
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