Friday, July 6, 2007, YKY (Yan King Yin) wrote: YYKY> On 6/30/07, Vladimir Nesov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> NLP is often regarded as some sort of peripheral I/O system, potentially >> allowing AGI to communicate, but in itself not part of AGI, not even worth >> developing early on. But maybe NLP can be just an aspect of AGI reasoning, >> and can be teached as a natural part of AGI training?
YYKY> I know what you're talking about -- using NL directly as a KR language. I suspect it's not that. Problems you talk about are specific for particular bet on system bootstrap method. It assumes that you can code enough capability in system more or less explicitly, so that it would be able to apply some sort of scientific method to churn in actual real world data after that (in essense, it will be able to design custom peripheral perception modules feeding it real world data in high-level KR language). I don't particularly believe in feasibility of that approach (some jokes about how it can look like can be found in [1]), but for the sake of current discussion it's enough to say that it's not the only way possible. The reason I think it could be workable to learn in NL early on is that regardless of I/O KR, system should be able to manipulate with relatively complex combinations of symbols, forming atomic concepts out of them depending on context (at least it's how it looks like from high-level perception point of view). If it can do it with tag-words of high-level KR to perform complex reasoning, why not do the same with letters in a text string? No additional algorithms required. You can't code everything in anyway, you have to stop at some point and start teaching it (blurry...), and data representing real world is hardly more structured than NL. [1] Robert M. French. (1997). When Coffee Cups Are Like Old Elephants or Why Representation Modules Dont Make Sense http://www.u-bourgogne.fr/LEAD/people/french/elephants.pdf -- Vladimir Nesov mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- 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/?member_id=231415&id_secret=13340772-4473d9
