On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 12:27:30AM -0500, Benjamin Goertzel wrote:
> I'm more bullish on the creation of
> knowledge-bases by mining natural language.

Yes, but early automobiles did not start themselves; they 
had a hand crank to get them going.  I'm looking at the
upper ontologies as a way to get started, provide enough
knowledge so that things like reading wikipedia and learning 
from it are not hopelessly far away, but rather, within 
the realm of short-term possibility.

> The problem seems to be that we don't, explicitly and declaratively,
> know how our internal, intuitive knowledge bases are structured.

Hmm.

--linas

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