Yes, it's what triggered my nitpicking reflex; I am sorry about that. Your comment sounds fine when related to viability of teaching an AGI in a text-only mode without too much manual assistance, but semantics of what it was given to is quite different.
On Dec 7, 2007 3:13 AM, Ed Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Vlad, > > My response was to the following message > > ====================== > Ed, > This line of data gathering is very interesting to me as well, though I > found quickly that using all web sources quickly devolved into insanity. > By using scanned text novels, I was able to extract lots of relational > information on a range of topics. > With a well defined ontology system, and some human overview, a large > amount of information can be extracted and many probabilities learned. > > James > ========================= > so I was asking what sort of knowledge he had extracted as part of the "lots > of relational information on a range of topics". > > Ed Porter > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Vladimir Nesov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 7:02 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research] > > > Edward, > > It's certainly a trick question, since if you don't define semantics > for this knowledge thing, it can turn out to be anything from simplest > do-nothings to full-blown physically-infeasible superintelligences. So > you assertion doesn't cut the viability of knowledge extraction for > various purposes, and without that it's not clear what you actually > mean. > > > On Dec 7, 2007 1:20 AM, Ed Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is something I have been telling people for years. That you should > be > > able to extract a significant amount (but probably far from all) world > > knowledge by scanning large corpora of text. I would love to see how well > > it actually works for a given size of corpora, and for a given level of > > algorithmic sophistication. > > > -- > 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/?&; > > ----- > 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/?&; -- 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=8660244&id_secret=73408474-ba1629
