Your bot is having a conversation - in words. Words are in fact continually
made sense of - grounded - by the human brain - converted into sensory
images - and have to be.
I've given simple examples of snatches of conversation, which are in fact
obviously thus grounded and have to be.
The only way a human - or a machine - can make sense of sentence 1 is by
referring to a mental image/movie of Bush walking. Merely referring to more
words won't cut it. Ditto for sentence 2 - it is essential to refer to an
image of Dennis to establish whether he is handsome. If s.o. asks me right
now if you are handsome, I can half understand the words, but I can't
understand if they are true, because I have never seen you (although I'm
sure you're incredibly butch). Ditto with sentence 3, a human or a machine
can only really tell whether a person's dialogue is getting emotional, by
forming a sensory/sound image of the dialogue on the page and thus of the
tone - which you do all the time whether you're aware of it or not.
Words and all symbols are totally abstract - if you don't have a sensory
image of what they refer to, you can't understand or ground them - that's
the grounding problem. "Get me a grundchen, Dennis." Meaningless.
Ungrounded. But if I show you a picture of a grundchen, you will have no
problem knowing what it is, and getting one.
Oh, & just to make your day, if you don't have a body, you can't understand
the images either - because all images have a POV - and are at a distance
from an observer - which will take a little more time to explain. That's the
extended grounding problem.
Is all that clear? If it is, it's grounded.
Mike,
Was it your explanation of what "Grounding Problem" is?
If it was - you missed the explanation and gave only examples ...
Dennis: >>> 1) Grounding Problem (the *real* one, not the cheap substitute
that
everyone usually thinks of as the symbol grounding problem).
Say, we are trying to build AGI for the purpose of running intelligent
chat-bot.
What would be the grounding problem in this case?
Example: understanding:
"Bush walks like a cowboy, doesn't he?"
"Dennis Gorelik is v. handsome, no?"
"You're getting v. emotional about this"
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