Hi Matt, Wonderful idea, now it will even show the typical human trait of lying...when i ask it "do you still love me?" most answers in its database will have Yes as an answer but when i ask it 'what's my name?' it'll call me John?
However, your approach is actually already being implemented to a certain extent. Apparantly (was it newsweek, time?) the No 1 search engine in (Singapore? Hong Kong? Taiwan? - sorry I forgot) is *not* Google but a local language Q&A system that works very much the way you envisage it (except it collects the answers in its own SAN i.e. not distributed over the user machines) =Jean-Paul >>>> On 2007/12/07 at 18:58, in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matt Mahoney > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Matt > > You call it an AGI proposal but it is described as a distributed search > algorithms that (merely) appears intelligent i.e. "design for an > Internet-wide message posting and search service". There doesn't appear to > be any grounding or semantic interpretation by the AI system? How will it > become more intelligent? Turing was careful to make no distinction between "being intelligent" and "appearing intelligent". The requirement for passing the Turing test is to be able to compute a probability distribution P over text strings that varies from the true distribution no more than it varies between different people. Once you can do this, then given a question Q, you can compute answer A that maximizes P(A|Q) = P(QA)/P(Q). This does not require grounding. The way my system appears intelligent is by directing Q to the right experts, and by being big enough to have experts on nearly every conceivable topic of interest to humans. A lot of AGI research seems to be focused on how to represent knowledge and thought efficiently on a (much too small) computer, rather than on what services the AGI should provide for us. -- Research Associate: CITANDA Post-Graduate Section Head Department of Information Systems Phone: (+27)-(0)21-6504256 Fax: (+27)-(0)21-6502280 Office: Leslie Commerce 4.21 ----- 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=73912948-7bb204
