Hi, > I'd be interested in what you see as the path from SLAM to AGI. > > To me, language generation seems obvious: 1. Make a language and > algorithms for generating stuff in that language. 2. Implement pattern > recognition and abstraction (imo not _that_ hard if you've designed > your language well) 3. Ground the language through real-world > sensorimotor experiences so the utterances mirror the agents' > experiences. > > What do you see as the equivalent path from mapping, navigation and SLAM?
Mapping, navigation and SLAM are not the key point -- embodied learning is the point ... these are just prerequisites... The robotics path to AI is a lot like the evolutionary path to natural intelligence... Create a system that learns to achieve simple sensorimotor goals in its environment... then move on to social goals... and language eventually emerges as an aspect of social interaction... Rather than language being a separate thing that is then grounded in experience, make language **emerge** from nonlinguistic interactions ... as it happened historically See Mithen's The Singing Neanderthals for ideas about how language may have emerged from prelinguistic sound-making ... and a host of researchers for ideas about how language may have emerged from gesture (I have a paper touching on the latter at novamente.net/papers ) -- Ben G ----- 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=93273630-9e8239
