> I agree, that might be a viable approach. But the key phrase is > "Encode some simple knowledge, instruct the system in how to ground it > in its sensorimotor experience" - i.e. you're _not_ spending a decade > writing a million assertions and _then_ looking for the first time at > the grounding problem. Instead grounding is addressed, if not as step > 1, then at least as step 1.001.
Well, I find that grounding-based AGI is the kind I can think about most easily, since that's how human intelligence works... But I'm less confident that it's the only possible kind of AGI... I've got to wonder if the masses of text on the Internet could, in themselves, display a sufficient richness of patterns to obviate the need for grounding in another domain like a physical or virtual world, or mathematics. In other words, maybe what you think needs to be gotten from grounding in a nonlinguistic domain, could somehow be gotten indirectly via grounding in masses of text? I am not confident this is feasible, nor that it isn't ... and it's not the approach I'm following ... but I'm uncomfortable dismissing it out of hand... -- Ben G ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=95818715-a78a9b Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
