On 2/28/08, Mark Waser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> I think Ben's text mining approach has one big flaw: it can only reason about existing knowledge, but cannot generate new ideas using words / concepts > > There is a substantial amount of literature that claims that *humans* can't generate new ideas de novo either -- and that they can only build up "new" ideas from existing pieces.
That's fine, but the way our language builds up new ideas seems to be very complex, and it makes natural language a bad knowledge representation for AGI. For example: An "apple pie" is a pie with apple fillings. A "door knob" is a knob attached to a door. A "street prostitute" is prostitute working in the streets. So the meaning of AB depends on the *interactions* of A and B, and it violates the principle of compositionality -- where the meaning of AB would be somehow combined from A and B in a *fixed* way. An even more complex example: "spread the jam with a knife" "draw a circle with a knife" "cut the cake with a knife" "rape the girl with a knife" "stop the train with a knife" (with unclear meaning) So the simple concept "do X with a knife" can be interpreted in myriad ways -- it generates new ideas in complex ways. YKY ------------------------------------------- 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
