Steve Richfield wrote:
Abram,
On 4/10/08, *Abram Demski* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
I'd be interested in looking at a paper.
How are papers handled on this forum? Do I post it as an attachment, or
just send it to you? What is the netiquette here?
However, I'll be honest: your
claim of AGI sounds over-inflated, mainly because it sounds like your
algorithm is text-specific and wouldn't help with things like vision,
robot control, etc.
It all depends on your definition of AGI. My belief is that the
definition generally accepted here lacks the God/Santa Clause
consideration. A _REAL_ AGI would have simultaneous presence at
thousands of locations, and would leverage on countless indigenous
biological mechanisms (people) for most if not all of the I/O.
BTW, perhaps you have seen the movie Colossus, the Forbin Project? Did
you know that was the movie version of the first book of a trilogy, and
that the subsequent books then explored a world with a version of AGI
that I think may be beyond the one being considered here? Anyway, Dr.
Eliza is very close to THAT concept of AGI.
Nonetheless, a good 'chatbot' is still something
of interest (I hope that term isn't taken as derogatory).
As I explained in an earlier email, this is NOT a chatbot and will never
win a chatbot competition. The ONLY reason it has a conversational
interface is because that is the only thing that we could see working in
the real world. Very early designs utilized lengthy questionnaires, but
it soon became obvious that to work well in even a single subject
domain, the questionnaire would have to be a bound volume.
The concept of AGI is really more about being completely general (hence
the "G"), so it would be premature to use it of your system: a true AGI
would be able to cope with a very broad range of circumstances (or be
capable of learning how to cope with them). That definition would imply
that an AGI would ipso facto be able to act as a chatbot.
That is not to say that you may not have devised an interesting and
useful system, however, with mechanisms that could be a valuable basis
for something more general. It all depends on he details.
The best protocol for broadcasting your paper, btw, would probably be to
just send it directly to anyone who asks for a copy. That would be the
first step.
Richard Loosemore
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