On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 10:58 AM, Ben Goertzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Your inference trajectory assumes that "cybersex" and "STD" are > probabilistically independent within "sex" but this is not the case. > > PLN would make this error using the independence-assumption-based term logic > deduction rule; but in practice this rule is supposed to be overridden in > cases of known dependencies. > > ben
But the issue (or a major issue) is whether or not the AI program can be designed learn on its own through the medium of language (or other IO with the data environment world). In order to do this, you have to recognize that rules or rule-like systems need to be applied so that the program could learn to recognize that additional information that is derived from the IO environment can be applied to another situation to develop a more sophisticated understanding of some other rule. Jim Bromer > > On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 10:04 AM, YKY (Yan King Yin) > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Here is an example of a problematic inference: >> >> 1. Mary has cybersex with many different partners >> 2. Cybersex is a kind of sex >> 3. Therefore, Mary has many sex partners >> 4. Having many sex partners -> high chance of getting STDs >> 5. Therefore, Mary has a high chance of STDs >> >> What's wrong with this argument? It seems that a general rule is >> involved in step 4, and that rule can be "refined" with some >> qualifications (ie, it does not apply to all kinds of sex). But the >> question is, how can an AGI detect that an exception to a general rule >> has occurred? >> >> Or, do we need to explicitly state the exceptions to every rule? >> >> Thanks for any comments! >> YKY >> >> >> ------------------------------------------- >> agi >> Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now >> RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ >> Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; >> Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > > > > -- > Ben Goertzel, PhD > CEO, Novamente LLC and Biomind LLC > Director of Research, SIAI > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > "Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first > overcome " - Dr Samuel Johnson > > > ________________________________ > agi | Archives | Modify Your Subscription ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=108809214-a0d121 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
