Well, I can put the components of who won the 1924 world series and determine that I don't know the answer (unless it was the Yankees since I think Babe Ruth might have done something significant in 1924). However, the fact that I was able to interpret the sentence without seeming to search for the answer to what it means suggests that there were some underlying processes at work. Of course there were extensive underlying processes, so the possibility that we have various lists of things that we know we don't know along with lists of things that we think we do know is a possibility. But for a feasible AI I think we have to find a way to compact all that information in a way that would make it accessible for quick location of information. Maybe it could be done through generalizations and the like.
The point that we know it was a baseball team is very important because it might help us to delineate some of the processes of thinking with the hope of finding feasible ways to do this might be done in an AI program. Jim Bromer On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 5:23 PM, James Ratcliff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It is fairly simple at that point, we have enough context to have a very > limited domain > world series - baseball > 1924 > answer is a team, > so we can do a lookup in our database easily enough, or realize that we > really dont have a lot of information about baseball in our mindset. > > And for the other one, it would just be a strait term match. > > James Ratcliff > > _______________________________________ > James Ratcliff - http://falazar.com > Looking for something... > --- On Mon, 7/28/08, Brad Paulsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hmmm. That particular query may not have been the best example since, to a > non-Norwegian speaker, the phonological surface feature of that statement > alone > > could account for the "feeling of not knowing." In other words, the > word > "fomlepung" just "doesn't sound right." Good point. > But, that may only > explain > how we know we don't know "strange sounding" words. > > Let's try another example: > > Which team won the 1924 World Series? > > Cheers, > > Brad ------------------------------------------- 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
