Mike Tintner wrote:
That illusion is partly the price of using language, which
fragments into pieces what is actually a continuous common sense,
integrated response to the world.
Mike,
Excellent observation. I've said it many times before: language is analog human
experience digitized. And every time I do, people look at me funny.
There is an analogy to musical synthesizers that may be instructive. Early
synthesizers attempted to recreate analog instruments using mathematics. The
result sounded "sort of like" the real thing, but any human could tell it was a
synthesized sound fairly easily. Then, people started recording instruments and
sampling their sounds digitally. Bingo. I've been a musician all my life,
classically trained and am both a published songwriter and professional
guitarist. With the latest digital synthesizers I have in my nome studio, it's
very difficult for me to answer the question, "Is it real or is it digitized."
Even plucked string instruments, like the guitar, really sound like the analog
original using the newer synths.
Language is how we "record analog human experience in digitized format." We
need to concentrate on discovering how that works so we can use it as input to
produce intelligence that "sounds" just like the "real thing" on output. I
believe Matt Mahoney has been working on developing insights in this area with
his work in information theory and compression. Once we "crack the code," we
will be able to build symbolized AGIs that will, in many cases, exceed the
capabilities of the original because the underlying representation will be so
much easier to observe and manipulate.
Cheers,
Brad
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