--- On Fri, 9/19/08, Jiri Jelinek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Matt Mahoney > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Google is the closest we have to AI at the moment. > > Matt, > > There is a difference between being good at > a) finding problem-related info/pages, and > b) finding functional solutions (through reasoning), > especially when > all the needed data is available. > > Google cannot handle even trivial answer-embedded > questions.
Q: how many fluid ounces in a cubic mile? Google: 1 cubic mile = 1.40942995 × 10^14 US fluid ounces Q: who is the tallest U.S. president? Google: Abraham Lincoln at six feet four inches. (along with other text) Current AI (or AGI) research tends to emphasize reasoning ability rather than natural language understanding or rating the reliability of information from different sources, as if these things were not hard or important. Reasoning requires far less computation, as was demonstrated in the early 1960's. Current models that deal with uncertainty have not addressed the hard problems. -- Matt Mahoney, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------- 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=114414975-3c8e69 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
