On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 4:10 AM, Abram Demski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How much will you focus on natural language? It sounds like you want > that to be fairly minimal at first. My opinion is that chatbot-type > programs are not such a bad place to start-- if only because it is > good publicity.
I plan to make use of Steven Reed's Texai -- he's writing a dialog system that can translate NL to logical form. If it turns out to be unfeasible, I can borrow a simple NL interface from somewhere else. > I am imagining two ways of entering knowledge: (1) people talk to the > system, and probabilistic/fuzzy knowledge about grammar is invoked to > extract knowledge; (2) people enter facts and rules directly. Entering > stuff directly would be like "programming" the AI, while talking to it > would be like "teaching" it. Yes, I plan to use both ways. > One way of going about it would be to let each person create their own > instance, which would have access to the global body of facts but > would be somewhat separate. This would prevent people from > contaminating the global knowledge base. Some sort of peer rating > system could then allow knowledge from the best AIs to merge into the > global KB. My idea is also exactly this! =) But I need some help in building the knowledge sharing infrastructure. 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/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=114414975-3c8e69 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
