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


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