On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Matt Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So how does yet another formal language processing system help us understand > natural language? This route has been a dead end for 50 years, in spite of > the ability to always make some initial progress before getting stuck.
Although I mostly agree with you, I do often think that humans understand formal languages very differently to, say, compilers (if they can be said to understand them at all) and I think it is interesting to study how one might build an AGI system that understands formal languages the way humans do. I have no idea whether it is easier to do this with formal languages than it is to do this with natural languages. Trent ------------------------------------------- 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=117534816-b15a34 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
