Lojban is a unique case as it has the flexibility to be a formal language, a language as ambiguous as English or more so, and to exist at any level inbetween as well... one could use it in exploratory AI work in a variety of ways...
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 10:36 PM, Trent Waddington < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > -- Ben Goertzel, PhD CEO, Novamente LLC and Biomind LLC Director of Research, SIAI [EMAIL PROTECTED] "A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects." -- Robert Heinlein ------------------------------------------- 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
