Matthias,
Understanding goes far beyond mere knowledge - understanding *is* the ability
to solve problems. One's understanding of a situation or problem is only as
deep as one's (theoretical) ability to act in such a way as to achieve a
desired outcome.
A chess grandmaster has a much deeper understanding of chess than a novice. The
grandmaster is able to solve chess problems of much greater complexity and much
faster too, because his understanding of the game is deeper.
Likewise, natural language understanding requires solving problems. The
problem-solving involved with NLP is cross-domain (which is obviously an AGI
trait). Metaphor and analogy require bridging domains. Disambiguation based on
subtle context cues requires knowing what information is relevant, which in
turn requires working causal models... learning new language involves bridging
concepts in a new domain to known concepts (which is how such an AI could learn
math).
So your distinction between understanding and problem-solving is a false one.
My proof stands :-]
Terren
--- On Tue, 10/21/08, Dr. Matthias Heger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The problem is not to learn the
equations or the symbols.
The point is that a
system which is able to understand and learn linguistic knowledge is not
necessarily
able to use and apply its knowledge to solve problems.
-
Matthias
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