Dave: That's why our additional knowledge from the blog is the only way we can reasonably disambiguate the sentence.
Contradicted by my reading. The particular blog reading was esoteric sure. But you do have to be capable of creative readings as humans are - that's the fundamental challenge of language. But of course no machine understands language yet, period - and isn't likely to for a v. v. long time. From: David Jones Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 4:35 PM To: agi Subject: Re: [agi] NL parsing This is actually a great example of why we should not try to write AGI as something able to solve any possible problem generally. We, strong ai agents, are not able to understand this sentence without quite a lot more information. Likewise, we shouldn't expect a general AI to try many possibilities until it is able to solve such a maliciously constructed sentence. There isn't explanatory reason to believe most of the possible hypotheses. We need more information to come up with possible hypotheses, which we can then test out on the sentence and confirm. That' why our additional knowledge from the blog is the only way we can reasonably disambiguate the sentence. Normal natural language disambiguation is similar in that way. Dave On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Matt Mahoney <[email protected]> wrote: That that that Buffalo buffalo that Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo that Buffalo buffalo that Buffalo buffalo buffalo. -- Matt Mahoney, [email protected] ----- Original Message ---- From: Mike Tintner <[email protected]> To: agi <[email protected]> Sent: Fri, July 16, 2010 11:05:51 AM Subject: Re: [agi] NL parsing Or if you want to be pedantic about caps, the speaker is identifying 3 buffaloes from Buffalo, & 2 from elsewhere. Anyone got any other readings? -------------------------------------------------- From: "Jiri Jelinek" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 3:12 PM To: "agi" <[email protected]> Subject: [agi] NL parsing > "Believe it or not, this sentence is grammatically correct and has > meaning: 'Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo > buffalo.'" > > source: http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/13120 > > :-) > > > ------------------------------------------- > 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 ------------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------------- 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 agi | Archives | Modify Your Subscription ------------------------------------------- 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=8660244-6e7fb59c Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
