I didn't read this discussion in its entirety, but just wanted to suggest nice article https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-41649-6_11 - in which the pragmatic definition of understanding and meaning is given. The process understands phenomenon F if this process can 1) explain F; 2) predict F; 3) produce plans regarding F; 4) recreate F. The phenomenon F has meaning for some process if F is somehow related with the goals which process try to achieve. This is good starting point for measuring understanding and creating processes that maximizes understanding.
So - my approach https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/opencog/z_Uy5NYwjt4 is to create initial process with implemented understanding and learning capabilities and let this process to self-improve itself. So - this is step by step approach with human invovlement. Not so fancy approach as waiting for the full intelligence emerging from the large corpora, but, I guess, still good alternative path to AGI. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "opencog" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/opencog. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/opencog/c851e465-4846-4b00-9456-d19a1b95cb1d%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
