Re: [agi] Seeking CYC critiques
This is hardly a list of natural language shortcomings, but it provides a (slightly amusing) example of natural language problems within a bad-argument context: http://atheistwiki.wikispaces.com/Why+you+can%27t+win+an+argument+about+what+the+Bible+says -- Olie On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 9:00 AM, Mike Tintner [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Steve: I finally gave up on having Dr. Eliza answer questions, because the round trip error rate seemed to be inescapably high. This is the product of: ... x.5 English's shortcomings in providing a platform to accurately state the knowledge, question, or answer. Steve, I wonder whether you'd like to outline an additional list of English/language's shortcomings here. I've just been reading Gary Marcus' Kluge - he has a whole chapter on language's shortcomings, and it would be v. interesting to compare and analyse. -- *agi* | Archives https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ | Modifyhttps://www.listbox.com/member/?;Your Subscription 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/?member_id=8660244id_secret=120640061-aded06 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
Re: [agi] Chaogate chips: Yum!
Mmmm... Chaoglate-chip cookie processing! On 11/6/08, Richard Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A report about research to build chaotic logic: http://technology.newscientist.com/article/mg20026801.800 --- 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=8660244id_secret=120640061-aded06 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
Re: [agi] SOTA
On 1/6/07, Philip Goetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem wasn't technological. It was that nobody had any use for a robot. We never figured out what people would want the robot for. I think that's still the problem. Well, I for one want a job assistant who can fetch things - what apprentices or surgical nurse-assistanty things are often called to do. Assistant: Please get me a Phillips head screwdriver and half-a-dozen 10mm screws A robot that could 1) Voice recognise instructions 2) Understand simple commands like Get me X, Hold this still, Return this... 3) Manoeuvre from your work space to your tool-store 4) Grab items from an appropriately set-up tool-store etc Would be pretty damn useful, and I see most of this as being feasible with current day tech. Sure, such an assistant would be pretty damn expensive, and less useful than a high-school-dropout apprentice/assistant (who can also run down the street and get you a sandwich), but this is a real, possible application for a robot. -- Olie - This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?list_id=303
Re: [agi] SOTA
(Excellent list there, Matt)Although Pei Wang makes a good point that the fragmentation of AI does make it difficult to compare projects, it is interesting+ to note the huge differences in the movements in different narrow-AI fields. As has already been mentioned, it is interesting+ to compare the way that progress is very slow in areas such as NLP and Expert Systems, whereas there is significant, albeit gradual progress in physical interaction systems. For instance, the soccer-bots get better every year, cars can now finish DARPA grand challenge -like events in reasonable time... (I personally think that we're fast approaching a critical point where the technology is just good enough to attract more cash and hence more improvement; although meatbags will be better traffic-drivers for a while yet, physical interaction systems can now perform well enough for many applications) Although the question What is State-of-the-Art? won't attract an incontrivertibly good answer, it prompts a lot of bloody good questions that can be answered usefully.-- Olie This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
