Arthur,
Your call for an AGI roadmap is well targeted. I suspect that others here
have their own, somewhat different roadmaps. These should all be merged,
like decks of cards being shuffled together, maybe with percentages
attached, so that people could announce that, say, I am 31% of the way to
having an AGI. At least this would provide SOME metric for progress.
This would apparently place Ben in a awkward position, because on the one
hand he is somewhat resistant to precisely defining his efforts, while on
the other hand he desperately needs to be able to demonstrate some progress
as he works toward something that is useful/salable.
Is a is too vague, e.g. in A robot is a machine, it is unclear whether
robots and machines are simply two different words for the same thing, or
whether robots are a member of the class known as machines. There are also
other more perverse potential meanings, e.g. that a single robot is a
machine, but that multiple robots are something different, e.g. a junk pile.
In Dr. Eliza, I (attempt to) deal with ambiguous statements by having the
final parser demand an unambiguous statement, and utilize my idiom
resolver to recognize common ambiguous statements and fill in the gaps
with clearer words. Hence, simple unambiguous statements and common gapping
works, but less common gapping fails, as do complex statements that can't be
split into 2 or more simple statements.
I suspect that you may be heading toward the common brick wall of paradigm
limitation, where you initially adopt an oversimplified paradigm to get
something to work, and then run into the limitations of that oversimplified
paradigm. For example, Dr. Eliza is up against its own paradigm limitations
that we have discussed here. Hence, it may be time for some paradigm
overhaul if your efforts are to continue smoothly ahead.
I hope this helps.
Steve
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On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 7:20 AM, A. T. Murray menti...@scn.org wrote:
Tues.20.JUL.2010 -- Seeking Is-a Functionality
Recently our overall goal in coding MindForth
has been to build up an ability for the AI to
engage in self-referential thought. In fact,
SelfReferentialThought is the Milestone
next to be achieved on the RoadMap of the
Google Code MindForth project. However, we are
jumping ahead a little when we allow ourselves
to take up the enticing challenge of coding
Is-a functionality when we have work left over
to perform on fleshing out question-word queries
and pronominal gender assignments. Such tasks
are the loathsome scutwork of coding an AI Mind,
so we reinvigorate our sense of AI ambition by
breaking new ground and by leaving old ground to
be conquered more thoroughly as time goes by.
We simply want our budding AI mind to think
thoughts like the following.
A robin is a bird.
Birds have wings.
Andru is a robot.
A robot is a machine.
We are not aiming directly at inference or
logical thinking here. We want rather to
increase the scope of self-referential AI
conversations, so that the AI can discuss
classes and categories of entities in the
world. If people ask the AI what it is,
and it responds that it is a robot and
that a robot is a machine, we want the
conversation to flow unimpeded and
naturally in any direction that occurs
to man or machine.
We have already built in the underlying
capabilities such as the usage of articles
like a or the, and the usage of verbs
of being. Teaching the AI how to use am
or is or are was a major problem that
we worried about solving during quite a
few years of anticipation of encountering
an impassable or at least difficult roadblock
on our AGI Roadmap. Now we regard introducing
Is-a functionality not so much as an
insurmountable ordeal as an enjoyable
challenge that will vastly expand the
self-referential wherewithal of the
incipient AI.
Arthur
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