Alan Grimes wrote:
According to my rule of thumb,
If it has a natural language database it is wrong,
I more or less agree...
Currently I'm trying to learn Italian before I leave
New Zealand to start my PhD. After a few months working
through books on Italian grammar and trying to learn lots
Friday, December 27, 2002, 5:15:40 AM, Shane Legg wrote:
SL One other thing; if one really is focused on natural language
SL learning why not make things a little easier and use an artificial
SL language like Esperanto? Unlike like highly artificial languages
SL like logic based or maths based
At 06:11 27.12.02 -0500, Cliff wrote:
...
I suspect that Esperanto will not be much more difficult to tackle
than any current existing language, or at best a *tiny* bit easier.
The greatest difficulty of language is not grammar, or spelling,
punctuation, etc.
Esperanto is still too complicated.
Kevin wrote:
We often intelligently use things we do not understand. Computers,
automobiles, our brains, quarks, and so on. Why can't an AGI use words it
does not actually understand, so long as it uses the word properly and
accomplishes the desired result?
I think it's fine for an AGI
I've always considered the whole world/universe as one big database. A system
that narrows its focus to a partial set of knowledge contained in say, a
computer database, will be excellent when performing within the realm of which
that database was created.
Everyone needs to start wearing
Seriously, how would current state of the art voice recognition software grok
this conversation?
cheers,
Simon
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I suspect that Esperanto will not be much more difficult to tackle
than any current existing language, or at best a *tiny* bit easier.
The greatest difficulty of language is not grammar, or spelling,
punctuation, etc. To get an AGI to the point of using _any_ language
naturally on the level
Shane,
I agreed with the wording in your earlier post more ;)
It is true that learning Esperanto would be easier for an AI than learning
English or Italian.
However, I think that if you had an AI capable of mastering the
syntax-semantics-pragmatics interface [the really hard part of language,
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I guess people continue to do AI with languages like English
because that is what is of practical use and
On Dec 26 Ben Goertzel said:
One basic problem is what's known as symbol grounding. this
means that an Ai system can't handle semantics, language-based
cognition or even advanced syntax if it doesn't understand the
relationships between its linguistic tokens and patterns in the
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