Perhaps thinking is overrated. It sometimes seems the way progress is made,
and lessons learned, is predominately by trial and error. Thomas Edison's
light bulb is good example, especially since it is the very symbol of
"idea." From what I know, Edison's contribution was his desire to make the
l
Ben Goertzal wrote:
I don't think that a pragmatically-achievable amount of formally-encoded
knowledge is going to be enough to allow a computer system to think
deeply and creatively about any domain -- even a technical domain about
science. What's missing, among other things, is the intricate
int
Gary Miller wrote:
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I guess I'm still having trouble with the concept of grounding. If I
teach/encode a
bot with 99% of the knowledge about hydrogen using facts and information
available in
books and on the web. It is now an idiot savant in that it knows all
about hydrogen and
nothing about a