Re: [agi] rule-based NL system

2007-04-28 Thread YKY (Yan King Yin)
Mark, I need to know a bit more about your approach. What do you mean when you say "grammar is embedded in your KR"? For an example rule like "NP --> det noun", how is it represented or "embedded" in your scheme? Your approach may have these problems: 1. you cannot learn a new NL; English is

Re: [agi] rule-based NL system

2007-04-28 Thread Mike Dougherty
On 4/28/07, Mike Tintner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: And what if I say to you: "sorry but the elephant did sit on the chair" - how would you know that I could be right? I could assign a probability of truthfulness to this statement that is dependant on how many other assertions you have made and

Re: [agi] mouse uploading

2007-04-28 Thread Matt Mahoney
Does anyone know if the number of synapses per neuron (8000) for mouse cortical cells also apply to humans? This is the first time I have seen an estimate of this number. I believe the researchers based their mouse simulation on anatomical studies. --- "J. Storrs Hall, PhD." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

RE: [agi] rule-based NL system

2007-04-28 Thread Matt Mahoney
--- Gary Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'll have to say my objection stands. > > Because the point is that blind people learn about an object and infer it's > shape from words and description of the object without ever seeing them. I think the blind form a 3-D model of the world throug

Re: [agi] rule-based NL system

2007-04-28 Thread Mike Tintner
Helen Keller must have had a tough time existing without words. According to you she didn't know the shape of the chairs she sat on. She had no words. What are these commonsense rules in words that you learned? That apply to the sentences I gave? Or to elephants and chairs? Where did you get the

RE: [agi] rule-based NL system

2007-04-28 Thread Gary Miller
I'll have to say my objection stands. Because the point is that blind people learn about an object and infer it's shape from words and description of the object without ever seeing them. An intelligent AI will do so in the same way. After the blind learns about an object by reading in bra

Re: [agi] rule-based NL system

2007-04-28 Thread Matt Mahoney
--- "YKY (Yan King Yin)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Headline: "Employees of a new plan to get Dell back on the road to growth, > including streamlining management and looking at new methods of distribution > beyond the computer company's direct-selling model." > Can a baby really learn from THIS

Re: [agi] rule-based NL system

2007-04-28 Thread Lukasz Stafiniak
On 4/28/07, Mark Waser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, in the "real" context of an AGI, you make her responsible for > talking to you in this simplified language, which just pushes language > understanding under her carpet ;-) > (joking here) ASSERT("Lukasz Stafiniak", Evil) So . . . . if I ge

Re: [agi] rule-based NL system

2007-04-28 Thread Mark Waser
So, in the "real" context of an AGI, you make her responsible for talking to you in this simplified language, which just pushes language understanding under her carpet ;-) (joking here) ASSERT("Lukasz Stafiniak", Evil) So . . . . if I get NLP working, does this mean that I have AGI or just a s

Re: [agi] rule-based NL system

2007-04-28 Thread Lukasz Stafiniak
On 4/28/07, Mark Waser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You are right that NLP implies the processing of world-view, I just > remind that general world-view management should be outsourced to the > AGI core. I agree. My mental separation is that the NLP "module" simply consists of the parser and th

Re: [agi] rule-based NL system

2007-04-28 Thread Mark Waser
You are right that NLP implies the processing of world-view, I just remind that general world-view management should be outsourced to the AGI core. I agree. My mental separation is that the NLP "module" simply consists of the parser and the generator but that they absolutely require the conten

Re: [agi] mouse uploading

2007-04-28 Thread Bob Mottram
When I first saw this on the BBC web site I thought it looked exciting - maybe the first "upload". But on closer inspection it seems to be less impressive. There is an extremely brief report on what they did, which looks like merely simulating a large number of neurons on a supercomputer, withou

Re: [agi] rule-based NL system

2007-04-28 Thread Mark Waser
So you mean, that NLP can/must understand the Whorfian, Barthesian, philosophical "broad language" using the tools of computational linguistics' "narrow language"? Then NLP=AGI (holistic, non-modular view) I mean that I believe that the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is true and that this means that NL

Re: [agi] mouse uploading

2007-04-28 Thread Benjamin Goertzel
The man issue is, we we still have basically no idea of the patterns according to which the neurons in the mouse brain are really interconnected, except in some particular regions ... so semi-randomly hooking up 8 million (well-simulated individually) neurons is not really simulating half a mouse

Re: [agi] unsubscribe

2007-04-28 Thread Benjamin Goertzel
Note that instructions regarding how to unsubscribe are given at the end of every post ot the list. Therefore, if folks want to unsubscribe, they can just do so themselves without requesting someone else to do it for them ;-) -- Ben G On 4/27/07, Li, Jiang (NIH/CC/DRD) [F] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> w

Re: [agi] rule-based NL system

2007-04-28 Thread Lukasz Stafiniak
On 4/28/07, Lukasz Stafiniak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So you mean, that NLP can/must understand the Whorfian, Barthesian, philosophical "broad language" using the tools of computational linguistics' "narrow language"? Then NLP=AGI (holistic, non-modular view) Not that structuralists, tracin

Re: [agi] rule-based NL system

2007-04-28 Thread Lukasz Stafiniak
On 4/28/07, Mark Waser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No, I mean applying to other "modality" so to say, to some other kind > of problem solving, not to another language Ah. And this is the basis for my repeated clarification about NLP requiring general cognition of a specific level (or type). P

Re: [agi] rule-based NL system

2007-04-28 Thread Mark Waser
No, I mean applying to other "modality" so to say, to some other kind of problem solving, not to another language Ah. And this is the basis for my repeated clarification about NLP requiring general cognition of a specific level (or type). Path-finding cognition certainly isn't required for N

Re: [agi] rule-based NL system

2007-04-28 Thread Lukasz Stafiniak
On 4/28/07, Mark Waser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't think this is the operational sense of NLP as pursued by > applying linguistic theories in narrow AI setting. (e.g. Dynamic > Syntax, DRT, HPSG, ...) but we want to apply NLP generally (i.e. not just in a narrow AI setting) (For wha

Re: [agi] unsubscribe

2007-04-28 Thread Mark Horvath
Sure, but may I ask the reason? I've found these discussions pretty interesting Thanks, Mark On 4/28/07, Li, Jiang (NIH/CC/DRD) [F] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Please unsubscribe me from this list. Thank you. Jiang - This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsu

Re: [agi] rule-based NL system

2007-04-28 Thread Mark Waser
> I don't think this is the operational sense of NLP as pursued by > applying linguistic theories in narrow AI setting. (e.g. Dynamic > Syntax, DRT, HPSG, ...) but we want to apply NLP generally (i.e. not just in a narrow AI setting) > I was writing in context of Mark Waser language-specific solu

Re: [agi] rule-based NL system

2007-04-28 Thread Mark Waser
I thought that you implied that the solution to NLP does not need to be general in its cognitive capacity. Not deliberately. I suspect that it's going to require most of what general cognition includes *at a specific level* (i.e. somewhere between but not including the low/perceptual level

Re: [agi] Circular definitions of intelligence

2007-04-28 Thread Mike Tintner
Shane, Little bit confusing here - & perhaps too general and unfocussed to pursue really But interestingly while you deny that the given conception of intelligence is rational and deterministic.. you then proceed to argue rationally and deterministically. First, that there IS a right way to i

Re: [agi] mouse uploading

2007-04-28 Thread Lukasz Stafiniak
On 4/28/07, Eugen Leitl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 01:15:13PM -0400, J. Storrs Hall, PhD. wrote: > In case anyone is interested, some folks at IBM Almaden have run a > one-hemisphere mouse-brain simulation at the neuron level on a Blue Gene (in What they did was running a

Re: [agi] mouse uploading

2007-04-28 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 01:15:13PM -0400, J. Storrs Hall, PhD. wrote: > In case anyone is interested, some folks at IBM Almaden have run a > one-hemisphere mouse-brain simulation at the neuron level on a Blue Gene (in What they did was running a simplified, unrealistic model. It's still a great

Re: [agi] rule-based NL system

2007-04-28 Thread Lukasz Stafiniak
On 4/28/07, Lukasz Stafiniak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 4/28/07, J. Storrs Hall, PhD. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I disagree with this two ways. First, it's fairly well accepted among I was writing in context of Mark Waser language-specific solutions (as I understand them), which if wished co

Re: [agi] rule-based NL system

2007-04-28 Thread Lukasz Stafiniak
On 4/28/07, J. Storrs Hall, PhD. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I disagree with this two ways. First, it's fairly well accepted among mainstream AI researchers that full NL competence is "AI-complete", i.e. that human-level intelligence is a prerequisite for NL. I don't think this is the operationa

[agi] mouse uploading

2007-04-28 Thread J. Storrs Hall, PhD.
In case anyone is interested, some folks at IBM Almaden have run a one-hemisphere mouse-brain simulation at the neuron level on a Blue Gene (in 0.1 real time): http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6600965.stm http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/cascio20070425/ http://www.modha.org/papers/rj1040

Re: [agi] rule-based NL system

2007-04-28 Thread J. Storrs Hall, PhD.
On Saturday 28 April 2007 09:02, Benjamin Goertzel wrote: > In other words: I became convinced that in the developmental approach, if > you want to take the human child language learning metaphor at all > seriously, you need to go beyond pure language learning and take an > experientially grounded

Re: [agi] Circular definitions of intelligence

2007-04-28 Thread Shane Legg
Mike, 1) It seems to assume that intelligence is based on a rational, deterministic program - is that right? Adaptive intelligence, I would argue, definitely isn't. There isn't a rational, right way to approach the problems adaptive intelligence has to deal with. I'm not sure what you mean by

Re: [agi] rule-based NL system

2007-04-28 Thread Mike Tintner
Classic objection. The answer is that blind people can draw - reasonably faithful outline objects. Experimentally tested. Their brains like all our brains form graphic outlines of objects and fit them accordingly to create scenes to test the sense of sentences. Worms do it too. They are blind,

Re: [agi] rule-based NL system

2007-04-28 Thread J. Storrs Hall, PhD.
I disagree with this two ways. First, it's fairly well accepted among mainstream AI researchers that full NL competence is "AI-complete", i.e. that human-level intelligence is a prerequisite for NL. Secondly, even the parsing part of NLP is part of a more general recursive sequence understander

Re: [agi] rule-based NL system

2007-04-28 Thread Lukasz Stafiniak
On 4/28/07, Mark Waser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think that a *solution to NLP* is not a *solution to AGI*, so your > argument does not apply. I think that this depends upon your definition of intelligence and also assumes that a solution to NLP is not enough to boostrap the rest. I co

Re: [agi] rule-based NL system

2007-04-28 Thread Mark Waser
I strongly suspect that he is a very visual person and that, for him, "convert into a complete mental model" feels like seeing so he used that as a shorthand for what he really meant -- assuming (unconsciously/without thinking) that you would be willing to accept the shorthand rather than de

Re: [agi] rule-based NL system

2007-04-28 Thread Mark Waser
I think that a *solution to NLP* is not a *solution to AGI*, so your argument does not apply. I think that this depends upon your definition of intelligence and also assumes that a solution to NLP is not enough to boostrap the rest. I could argue the point either way. I think that NLP is

Re: [agi] rule-based NL system

2007-04-28 Thread Mark Waser
>> How do you know that the sentences: >> "The man climbed the penny" >> "The mat sat on the cat" >> "The teapot broke the bull" >> are probably nonsense (but not necessarily)? I agree strongly with Mike's basic point. The amusing thing is that my brain provided immediate images of all of the

RE: [agi] rule-based NL system

2007-04-28 Thread Gary Miller
Are you saying then that blind people can not make sense of language because they lack the capacity to imagine images having never seen them before? Or that blind people could not understand or would not view these these as equally strange as a sighted person? "The man climbed the penny" "The m

Re: [agi] rule-based NL system

2007-04-28 Thread Lukasz Stafiniak
On 4/28/07, Mike Tintner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Disagree. The brain ALWAYS tries to make sense of language - convert it into images and graphics. I see no area of language comprehension where this doesn't apply. I think that a *solution to NLP* is not a *solution to AGI*, so your argumen

Re: [agi] rule-based NL system

2007-04-28 Thread Mike Tintner
Disagree. The brain ALWAYS tries to make sense of language - convert it into images and graphics. I see no area of language comprehension where this doesn't apply. I was just reading a thread re the Symbol gorund P on another group - & I think what's fooling people into thinking purely linguis

Re: [agi] rule-based NL system

2007-04-28 Thread Mark Waser
>> I agree about developmental language learning combined with automated >> learning of grammar rules being the right approach to NLP. I think that the fundamentals of grammar rules are hard-coded into humans and that the specific non-determined details (i.e. language-specific differences)

Re: [agi] rule-based NL system

2007-04-28 Thread Mark Waser
:-) In bold, blue below BTW, I am color-blind (the standard male red-green version) so non-bold red is a bad choice for replying to me (as in, I missed a couple of your replies initially and still may have missed some . . . . :-) - Original Message - From: YKY (Yan King Yin) To

Re: [agi] rule-based NL system

2007-04-28 Thread Benjamin Goertzel
I agree about developmental language learning combined with automated learning of grammar rules being the right approach to NLP. In fact, my first wife did her PhD work on this topic in 1994, at Waikato University in Hamilton New Zealand. She got frustrated and quite before finishing her degree,

Re: [agi] rule-based NL system

2007-04-28 Thread J. Storrs Hall, PhD.
I think YKY is right on this one. There was a Dave Barry column about going to the movies with kids in which a 40-foot image of a handgun appears on the screen, at which point every mother in the theater turns to her kid and says, "Oh look, he's got a GUN!" Communication in natural language is

Re: [agi] rule-based NL system

2007-04-28 Thread YKY (Yan King Yin)
On 4/27/07, Matt Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think learning in layers (A) is the correct approach, but also that it can be done from a corpus of adult level language, at least if you are training a pure, ungrounded language model. When parents use baby talk, they are actually using