Re: Reasoning in natural language (was Re: [agi] Books)

2007-06-11 Thread James Ratcliff
Interesting points, but I believe you can get around alot of the problems with two additional factors, a. using either large quantities of quality text, (ie novels, newspapers) or similar texts like newspapers. b. using a interactive built in 'checker' system, assisted learning where the AI

Re: Reasoning in natural language (was Re: [agi] Books)

2007-06-11 Thread Mike Dougherty
On 6/11/07, James Ratcliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Interesting points, but I believe you can get around alot of the problems with two additional factors, a. using either large quantities of quality text, (ie novels, newspapers) or similar texts like newspapers. b. using a interactive built in

Re: Reasoning in natural language (was Re: [agi] Books)

2007-06-11 Thread James Ratcliff
Correct, but I don't believe that systems (like Cyc) are doing this type of Active learning now, and it would help to gather quality information and fact-check it. Cyc does have some interesting projects where it takes a proposed statment and when a engineer is working with it, will go out

Re: Reasoning in natural language (was Re: [agi] Books)

2007-06-11 Thread Matt Mahoney
--- James Ratcliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Interesting points, but I believe you can get around alot of the problems with two additional factors, a. using either large quantities of quality text, (ie novels, newspapers) or similar texts like newspapers. b. using a interactive built in