On Apr 23, 2014, at 9:47 AM, John F Sowa wrote:
The intro summarizes the
arguments for the
controversial claim that human-level AI is possible
with a knowledge
representation based on natural language.
And what about the issue that a goodly slice of human
communications is decidedly NOT natural language?
Acronyms, local jargon, industry slang, puns, etc.
I'm specifically thinking of your VivoMind effort where
you well know the closer one comes to the "coal face" (the
working system) the weaker the correlation to human
language as found in commonly accessible
dictionaries/glossaries. Wasn't something like "computer"
used as a mythical "person" to charge billable time to?
All I'm arguing is that unnatural language is part of
the challenge, along with natural language (which is
challenging enough). To ignore unnatural language is
artificially simplifying the problem.
Example:
- the specifications for a software product are likely a
mix of natural language & localisms