Message-Id: Subject: Re: TECH.REV: Semantic Analyser Proposal To: nsn@MULLIAN.EE.MU.OZ.AU Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1993 11:50:05 -0500 (EST) From: Simon Janes aka "Guru Aleph-Null" X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 This sounds great. It makes me think of the Cyc project. I'm not sure if they are using Prolog or Lisp, but for the last several years they have been putting in "common sense" into a machine-- but they have had to do it by translating English-->AI-Rules when they teach it and AI-Rules-->English when they make queries. They have Cyc run overnight "thinking" and making up new rules (People come in the morning, look at what Cyc "thought" and then tell Cyc whether or not it makes any sense. One instance they told Cyc that "Where you work has influence on what you want to eat." was wrong-- I disagreed with that because if you worked at a pizza parlor, chinese-food place, or fried-chicken joint, very likely you would not want to eat the same kind of food you worked with everyday.) If People instead could just talk with the "machine" and have the machine talk back and wait for a go'i or a correction, people with the special knowledge to program in the AI-language to teach the machine would not be needed. But then of course, many of you probably already knew this. :) They say that Cyc has the common sense/intelligence of about a seven-year old kid. You can ask it questions and it will answer like a seven-year old kid. Now for a quickie translation (this is a first try...) la zepi. <> Zippy says "Are we having fun yet?" I'm am not sure if I am getting this right-- especially for the concept of "yet"... I'm copy-catting 'quoting' from what I have seen on some CAFE postings and I am not posivite if lu ... li'u really are "quotes". -- -------------------------------------+------------------------------------ Simon "Guru Aleph-Null" Janes |"Push dem little daisies and make spj@ukelele.gcr.com | em come up..." Simon.Janes@f305.n109.z1.Fidonet.Org | |