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1) As I previously commented, if I ask my robot grocer to give me three
red apples, I don't actually care how it "understands" what I say, my
measure of success is whether I get what I ask for. I suppose this is a
strongly behaviourist view. (02)
2) I would rather approach the topic from a game theory perspective,
asking how does the benefit of correct understanding compare with the
cost of misunderstanding? Thus I might take the risk of getting the
wrong pizza, (risk, getting a pizza I don't like) but not of buying the
wrong aircraft part (risk, large numbers of deaths). (03)
3) While I am not uninterested in the discussion, I must say that I am
disinterested (though I appreciate there has been some semantic drift in
recent years), and therefore don't have time to read it in the detail I
would like. (04)
4) For me a more interesting question is what can ontologies do
reliably? and how reliably? (05)
Sean Barker
BAE SYSTEMS - Advanced Technology Centre
Bristol, UK
+44(0) 117 302 8184 (06)
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