Re: [ontolog-forum] Toward Human-Level Artificial Intelligence

[Gary Berg-Cross <gbergcross@xxxxxxxxx>]

David,

I'm not at all sure that what you call unnatural language is unnatural at all.  Sure we invent acronyms, but

that seems a natural part of our communication (and cognition), just simplifying he signs to convey our intentions and understanding.

One may think of communication about what we consider real world objects rather than imaginary one, but the language used still might be natural in the exercise of communication.

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On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 10:06 AM, David Eddy <deddy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

John -

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 CEO's shareholder letter is natural language

- the specifications for a software product are likely a mix of natural language & localisms

- the actual code is likely to be very heavily unnatural language.

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