+1 Sincerely, Rich Cooper EnglishLogicKernel.com Rich AT EnglishLogicKernel DOT com 9 4 9 \ 5 2 5 - 5 7 1 2 From: ontolog-forum-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ontolog-forum-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Adrian Walker Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2014 9:12 AM To: [ontolog-forum] Subject: Re: [ontolog-forum] Advances in Cognitive Systems Hi John & All,
Some time ago, John McCarthy wrote words to the effect "what's needed is to think about how to do advanced AI, rather than building systems based on our current approaches" Agree? Cheers, Adrian
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On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 11:29 AM, John F Sowa <sowa@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Volume 3, September 2013 to August 2014, of the Journal _Advances in Cognitive Systems_ is available for free download:
http://www.cogsys.org/journal/volume-3/
The editor, Pat Langley, proposed four research challenges that are more realistic than the Turing test:
http://www.cogsys.org/pdf/paper-9-3-37.pdf
Following are the four challenges:
1. A synthetic entertainer -- a singer-songwriter that people would enjoy listening to.
2. A synthetic attorney that would interview a client, gather information, plan a defense, interact with the judge and witnesses, and prepare and present a closing argument.
3. A synthetic politician that would analyze information about current issues, write and deliver speeches, answer questions, and participate in debates with other candidates.
4. A synthetic teacher that would compose lectures on a subject, present them to students, answer questions during or after the lectures, generate exercises and tests, and grade the answers.
When the movie _2001: A Space Odyssey_ came out in 1968, Marvin Minsky, who had been a technical adviser for it, said that the HAL 9000 was a "conservative estimate" of the state of the art of AI in 2001.
An AI system with the abilities of HAL could do a respectable job as an entertainer, attorney, politician, or teacher. But there is no research prototype today that comes remotely close.
I'm not sure about the practical value of synthetic politician, but any AI system that could do even a subset of the tasks that Langley lists for the attorney or teacher would be extremely valuable.
Why can't AI do those tasks today? What kind of R & D would help?
John
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