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From: malcolm@geog.leeds.ac.uk (Malcolm McMahon)
Subject: Re: More on the Verb Problem
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ba672@lafn.org (Arthur T. Murray) wrote:



>This design for artificial intelligence will lead to AI robots if
>enough people see the design and it is not proven to be in error.

>Note that only the CONCEPTS of words exist in the semantic memory,
>while the speakable, phonetic words move about in auditory memory.
>Grammar works silently, and you hear the results inside your mind.


Oh, for heaven's sake you write as if natural language parsing with
formal rules was the be all and end all of AI whereas, as far as I can
see, it's an interesting sideline which has been pretty much done to
death starting 20 years ago.

ITS NOT THE HARD PART, and in any case formal grammars are probably
not the way to go. The hard things are things like ideation and the
various kinds of memory. Even a speach act is a transaction which
depends far more on assumptions about the state of mind of the person
being spoken to than it does about arranging words.

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