Re: Review of Novamente & a2i2

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Sun May 05 2002 - 23:42:47 MDT


Ben Goertzel wrote:
>
> > > ANN's involve addressing concepts by *specifying part of their
> > contents* or
> > > *specifying a collection of related entities*.
> >
> > I see... they can't handle indexical relationships between an
> > auditory sound and a concept, then?
>
> They can but awkwardly. See Amit's book on Neural Networks -- no time to go
> into details now.

This was intended as a statement put in the form of a question; i.e., "Real
neural networks, i.e. us, can obviously address concepts by auditory tags."

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Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence



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