Re: [sl4] How much do languages matter for AGI programming?

From: Philip Hunt (cabalamat@googlemail.com)
Date: Sat Nov 29 2008 - 12:47:57 MST


2008/11/29 Matt Mahoney <matmahoney@yahoo.com>:
>> You are making the incorrect assumption that I have a design for AI. I
>> don't. Although I do have a few ideas about how AI could be achieved.
>
> Then why worry about programming languages at this point? People are most productive in the languages they already know. That's why I suggested natural language.

My computer doesn't understand English, so using it is a non-starter.
And once we get programs that understand human languages, the job of
making an AGI is 99% done.

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