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

From: Matt Mahoney (matmahoney@yahoo.com)
Date: Sat Nov 29 2008 - 13:58:43 MST


--- On Sat, 11/29/08, Philip Hunt <cabalamat@googlemail.com> wrote:

> 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.

No, it is 0.001% done. You will have encoded 10^9 out of 10^17 bits, although those first 10^9 bits will be 1000 times more expensive to code than the rest.

-- Matt Mahoney, matmahoney@yahoo.com



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