From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@datamann.com)
Date: Thu Jun 21 2001 - 15:15:07 MDT
John Clark wrote:
> Interesting! I haven't heard anything about CYC for a while and I was starting to
> worry the entire thing was a failure. It seems to me that even if it's not the key to
> AI CYC could be very useful in translation and speech recognition. I think the
> trouble was that up to now programs had no idea what the words it heard
> meant, I'll bet even a human would be wrong at least 10% of the time in
> distinguishing between "I scream" and "ice cream" if he didn't have other
> words in a sentence like "whenever I see a rat I scream" to provide context
> and give clues. When a program can hear the words "this book has been red,
> but now it's painted blue" and know I meant "red" not "read" I'll be impressed.
At which point, it will be better than human, if its based on vocal input. Note: Eliezer
told me on our walk back from that burger joint that getting computers to understand
words was one of the biggest problems in AI. If CYC has it licked, then we must be moving
along just fine.
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