Leatherbound AI notes p15 (2003)

Leatherbound AI notes p15

Sunday, November 20, 2005

7:42 PM

AI needs to be able to communicate back to its instructor (External monitoring is an option  instead). I'm trying to avoid a conditioned response for not understanding. The actual  response should be learned behavior. I keep thinking back to training animals - if you want to  train an animal what "sit" means, you say the word and push on their hind quarters until they  are in a sitting position. (This is oversimplification)

The point is that core language evolves out of physical interaction. You can not physically  interact with a computer on the same level as a human, so language instruction will be  difficult at best.

Teaching language by way of the language without other assistance may be impossible  without a lot of innate traits. Imagine instructing a child by using only words on a screen.

I can see AI evolving from a point of knowledge of words but right now I'm having trouble  seeing it evolve -into- words.

What would motivate it to communicate?

[11/20/2005 At this point I'm WAY over thinking the problem. Yes it would be great if I could  come up with a mechanism that would allow AI to learn words by starting from zero, but that  would take too long. I think it will be necessary to start AI off with a small vocabulary that  will allow instruction. The vocabulary will be soft as opposed to hardwired so it can be  learned, unlearned and even evolve over time.]