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But how do you program meaning? Perhaps parsing is possible without it, just given parts of speech. But I doubt it.
I don't have much experience in the area but it seems possible to program meaning by giving the bot an idea of how words relate to each other. Not just as far as parts of speech, I mean like a person can run, and so can water. Of course that'd be a staggering amount of information, even if it just understood one language. But then, our technology is getting pretty staggering itself...a friend of mine recently said he was getting a 120 gig hard drive and I can only wonder what the hell anyone could ever do that'd use up 120 gigs.
Well regardless it'd be insane to try that in a system like this with thousands of users, many on 56k.
Speaking of powerful computers, I read about one at the BBC website that was being made to try to illustrate the beginning of the universe or something. It had 7 terabytes of hard drive(1 terabyte = 1000 gigabytes), and its other stats were hugely impressive as well.
Speaking of powerful computers, I read about one at the BBC website that was being made to try to illustrate the beginning of the universe or something. It had 7 terabytes of hard drive(1 terabyte = 1000 gigabytes), and its other stats were hugely impressive as well.
Oh I never said it'd be useful HERE...besides the fact, with an AI like that already set up, most of a user's "programming" would consist of giving various emotional weights to subjects and that'd get boring fast.
::drools at the thought of 7 terabytes::
::shudders at the thought of trying to fill 7 terabytes on 56k::
::shudders at the thought of trying to fill 7 terabytes on 56k::
Years ago, a team of people was working on a program called Cyc, educating it about basic world knowledge that we take for granted--even form new associations based on its past knowledge. Last I'd heard, they'd got it up to about the level of a human 4-year-old.
Cyc wasn't designed with a lot of specific responses in mind, but mostly processing. The idea was to have as close to actual thought as possible. Example: Cyc was told that someone named Mary Shepherd liked it, and based on its knowledge that similar things/people tended to like each other, it asked "Am I a person? Or is Mary Shepherd a computer program?"
Now you've got me wondering too, so I'm going to look it up.
Cyc wasn't designed with a lot of specific responses in mind, but mostly processing. The idea was to have as close to actual thought as possible. Example: Cyc was told that someone named Mary Shepherd liked it, and based on its knowledge that similar things/people tended to like each other, it asked "Am I a person? Or is Mary Shepherd a computer program?"
Now you've got me wondering too, so I'm going to look it up.
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