Delicious LiveJournal Links for 3-6-2009

[andrewducker]

• http://www.guardian.co.uk/users/warrenellis
  Nice disclaimer or two :->
  (tags: funny WarrenEllis)
• Be sure to mind when you change your mind
  When people have their minds changed they remember having _always_ had the new position...
  (tags: psychology opinion memory mind)
• Stephen Wolfram announces that he's solved AI.
  Well, he pretty much does. Let's just say that I'm deeply sceptical of what he is claiming.
  (tags: computing technology mathematics)

Comments

[the-locster.livejournal.com]

"Meaning" requires AI, from my understanding. The ability to parse plain English generally requires likewise.

I agree. You need intelligence to determine context and unravel the true meaning. It's not a simple parsing but an iterative process (between high level thought and low level parsing) that homes in on (gradient descent, minimizing error, etc) the correct or most likely meaning.

I largely suspect Occam's razor applies here. Given the competing hypotheses that Wolfram has cracked it Vs. Wolfram is a nutball, my money is on option B :)

[andrewducker]

I'm with you there.

It'd be lovely to be proved wrong, of course :->