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

[nmg.livejournal.com]

re: Wolfram, I'm getting a bit of a Nouveau AI-flavoured CYC feel about this.

[jccw.livejournal.com]

Yeah, this does sound a lot like Cyc and/or the "Semantic" Web reheated, neither of which are anywhere near to working. The problem with Wolfram is that he seems even more susceptible to "not invented here" syndrome than most smart people.

I was just talking to an AI prof here who said something interesting about how the Cyc people started out being totally ad hoc and hacking away and eventually *needed* to adopt better principles for modular and higher-order reasoning - all those things that us crazy PL and logic researchers have been going on about.