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Re: Conformity of artificial intelligence with normal English usage

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"Mentifex" <mentifex@myuw.net> wrote in message 
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As computers with artificial intelligence (AI)
engage in natural language processing (NLP),
they at first sound clumsy and downright alien
in their speech patterns. In a recent Usenet post at

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/msg/4aa8aa23e84fca9f

we told the JavaScript AI Mind that language
is a tool, and the AI kept inserting the article “a”
into its otherwise intelligent observations:

Robot: WHAT IS A TOOL
Human: a tool is anything

Robot: TOOL IS A ANYTHING

English word usage generally requires that an
abstract noun like “truth” or “courage” be used
without an article, so we have re-programmed

http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/AiMind.html

with the linguistically drastic measure of
implementing a "split-singular number" by
having singular nouns indicated by "0" or "1"
while plural nouns are indicated only by "2".
The result? The world’s first True AI now treats
all new nouns initially as having a grammatical number
of zero, until a human user switches the engram
from zero to one by using "a" before the noun,
as for example by saying "You have a quality"
instead of just "You have quality". Try it.

Mentifex (Arthur)
--
http://aimind-i.com
http://cyborg.blogspot.com
http://code.google.com/p/mindforth
http://www.chatbots.org/ai_zone/viewthread/240/


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A NLP with no internal dictionary?????

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Conformity of artificial intelligence with normal English usage Mentifex <mentifex@myuw.net> - 2011-11-07 13:48 -0800
  Re: Conformity of artificial intelligence with normal English usage "Joel Olson" <joel.olson@cox.net> - 2011-11-07 17:44 -0600

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