Have you ever noticed that sometimes humans in conversation or writing will simply come up with a new word to describe something? You know like an invent-a-word? Of course we know that when humans do this that they do so from looking for a word to express a thought, yet cannot find the right word handy so they simply invent one, which is a relative approximation. This is something humans do often without giving it a whole lot of thought and generally when people do this, we do not bother to say anything as we understand exactly what they are talking about. But how can we teach a robot or an artificial intelligent machine to do this? Could we simply teach it to use an alphabet and begin by teaching it the ABCs? Sounds pretty crazy teaching a machine to think in that way? Well, imagine what the first human thought or you yourself were thinking as you learned to express 4-dimensional thought using symbols to make up words to put onto a 2-dimensional piece of paper? By golly it is a silly method indeed isnt it? Should we teach robots and artificial intelligent machines to do the same or do we hold shorts as not to clutter them with crap? Interesting isnt it? Well there are some artificial intelligent machines which are being taught human languages and symbols, letters to read and spell and even communicate and you might be surprised to find out that they are able to indeed create new words and actually use them semantically correct, well, if they were actually words, they would fit right in, just like humans do? If you like discussing subject like this perhaps you might wish to join an online think tank? Consider this in 2006. |
