Re: PHIL/AI: Humongous Lookup Table

Michael Lorrey (retroman@tpk.net)
Tue, 18 Feb 1997 18:12:17 -0500


CurtAdams@aol.com wrote:
>
> arara@shamanics.com (Hara Ra) writes:
>
> >CurtAdams@aol.com wrote:
> >
> >> The lookup table will quickly be
> >> exposed as having no ability to respond to novelty, if you choose to ckeck
> >> that.
>
> >Not. It all depends on the addressing, and if the table's reply is
> >included in the next address to the table an indefinite sequence of
> >varying replies can be constructed.
>
> >In other words, the table uses the entire previous conversation as its
> >input, which serves as a memory of what went before.
>
> I wasn't discussing the hypothetical "ultimate lookup table", which would
> have all possible conversations recorded. My point was in reference to any
> possible lookup table, which necessarily can have only a very limited set
> (and in particular to a table made by recording very many actual
> conversations).
>
> With any real table it will be easy to construct a sentence that isn't in its
> lookup database, thereby blowing its response and the rest of the
> conversation.

The solution is to operate with more than one type of lookup table, sort
of a super thesaurus/dictionary. One table for definitions, one for
synonyms, one for antonyms, slang, plus grammatical logic, as well as a
mathematics/english translator (which can for example extract data and
operators from a paragraph structure for actual calculation).

Given this, one such AI could even deal with new information by
analysing it and analogizing it to existing knowledge.

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