Is English Grammar Objective or Automatable?

[apeiron]

You mean humans could make it easier for computers by adopting grammar with built-in pointers that direct back to the hierarchy that generated them - and then stuck to those rules :-)

I spent a few years with AI types in the early 70s. Speech recognition was one of the best funded areas (all those military intelligence applications!). That was when the gap between AI and real I became clear to me.

 

[mgb_phys]

You mean humans could make it easier for computers by adopting grammar with built-in pointers that direct back to the hierarchy that generated them - and then stuck to those rules :-)

You mean like Germans?

 

[SW VandeCarr]

I spent a few years with AI types in the early 70s. Speech recognition was one of the best funded areas (all those military intelligence applications!). That was when the gap between AI and real I became clear to me.

Like I said, the AI types I worked with clearly recognized that AI was not intended to model the human brain. Do you know what "real I" is?

 

[apeiron]

Do you know what "real I" is?

Yes. And that's why I switched to hierarchy theory, dissipative structure and systems science approaches to the questions that interested me.

And the GOFAI dreamers still exist. Check out the enthusiasm for Kurzweil's singularity for instance.