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I think if AGI were possible from the basic statistical NLP techniques outlined in most advanced NLP textbooks, it would have already happened a decade ago.
by orthoganol 10y ago
I think if AGI were possible from the basic statistical NLP techniques outlined in most advanced NLP textbooks, it would have already happened a decade ago.
- Houshalter 10y agoI'm not saying it is possible from just basic statistical NLP techniques. It may take much more advanced techniques. And it may take much more computing power than we have even now. But I do believe it is possible, someday. Probably within our lifetime.
- orthoganol 10y agoI certainly think AGI is possible. I just don't think Word2vec, RNN's, i.e. stuff from the NLP textbooks, is in the same ballpark as what it will take to achieve. Edit - To be more clear I also agree AGI could be possible with text as the only input. I just think we need a new paradigm. Ostensibly AGI is meant to mimic human intelligence (minus the pitfalls), so IMO, the best approach will be that which mimics the underlying processes of human intelligence - not just the results. Traditional statistical NLP methods will probably have some role in this final system, but not the heart of it, as far as mimicking intelligence by mimicking intelligence's underlying processes goes.