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Anyone who has studied old-school AI will know that this is an incredibly ambitious project; it is essentially throwing itself at the problem of "knowledge fram

Anyone who has studied old-school AI will know that this is an incredibly ambitious project; it is essentially throwing itself at the problem of "knowledge frames", i.e. how to encode information about the world in a way that an AI system can access it and, well, be intelligent about it. (Also at the problem of natural language generation, but as hard as that is, at the moment it seems like the easier of the two.) But... One of the biggest problems with a lot of the old "Big AI" projects that were developing some sort of knowledge frames (and there were several, and some of them still exist and have public faces) was, who the hell is going to get all the info in there in a way that's complete enough to be useful? Now you have a learning problem on top of the knowledge representation problem. But throw the wikimedia community at it and crowdsource the information? This actually starts to seem plausible.

dannyw 6y ago
Even if it's not successful, there's certainly enough interest in it to make it worth trying. Maybe we only get 30% of the way. So what? That's 30% more than zero!
- Tistron 6y ago
  Technically, 30% more than zero is still zero though. But yeah 30% of the way more than zero is something :-)
tasogare 6y ago
Yes, and the paper do only lists 2 relevant references regarding the decades of work in this domain.
skybrian 6y ago
It seems more similar to an elaborate version of the internationalization and translation of messages done in any program that targets multiple languages? If you think of it as a principled template language for generating text from the results of canned database queries, it starts seeming a lot more feasible. The templates themselves do need to be translated into every language, much like the messages in internationalization. Ideally this enables something like an improved version of the ICU library, with a lot more data available.
heavenlyblue 6y ago
How is that different from Wolfram Alpha?

dannyw 6y ago

Even if it's not successful, there's certainly enough interest in it to make it worth trying. Maybe we only get 30% of the way. So what? That's 30% more than zero!

Tistron 6y ago
Technically, 30% more than zero is still zero though. But yeah 30% of the way more than zero is something :-)

tasogare 6y ago

Yes, and the paper do only lists 2 relevant references regarding the decades of work in this domain.

skybrian 6y ago

It seems more similar to an elaborate version of the internationalization and translation of messages done in any program that targets multiple languages? If you think of it as a principled template language for generating text from the results of canned database queries, it starts seeming a lot more feasible. The templates themselves do need to be translated into every language, much like the messages in internationalization. Ideally this enables something like an improved version of the ICU library, with a lot more data available.

heavenlyblue 6y ago

How is that different from Wolfram Alpha?