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We'll believe it when AI begins negotiations. The meaning of human language is to do with having an effect on the world, having a perception of the world, and
by hyperpallium2 5y ago
We'll believe it when AI begins negotiations.
The meaning of human language is to do with having an effect on the world, having a perception of the world, and having motivations related to the world - such as conquest, subjugation, hearing lamentations etc.
It seems possible to have the information content of language without the above extension in the world. Information is "just" combinations of patterns.
Humans need surprisingly little data to learn language. If we can discover our internal presumptions (a priori probabilities), AI mightn't need so much data either.
- IIAOPSW 5y agoI'm working on a side project right now where one of the applications is a platform to have AI engage in negotiation without a general purpose natural language. My project is an extension of the order writing system in Diplomacy into a domain specific language. I call it Dipspeak (like Newspeak from 1984). Dipspeak is a language for a universe where the only physical things are bits of plastic on a map of Europe and the only physical interactions between bits of plastic are hold, move, support and convoy.
- srcreigh 5y agoThis thesis implies language carries all of the meaning required to have an effect on the world. To use a crude metaphor, language could be just an API schema. Is there content accessible via the schema that is more meaningful than the schema itself? For APIs, yes. I think so for language too. Not to mention the possibility of side channels. That, at the same moment any human reads any text, they receive extra information to help them understand that information.