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This is a very interesting article, in particular because it brings up that whole Chomsky topic of the grammar hierarchy (see https://arxiv.org/pdf/2207.02098.p
by emiliano2022 4y ago
This is a very interesting article, in particular because it brings up that whole Chomsky topic of the grammar hierarchy (see https://arxiv.org/pdf/2207.02098.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/2207.02098.pdf). I've been intuiting that linguistics are at the root of AGI for sometime now, but there is a very unproductive resistance to Chomsky's ideas in the various communities that have topic overlap.
It really seems apparent, to me, that symbols (a universal grammar?) are needed in order to learn & adapt to the environment. If true, then the question becomes how to evolve that universality from nothing.
- NalNezumi 4y agoUnproductive resistance? The recent trends I've seen in embodied AI/ML applied to Robotics is to merge LLM to derive semantic connection for long-horizon tasks (Say-Can, Socratic models, CLIPort). At least structuring knowledge in linguistic matter (and thereby reach generalization) is a hot topic
- emiliano2022 4y agoI guess I am still annoyed at all that polemics built around that notion from within the pop-linguistics circuit. It may be that I am behind the curve on the state of community acceptance of Chomsky. And whereof Pearl's Bayesian Belief Networks? Nowhere in this discussion have I seen a mention of them. It would seem that they also have a role to play.