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>if I can ask a robot to give me the red ball and it gives me the red ball or if I can ask for a picture of a red car it seems to me those machines understand t
by thfuran 4y ago
>if I can ask a robot to give me the red ball and it gives me the red ball or if I can ask for a picture of a red car it seems to me those machines understand the word "red" from a practical perspective
But now you're presupposing an embodied machine with (at least somewhat humanlike) color vision. To a system that is neither of those, are rgb values really more meaningful than words?
- PaulHoule 4y agoYes, insofar as they have a defined semantics in terms of industry standards, in particularly exchange data meaningfully with conventional software. From that point of view a system can also demonstrate "understanding" by the act of converting text into database records. Imagine a system that reads a newspaper article about a sports game and extracts: the teams, who won, where was the game played, what was the score? A lot of grounding is accomplished by normalizing "New England" and "Patriots" to "New England Patriots" or better yet <https://dbpedia.org/page/New_England_Patriots https://dbpedia.org/page/New_England_Patriots>. That is, embedding in a formal system is an embodiment subject to the discipline of that universe as opposed to that of an animal in ours. If it were possible to reliably extract facts from text, humans would no problem applying logic and databases to ask questions like "how many cars are in the rental lot right now?"