We Don't Need Another Mountain
There are mountains and hillsides enough to climb . There was a picture symbolising AI in a LinkedIn post, and in the background was “Natural Language Processing”. Why is it such an insignificant and insipid little creature when, used properly, it is almost all of AI, excluding vision. A natural language like English captures in a large but neat package Propositional Logic Existential Logic Temporal Logic Locational Logic And all the object5s and operators you could ever wish for, and some you didn’t know you needed, like quantum entanglement.. Jack and Jill went up the hill – conjunctions can assemble groups of objects, Jack fell down and broke his crown - groups of operators, groups of clauses, groups of chapters, groups of documents. Operators can provide feedback, feed forward, amplification, inversion – again, anything you can think of, and more besides. Sounds good, but isn’t it a bit complex? The world is complex. If the machine does what you do unconsciously, the co...
