This talk is based on imagination and my limited knowlege about AI
What is AI anyway?
The definition should be simple
Two definitions:
Machines that help human do various tasks. This is the ultimate goal.
"The study is to proceed on the basis of the conjecture that every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can in principle be so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it"(McCarthy et al., 1955)
The definition of AI is vague. In fact, all computer programmers are doing AI by the first definition. That's why ...
Definition 1: Computer as Human Helper
What is the most successful computer application by far?
Claim: The Web (or Internet) is essetial in AI research. Old approaches to AI didn't produce anything useful (yet).
Definition 2: Human-like behaviors
Human-Computer Correspondence in the framework of the Semantic Web:
Human
Computer
memory
memory (RAM or disk)
learn(phase1)
fetch RDF triples
explore
walk randomly on the RDF graph on the Web
think
run programs/rules
ask (a question)
SPARQL
anwser
respond to SPARQL
teach
SPARQL update
forget
drop off RDF triples(not implemented)
ask (to do something)
??
Too many jargons, we'll come back later after some explanation.
Learning
Definition: Learning consists of two phases:
Acquring phase - get data from the outside world
Think and prepare to answer unexpected questions
Let's consider a single computer as a person.
He/she can't not learn new things unless you tell him/her something (keyboard input, etc.), or...
He/she fetches data from the Internet.
Claim Again: There is no much learning unless there's internet. No learning, no AI.
Learning (continued)
In fact, there's a learning system on everyone's computer known as Web cache.
A bunch of documents.
The computer cannot integrate the data on all the collected documents because...
It does not have enough intelligence to understand human language. Why? Becuase it haven't learned anything yet. Why? It does not have intelligence to understand human sentences on those collected documents. Why? ...
Let's feed the computer with something easier (i.e. language which has simpler syntax and no exotic rules). Let's make the computer able to answer some new question.
