It’s pretty ridiculous that SIAI thinks it’s a good idea to use Lojban to teach programs about ethics. The distinctive feature of Lojban is that it’s easy to parse; but nowadays we have kinda decent natural language parsers. I used a constructed language to communicate with my class project in college, but only because I didn’t want to bother with figuring out how to use an English parser, and because I knew no one but me would ever talk to it.
It’s pretty ridiculous that SIAI thinks it’s a good idea to use Lojban to teach programs about ethics.
I’d bet a fair amount of money that the Lojban thing was Ben Goertzel’s idea and a lot more that nobody at SIAI who is going to actually be doing FAI research thinks this is an even remotely good idea.
It’s pretty ridiculous that SIAI thinks it’s a good idea to use Lojban to teach programs about ethics. The distinctive feature of Lojban is that it’s easy to parse; but nowadays we have kinda decent natural language parsers. I used a constructed language to communicate with my class project in college, but only because I didn’t want to bother with figuring out how to use an English parser, and because I knew no one but me would ever talk to it.
I’d bet a fair amount of money that the Lojban thing was Ben Goertzel’s idea and a lot more that nobody at SIAI who is going to actually be doing FAI research thinks this is an even remotely good idea.
In my opinion, these still have a long way to go. (Panel #3 is my personal favorite.)