Re: Fw: New programming language - Extention

Hi Josh,

Maybe BUT.. I was actually hired to try something like that in Prolog, in 80's and early 90's. Trust me, we tried, it was very active, new ideas every day, a lot of people and companies working together, a lot of trying.  Very interesting times!

You can see the results in some systems, airlines, air controller systems, scheduling, logistics, etc but no Rosetta Stone was found.

I still believe that it is possible but the language is not important. Prolog is very nice but still limited to programming, if you know what I mean. You can do clever tricks, even more so in LISP which can be made self sufficient, bootstrapping itself, but still limited by you!

The problem, as I see, is that, as you mention, relations, etc, is that there is no technological solution, it is almost(?) philosophical. A technological solution has boundaries by default and AI (as our  brains) have none - expect, of course, preset experience, education, society, etc which (should) change and expand all the time.

have a nice day - tuomo

Josh Goldstein wrote:

Oh, now "the man" is trying to silence us! :P

I was actually wondering if you could do some type of AI program in Prolog.
One that would act sort of like the computer in Star Trek.
You could ask it questions and it would answer based on info you had told it before.
I imagine it would store relations like isSynonym(run, jog) and likesTo(jog, josh)
and you could ask it if josh likes o run and it would say yes.
Is this feasible?
I'm guessing there must be some huge problem or someone would have done it already.

----- Original Message ----
From: Tom Breton (Tehom) tehom@...
Cc: prolog@...
Sent: Friday, May 2, 2008 1:58:27 PM
Subject: Re: [SWIPL] New programming language - Extention

Guys, the "New programming language - Extention" thread has drifted pretty
far away from the topic of SWI Prolog.  May I suggest continuing it in
email?

Tom



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