Practical AI and Language (Again)

[vap0rtranz]

I was making a list of fictional AI machines (for my on-going interest in mind-mapping) and bumped into an awesome, vintage program: SHRDLU. The program's resurrected description verifies my insistence that language is inexorably related to the construction of reality.  We place immutable, metaphysical limitations on our world, as is evident by

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[keylomapus]

I learned their language to talk to them

[vap0rtranz]

lol! Awesome. And they're rainbow colored.

That's your favorite comic, aye?

[keylomapus]

I have a few favorite. The website has tons of drawings.

So I see you're posting in the future. The time stamp is for 12.54 PM, today.....which hasn't taken place. I think you have a very special power....

[vap0rtranz]

eh? It's says "08:54am", but you can post in the future ...

[confliction]

Thought you'd enjoy this :)

Steven Pinker on language and thought.

[vap0rtranz]

This is the 2nd time the Ideas lectures have been forwarded by someone and the 2nd time Pinker has been forwarded. Interesting. That wasn't you was it? Surely not ...

[vap0rtranz]

P.S. I don't particularly like anyone who allies with Richard Dawkins's dogmatism. :P Steven Hawking's crew -- much more balanced approach.

[confliction]

I don't think it was me :/

I'm not aware of Pinker's ideologies or professional ties or whatever... i'm an avid TEDster though =) Wish i could be on there one day...