Saturday, March 1, 2014

Determining the outcome of the jokester's joke

I've recently read The Creative Mind by Margaret Boden. Although it was written a few years back it had many relevant points to consider. It talked about whether a computer can be creative. It argued that a computer cannot be creative because it used heuristics and specific instructions of what to look for. The book Social argues that the mind is always in the mode of social communications and that it does not turn off. Social argues that although a person is not born with social mechanisms in place it quickly develops social capacity as the mind adapts to its environment. It takes 10,000 hours of practice to become an expert in a speciality. The brain achieves this social learning by age 10. The book The Second Machine Age intoduces a paper called the division of labor that takes a look at what computers are capable of. The Second Machine Age argues that while computers are not capable of doing anything but what we tell it to do, if we have a good enough feature set we, such as Google's Chauffer project with driverless cars, they can be better than humans at determining how things should be. The Second Machine Age discusses what judgment is and the book Social talks about how many hours it takes before a human is socially compotent. Recently I listened to Sanjeev Arora http://youtu.be/0WX0h5fu0zs who gave the idea to look for association words that serve as a trap door for other words. For example in a paragraph that mentions "snow" connotates that that paragraph is about snow. This is very similar to the Zachman framework. If our feature set is good enough than like the Google Chauffer project that only had two accidents as of early 2014 including one the time a car was rear ended at a stop light, then natural sentence processing clear audio project can predict as Margaret Boden says predict the surprising punch line of Grandpa's unpredictable jokes. Research to be done: I am currently looking at the ways words are based on how they sound. I am looking heavily at music based word formation after reading Gondel, Eusher, Bach. It has long been known that in order to determine whether a grammar was correct or not, it should be orally pronounced.

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