[ExI] Symbol Grounding

[Brent Allsop]

Your model is based on a Naive Realism model.

Here is a representational model which will actually be possible without
magic:

[image: image.png]


On Fri, Apr 21, 2023 at 5:19 AM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Here is a diagram (because I'm generally a visual person, and can usually
> understand things if I can draw them):
>
>
>
> A very general, high-level and crude diagram that tries to illustrate the
> concept of 'symbol grounding' as I understand it, from these discussions
> we've been having. Plus an arrow representing output of speech or text, or
> anything really, that the system is capable of outputting (obviously
> there's a hell of a lot going on in every single element in the diagram,
> that I'm ignoring for simplicity's sake).
>
> As far as I understand, the 'symbol grounding' occurs between the
> conceptual models (built up from sensory inputs and memories) and the
> language centres (containing linguistic 'tokens', or symbols), as we've
> previously agreed.
>
> There are two arrows here because the models can be based on or include
> data from the language centres as well as from the environment. The symbols
> (tokens) in the language centres represent, and are 'grounded in', the
> conceptual models (these are the object and action models I've discussed
> earlier, and likely other types of models, too, and would include a
> 'self-model' if the system has one, linked to the token "I").
>
> The sensory inputs are of various modalities like vision, sounds, text,
> and so-on (whatever the system's sensors are capable of perceiving and
> encoding), and of course will be processed in a variety of ways to extract
> 'features' and combine them in various ways, etc.
>
> I didn't include something to represent Memory, to keep things as simple
> as possible.
>
> So, could we say that this diagram illustrates, in a very general way,
> what's going on in a human? in a LLM AI? Both? Neither?
>
> Would you say it's broadly correct, or missing something, or incorrect in
> another way?
>
> Ben
>
>
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