Fundamental Compressionist Philosophy.

[Andrew Stanworth]

| > I understand that much of academic computing, especially artificial
| > intelligence, has come from a linguistic standpoint (which I feel is too
| > restrictive a landscape - but that's my view),
|
| I am not sure about linguistics figuring very large in computing and AI.
| Originally, research into computing was driven by mathematics and it was
| only relatively late that people realised that computers could be used for
| non-mathematical applications. Computational linguistics is only a part of
| AI and there are huge areas dealing with things like computer vision,
| pattern recognition, experts systems, computer chess (and other games),
| planning and problem solving etc.
|

Goes without saying - it's my turn to be splattered for being imprecise - I
was thinking about programming languages and human like intelligence in
(again very imprecisely) a Turing test way (and perhaps my dislike of pure
linguistic approaches (and programming languages built on them) makes them
seem to have been more prevalent than perhaps they are, I hope so!).

It's not worth talking about, let alone arguing about.  I just wanted to say
I am aware of the various applications - even if it didn't look like it :-})

I think the use of 'symbolic' is broadly fine, it just needs a couple jazzy
sounding qualifiers to give it a better specificity.

Andrew.