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2023: The Year of Understanding Theory

Cybernetics was a name before AI was coined, and it is probably a better label for that science. John McCarthy created Artificial…

16 min readJan 5, 2023

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2023: The Year of Understanding Theory

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The 2023 Breakthrough Challenge for NLU

Solve these 3 simple theoretical tests to demonstrate human-like NLU. It’s possible with the science of linguistics — as explained by Role…

7 min readDec 17, 2022

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The 2023 Breakthrough Challenge for NLU

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2022 NLU: Year in Review

Was 2022 the year AGI became evident, with Google’s LaMDA being a sentient machine — or was it a year of increasing hype and desperation…

10 min readDec 15, 2022

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2022 NLU: Year in Review

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5 years after beating Facebook’s bAbI

PAT achieved 100%, and found errors in machine learning training data, on Facebook’s intelligent dialog tests 5 years ago. A fundamental…

5 min readNov 17, 2022

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5 years after beating Facebook’s bAbI

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Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)

AGI will come from brain emulation like Patom Theory (PT), a theoretical brain model, since human intelligence is a feature of our brain.

13 min readNov 4, 2022

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Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)

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NLU and Consciousness

Natural Language Understanding (NLU) doesn’t rely on consciousness, nor do most other brain functions. That was my premise in 1999 as I…

10 min readOct 28, 2022

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NLU and Consciousness

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Fixing Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) with NLU

Why doesn’t speech recognition operate at human-levels?

10 min readOct 22, 2022

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Fixing Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) with NLU

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Goal-oriented AI for Airlines

Facebook said: “… goal-oriented dialog is … too hard, the stakes are too high … the wrong plane, the wrong flight, that’s a very big…

4 min readOct 10, 2022

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Goal-oriented AI for Airlines

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Good, Bad & Ugly: Innovation in Round-the-world

The new oneworld system is amazing, using our design features as discussed earlier here to improve their round-the-world ticketing. The…

7 min readOct 2, 2022

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Good, Bad & Ugly: Innovation in Round-the-world

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Airlines adds “Next Generation” Conversational AI

The oneworld round-the-world (RTW) system we designed in 2020 is now online in Beta! This ushers in the Next Generation Conversational AI…

8 min readSep 30, 2022

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Airlines adds “Next Generation” Conversational AI

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John Ball

John Ball

I'm a cognitive scientist working on NLU (Natural Language Understanding) systems based on RRG (Role and Reference Grammar). A mouthful, I know!

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