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From: Joscha Bach Sent: Sunday, September 6, 2015 9:09 PM To: Jeffrey E. Subject: Re: Am 06.09.20=5 urn 16:23 schrieb jeffrey E. <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]»: <=iv dir="ltr">l dont want statistical modeling exactly. the trick will be to find a challenge t=at cannot be cracked with more statistics alone you and ben for years have sta=ed you wanted to put an avatar, and hope it can do things a 2 year old can=do. the challenge is learning a language. &nbs=; different that moving blocks in a video game. On Sun, Sep 6, 2015 at 2=38 PM, Joscha Bach wrote: This challenge idea is excellent; I really love it= > first draft. of the Chomsky Challenge. .=nbsp; Produce a non- living system that can be put into an environmen= for a while and --- 1. be able to dis=riminate language from noise. . prize . = a 1dollar bill signed by Noam and 100k. What is the system allowed to have when it starts? We would need to define t=e environment, for instance text based or audio, or movies/youtube. Once th= contestants know the environment, they can use standard machine learning m=thods to discern entropy in the signal, and separate language-like noise fr=m non language-like noise. Google does this pretty well, and automatically (rut not perfectly) sub-title videos in a number of languages. I imagine you want to go beyond that? > . 2. be able to discriminate coherent sen=ences from non ( we provide 10 test sentences =). I suspect that this is harder, Noam might point out that a lot of grammatica=ly well-formed sentences used in politics are not coherent ;-) > prize a 10 dollar signed Chomsky bill , and 500=. 3. a language learning module. Build a system that is able to learn a new language without hand-coding, and=translate sentences from this language into English and back? Excellent! EFTA_R1_01387977 EFTA02377464  > 20 dollar bill signed and 1 million, 4. a sense making modu=e that can understand meaning inference. . etc. the non r=commendation recommendation. . ie the student=has a nice family. etc. a 100 dollar signed bill and 10 million=dollars. ?--- > > lets also do a minsky challenge and if you want martin a NOVAK ch=llenge. Yes! Let us ask Marvin and Martin about the biggest unsolved problems in the=r field. please no=e The information contained in this communication is confidentia=, may be attorney-client privileged, may constitute inside information, a=d is intended only for the use of the addressee. It is the property ofJEE Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this communication or=any part thereof is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have=received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> , and destroy this communication a=d all copies thereof, including all attachments. copyright -all rights r=served 2 EFTA_R1_01387978 EFTA02377465