From: Joscha Bach To: Jeffrey Epstein <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Date: Sun, 06 Sep 2015 18:38:13 +0000 This challenge idea is excellent; I really love it! > first draft. of the Chomsky Challenge.. Produce a non- living system that can be put into an environment for a while and --- 1 . be able to discriminate language from noise.. prize . a 1 dollar bill signed by Noam and 100k. What is the system allowed to have when it starts? We would need to define the environment, for instance text based or audio, or movies/youtube. Once the contestants know the environment, they can use standard machine learning methods to discern entropy in the signal, and separate language-like noise from non language-like noise. Google does this pretty well, and automatically (but not perfectly) sub-title videos in a number of languages. I imagine you want to go beyond that? > . 2. be able to discriminate coherent sentences from non ( we provide 10 test sentences ). I suspect that this is harder, Noam might point out that a lot of grammatically well-formed sentences used in politics are not coherent ;-) > prize a 10 dollar signed Chomsky bill , and 500k. 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! > 20 dollar bill signed and 1 million, 4. a sense making module that can understand meaning inference.. etc. the non recommendation 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 challenge. Yes! Let us ask Marvin and Martin about the biggest unsolved problems in their field. EFTA00846948