[grey_whiskers]

I think as neural nets get more complex,...the question to my mind is when and if they become capable of learning on their own; of abstraction; of speech.

Two further problems at that point become "nature vs. nurture" -- take the exact same "virgin" neural network and pre-load certain concepts into it.

a) can the concepts be overridden completely, or are they retained though distorted (good luck finding metrics to quantify this)

b) how does the 'auto didactic mode' ...you know, as it is assumed to work in humans ... have to do with socialization, as well as input such as TV, radio, and books.

Can one introduce a language and cognition of all nouns and verbs, without value judgments? (The temptation to cheat on such experiments, as in voter fraud in Dem strongholds, would be *enormous*.)

[lizma2]

Can one introduce a language and cognition of all nouns and verbs, without value judgments?

How about many? Isn’t that Siri, Alexa and Now?

Trying to get a rudimentary handle on A.I.