SG6100 

This is a simple conversation that depends on the three key capabilities of HPD.

Cognitive Memory

Common-sense

and NLU Mathematics

Without these capabilities the only way to achieve such a human-quality conversation would be by ‘gaming’ the system i.e. designing a solution specifically for the test.

To pick just three key points:

Firstly, there is the issue of the anaphoric resolution of the three different meanings of ‘it…”.

Secondly, the cohesive effortless nature of the conversation.

Thirdly, there is the final common-sense answer when HPD replies with the user’s date of birth.

One could attempt this conversation on GPT or Gopher or any of the other large language models, but as all of them lack Cognitive Memory, Common-sense and

NLU Mathematics, there is no possibility of a human-quality conversation.

Perhaps the reader will therefore now appreciate why, as a result of my efforts to explain the essential requirement for Cognitive Memory, I am attracted to the DDFTTW example given the third party comments such as:

How can you possibly think this!

I have selected the Smoking Gun conversation, SG 6100, because it demonstrates many of the key issues of Natural Language Understanding.

Although much of human perception involves what is often called ‘the primacy of the first impression’, there is also the truth from signal processing that, as a general principle, delayed decision-making is the best approach.

Let us consider a simple example:

I climbed Ben Nevis yesterday

It ……………………………..

What does ‘it” stand for? We don’t know until ‘it’ no longer exists alone.