Chatbots from first principles

Words then point to shared ideas in our minds [Gärdenfors, 2014]. 5. Language as shared convention A B Wittgenstein and his language games, Philosophical Investigations, 1958 block pillar slab beam Two people building something. Eventually turns into a shared convention for a community 6. Our brains map community conventions to personal sensations and actions sensation representation action • When someone says "beam," we map that to our experience with beams. See: Benjamin Bergen, Steven Pinker, Mark Johnson, Jerome Feldman, and Murray Shanahan "beam" This is what is means for language to be grounded. We negotiate language and meaning as we go Modified from Gärdenfors (2014), which was based on Winter (1998) A fishing pole is a stick, string and hook You can catch fish with a fishing pole Get me some fish Acknowledgement Acknowledgement Break Break • Levels of discourse • Complicated to go up and down the pyramid 9. Conversation has its own rules (pragmatics) • Conversational maxims: Grice (1975, 1978) • Breaking these rules is a way to communicate more than the meaning of the words. Maxim of Quantity: Say only what is not implied. What did she mean by that?