Re: NPR, Godel, Semantic Web

[Jonathan Borden <jborden@mediaone.net>]

Simon St.Laurent wrote:
> >
> >It may well trip on authority, but this claim suggests that it also trips
> >on inherent limitations of logical processing.
>
> I should clarify this claim as it was made on the radio.
>
> It's not that such systems will return wrong answers - it's that there are
> right answers they cannot find.  How that would echo through a system or
> whether users would even notice the missing information isn't clear.
>
> Again, if anyone has a better explanation, I'd love to see one.
Otherwise,
> I guess I'll be calling NPR to track down the mathematician they were
> interviewed.
>

In my experience it trips on:

GIGO

no mathematics needed to understand that.

-Jonathan