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Lojban++: An Interlingua for Communication between Humans and AGIs

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Artificial General Intelligence (AGI 2013)

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Lojban is a constructed language based on predicate logic, with no syntactic ambiguity and carefully controllable semantic ambiguity. It originated in the middle of the last century, and there is now a community of several hundred human speakers. It is argued here that Lojban++, a minor variation on Lojban, would be highly suitable as a language for communication between humans and early-stage AGI systems. Software tools useful for the deployment of Lojban++ in this manner are described, and their development proposed.

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    Ben Goertzel

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  1. University of Osnabrück, Albrechtstr. 28, Germany

    Kai-Uwe Kühnberger

  2. Technische Universität Dresden, 01069, Dresden, Germany

    Sebastian Rudolph

  3. Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA

    Pei Wang

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Goertzel, B. (2013). Lojban++: An Interlingua for Communication between Humans and AGIs. In: Kühnberger, KU., Rudolph, S., Wang, P. (eds) Artificial General Intelligence. AGI 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7999. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39521-5_3

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