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Doug Lenat's sources for AM (and EURISKO+Traveller?) found in public archives

by white-flame on 11/25/23, 2:09 PM with 9 comments

• by cwillu on 11/25/23, 9:48 PM

  “For efficiency's sake, an intelligent system should be willing and able to add new facts, but should be {\it eager} to add surprising new facts. Surprises can only be noticed by contrast with {\it expectations}, so an intelligent system should maintain a context of expectations and filter incoming observations against that. Furthermore, expectations and surprises can aid an intelligent system in comparing its model and processing of the domain to the real world. Through such monitoring, discrepencies may be found and diagnosed, leading to changes in the model making it more consistent with observed behavior. Our discussion here centers on the importance of using such expectations to focus and filter intelligent processing.}

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  The world bombards our senses with data, much more than we can process in detail in real time; yet we can't live in a hundred times real time. We survive by ignoring most of that data, or, more precisely, by knowing (almost immediately deciding) what can be ignored. We maintain a set of expectations, against which the incoming torrent is matched. Almost all of it will match those expectations, and we then need merely process the unexpected inputs, the surprising observations. We reserve our computing for those opportunities which promise us genuine new facts, rather than reconfirmation of known ones.” -- COG3. listed under https://www.saildart.org/[AM,DBL]/

• by white-flame on 11/26/23, 5:48 AM

  I added a github repository for the core of AM: https://github.com/white-flame/am

  We still need to figure out which files compose EURISKO.

• by logicmoo on 11/25/23, 2:42 PM

  Holy S*it.. How many years has this been considered missing?