> Sneps is one of the most long-lasting AI project. I met Stuart > Shapiro in a > conference a few years ago, and he seems like my work, which is unusual > among mainstream AI big-names. ;-) > > In my opinion, their strength is in knowledge representation and its > relation to NLP, but reasoning/learning is their weakness (which > is true for > all semantic-network-based systems). > > Pei
Since his semantic network is explicitly mapped into his variant of paraconsistent predicate logic, I guess the fact that he uses a "semantic network" metaphor/data-structure is incidental to the weakness of his reasoning/learning mechanism.. I see nothing in Sneps that deals with uncertainty robustly, and nor do I see any mechanism capable of controlling the course of inference in nontrivial situations... I am impressed that they have actually taken the step of integrating their logic-based memory, inference and learning framework with a real system with sensors and actuators, however. Ultimately, this sort of work may reveal to them the weakness of their cognitive mechanisms and impel them to find improved methods... -- Ben ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?[EMAIL PROTECTED]
