Hi Ed, Yeah, well, there is opencog (cog prime??) the abstract architecture, and opencog the actual code base. I presume that the abstract architecture can be mapped to various nifty algos. (e.g. scatter-gather map-reduce type broadcasting that you allude to) although figuring out how to do this well is not easy (we've tried). After that, how to get that into the current code-base is a rather different challenge.
--linas On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 8:43 PM, Ed Pell <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Linas, I believe we are basically in agreement. But I will comment > anyway. I agree that inference and evoking an image give the same > functional result. Inference by step by step traversing many serial nodes > is slow. Evoking an image by broadcasting "cat" to the whole memory system > and potentiating the "cat" related entries followed by broadcasting "mice" > and super potentiating (or triggering) the relevant entries. The first can > take thousands of time steps, the second takes about two time steps. Yes, > additional steps to deal with the several memories thrown up. > > I like "compute close to memory" solutions. > > Ed > > On Thursday, August 25, 2016 at 1:08:35 AM UTC-4, linas wrote: >> >> >> >> On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 7:05 PM, Ed Pell <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> All three of my answers did not come from inference. They came from a >>> lifetime of experience with cats, boxes, and mice. It was 90% memory bases >>> with maybe 10% logic/inference to gue the pieces together. >>> >> >> I suppose. A lot of inference/deduction is subconscious. The word "cat" >> evokes a huge number of mental images, in a human. I sketched the computer >> equivalent of this in the other email -- "evoking an image" is actually an >> exploration of a connected graph of factoids. We can quibble about whether >> this is knowledge or memory or inference -- there are algorithmic >> trade-offs. >> >> --linas >> >>> >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "opencog" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/opencog. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/opencog/CAHrUA364p%2BBqvxXFstnYFe3HZiGpMdpTYgp0iRyvZQ8OfkN%2B-Q%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
