Sounds like a great idea. But how exactly do you spread K links out? Do you just spread it from your Source to it's Targets and then use these Targets as a new source? Or do you have something more complicated in mind where you spread the STI directly from the Source to an atom K links away?
On Monday, September 12, 2016 at 6:01:21 PM UTC+2, Ben Goertzel wrote: > > A somewhat interesting point came up in discussions w/ Misgana re ECAN > today... > > So far we have been working on two methods of attention allocation: > > -- spreading importance from everything in the AttentionalFocus, > frequently > > -- spreading importance from everything in the Atomspace, but more > slowly (by sampling Atoms from the Atomspace with probability > proportional to STI, and then spreading from each Atom as it's > sampled) > > But we have seen a need now for a third method > > -- iterating through every X in the AttentionalFocus, and spreading > importance K links out from X (where, say, K=2 or 3) > > The practical use-case that made this requirement clear was: rapidly > boosting the importance of question-answers, that contain words which > are in the AF.... The question-answers are ImplicationLinks, which > point to ListLinks, which point to words ... so to get STI to the > ImplicationLink, a word in the AF needs to send STI to the ListLink > which then needs to send STI to the ImplicationLink... > > But more generally one can view this as an importance-spreading agent > aimed at spreading activity from the AttentionalFocus to the "Fringe" > of consciousness -- those things that one can feel at the back of > one's mind, on the edge of one's consciousness ... one is aware they > are there but not quite aware of what they are, but one can generally > with effort pull them into one's awareness... > > Sometimes spreading enough STI into the Fringe will cause something in > the Fringe to get boosted into the AttentionalFocus .... > > -- Ben > > -- > Ben Goertzel, PhD > http://goertzel.org > > Super-benevolent super-intelligence is the thought the Global Brain is > currently struggling to form... > -- 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/89b69232-fe10-48c2-9f1c-faa03c01a90a%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
