> Rather than introduce a new third method, it seems to me that we could simply > replace the spreading of importance from everything in the AF with the > spreading of importance K links out, where the value of K might be determined > from context.
I just worry that would result in the internal AF STI-spreading happening too slowly, thus screwing up attractor-formation dynamics inside the AF ... After all, spreading 3 links out from X may take 100x or 1000x or 10Kx more effort than spreading only from X, right? >The “third method” really just seems to me to be a generalized version of AF >spreading rather than a new method. As Roman points out, the actual mechanics >of how to spread K links out also needs to be determined. > > —matt > >> On Sep 12, 2016, at 10:01 AM, Ben Goertzel <[email protected]> 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/CACYTDBdGNipWfnguuZY%2ByyGtnCxAKoXfqoTiYMSsGcqj0rQ5Mw%40mail.gmail.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > 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/1F463D95-D0D5-4B95-9D4D-092C0EEFDDFC%40gmail.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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/CACYTDBepQVSPMh__wu%2BR2yUjQmCT6ofUr0enxcJttGM0Xbamzg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
