Using this for all AF spreading with a default K of 1 and using a higher K with a certain probability. Seems like a cleaner solution then have 2 different spreading mechanisms for the AF.
On Monday, September 12, 2016 at 7:27:50 PM UTC+2, Matthew Ikle wrote: > > Ahh — I was thinking that the default setting for K would be one but that > this would change for specific contexts. > > On Sep 12, 2016, at 10:59 AM, Ben Goertzel <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > > 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] > <javascript:>> 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] <javascript:>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] <javascript:> > . > 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] <javascript:>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] <javascript:> > . > 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] <javascript:>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] <javascript:> > . > 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. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "opencog" group. 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