Hi Ken, To expand upon Nils characterization of inference control, I recommend reading Garry Sussmans short essay on robust systems. https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/6.945/readings/robust-systems.pdf
It introduces the conceptual background (with references) that explain why inference control is necessary and provides a lot of specific examples from biology, engineering and software design for how to achieve it. Sincerely Jeremy It is also pretty inspiring On Feb 26, 2017 12:49 AM, "'Nil Geisweiller' via opencog" < [email protected]> wrote: Hi Ken, On 02/25/2017 07:42 AM, Ken Kafieh wrote: > Thanks Ben, > > My background in CS is modest as are my programming skills. I have a BA in > computer science. I have worked various IT jobs over the years -- none of > which involved serious programming. Sorry if I gave the impression that I > would code (although down the road I think I would like to). I was just > hoping to put my head together with a buddy and see if we could generate > some ideas -- at a theoretical level. > > I hope its not too naive to hope that i can make some progress in this > area. I just feel that anything that goes on in our brains can be > translated into code. But if I am wrong then at least laying out such a > daunting problem in clear terms and posting it would help invite others to > tackle it. > It's not naive, quite the contrary, it means your mind is at the right place. I see that the wiki page is lacking in content or links regarding that matter http://wiki.opencog.org/w/Inference_Control. We need to remedy that. Here's a synthetic answer till Ben writes a more elaborate one. In one word: learning. In one sentence: Mine the history of inferences and ask the system to come up with inference control patterns that may speed up future inferences. Of course the problem of learning inference control patterns is open-ended, ultimately you need an AGI to address that. But wait, we have one! That's what we're building! Nil -- 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/ms gid/opencog/952561b4-eb4f-21e5-1a15-25d980bc2a5c%40gmail.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/CA%2BHW2JOuhTXdJGun6N7RdXzHCqo46ET3Mt0KFc%2B2waig9UZstw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
