Hi sorry to reply to older thread, but could one make an expert system whose domain *is* learning itself (supervised or unsupervised)? In theory, I mean.
Like, such an expert system could be filled with knowledge about learning and epistemology, and its inference engine would be taught rules about how to learn that are very domain-general. Then perhaps, once you've laid the framework by teaching the system how to learn in a formal logical way as an expert system (as opposed to more "hidden" and not readily editable machine learning algorithms), I wonder if you could use that "learning expert" to learn other things better. I wonder if an expert system like this (or any other) could be used by a machine learning supersystem, or another expert supersystem--these would be higher-level intelligences then maybe. I've personally been interested in approaching AGI from the formal logical perspective instead of the machine learning probabilistic perspective, so I thought this was interesting post. On Wednesday, March 8, 2017 at 10:05:13 PM UTC-5, Ben Goertzel wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 2:03 AM, Andrei Suiu <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > > > > At the first view it looks like AtomSpace is basically a Knowledge Base, > and > > the MindAgents are Inference Engines, that makes OpenCOG look like an > Expert > > System > > > No. > > Most MindAgents are not inference engines -- e.g. calling clustering, > or ECAN (importance spreading), an "inference engine" is way too much > of a stretch > > Further, "expert systems" typically have their knowledge bases filled > via curated or hand-coded knowledge, not via knowledge obtained by > learning > > Of course, if you stretch the definition far enough you can convince > yourself a human baby is an "expert system" (it contains some expert > knowledge about drinking milk from its mommy, in its knowledge base), > but ... well ... > > > > -- > Ben Goertzel, PhD > http://goertzel.org > > “Our first mothers and fathers … were endowed with intelligence; they > saw and instantly they could see far … they succeeded in knowing all > that there is in the world. When they looked, instantly they saw all > around them, and they contemplated in turn the arch of heaven and the > round face of the earth. … Great was their wisdom …. They were able to > know all.... > > But the Creator and the Maker did not hear this with pleasure. … ‘Are > they not by nature simple creatures of our making? Must they also be > gods? … What if they do not reproduce and multiply?’ > > Then the Heart of Heaven blew mist into their eyes, which clouded > their sight as when a mirror is breathed upon. Their eyes were covered > and they could see only what was close, only that was clear to them.” > > — Popol Vuh (holy book of the ancient Mayas) > -- 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/53a4f7df-df60-4b70-9895-70f6ae72b9ca%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
