Probabilistic logic networks
by Ben Goertzel · first published 2008
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…(narrow) AI projects. OpenCog has released a number of solid demonstrations of current features. And Goertzel isn't hand-waving or bullshitting in his numerous books and scientific papers, for example Probabilistic Logic Networks: A Comprehensive Framework for Uncertain Inference (336 pages). Hawkins has demonstrated very interesting progress with his software and has a commercial application https://www.numenta.com/grok_info.html…
on “Noam Chomsky on Where Artificial Intelligence Went Wrong” ↗…rather than one of needing more knowledge, similar to not being able to find out what happens between planck unit time steps (if anything happens and if the question means anything). Ben Goertzel's book Probabilistic Logic Networks is another resource I'd recommend. Sorry if my branching reply is a bit big, but I'm constantly trying to clarify things for myself as well. ;)
on “Philosophy and the practice of Bayesian statistics [pdf]” ↗…used when you take out all the references to logic and just think about fuzzy sets -- then it's just fuzzy set theory, which is useful when you need to model partial set membership. I enjoyed reading Probabilistic Logic Networks (https://www.amazon.com/Probabilistic-Logic-Networks-Comprehe...) as it introduces a possible framework to sanely deal with different kinds of truth values about different things which aren't necessarily…
on “How to do with probabilities what people say you can’t (1985) [pdf]” ↗…Mind and Machine - John F. Sowa 75. Inside Computer Understanding - Roger C. Schank & Christopher K. Riesbeck 76. Integrating Rules and Connectionism for Robust Commonsense Reasoning - Ron Sun 77. Probabilistic Logic Networks - Ben Goertzel, et al. 78. The Subtlety of Sameness: A Theory and Computer Model of Analogy Making - Robert M. French 79. Analogy Making as Perception - Melanie Mitchell 80. Real World Reasoning -…
on “Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?” ↗…some more specialized, some more general in nature — and connected together in a manner enabling them to (usually) synergetically assist rather than work against each other. http://wiki.opencog.org/w/Probabilistic_Logic_Networks > PLN is a novel conceptual, mathematical and computational approach to uncertain inference. In order to carry out effective reasoning in real-world circumstances, AI software must robustly handle…
on “Noam Chomsky on Where Artificial Intelligence Went Wrong” ↗