The subtlety of sameness
by Robert M. French · first published 1995
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The research described in this book is based on the premise that human analogy-making is an extension of our constant background process of perceiving - in other words, that analogy-making and the perception of sameness are two sides of the same coin. At the heart of the author's theory and computer model of analogy-making is the idea that the building-up and the manipulation of representations are inseparable aspects of mental functioning, in contrast to traditional AI models of high-level cognitive processes, which have almost always depended on a clean separation. A computer program calle
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…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 - Ben Goertzel, et al. 81. Artificial General Intelligence…
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on “The Computer Scientist Training AI to Think with Analogies” ↗