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Ontologies, Knowledge Graphs, and AI: Getting from “Here” to “There” (Part 2)

Ontologies, Knowledge Graphs, and AI: Getting from “Here” to “There” (Part 2)

A Principled Approach to AI: Representations and Transitions:   In the last post, on “Moving Between Representation Levels: The Key to an AI System (Part 1),” I re-introduced one of the most important and fundamental AI topics: how we can effectively use multiple representation levels. If we’re going to build (or gauge the properties of) an AI system, we need a framework. The notion of representations, and of moving between representation levels, is as fundamental as we can get. In…

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Moving Between Representation Levels – the Key to Making an AI System Work (Part 1)

Moving Between Representation Levels – the Key to Making an AI System Work (Part 1)

Representation Levels: The Key to Understanding AI   “No computation without representation” Jerry Fodor (1975). The Language of Thought, p.34. online access.   One of the key notions underlying artificial intelligence (AI) systems is not only that of knowledge representation, but that a good AI system will successively move disparate pieces of low-level, or signal-level information up the abstraction ladder. For example, an image understanding system will have a low-level component that extracts edges and regions from the image (or…

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"Nonadditive Entropy" – An Excellent Review Article

"Nonadditive Entropy" – An Excellent Review Article

New Advances in Entropy Formulation – “Nonadditive Entropy” Well, chalk it up to being newly returned to the fold – after years of work in knowledge discovery, predictive analysis, neural networks, and sensor fusion, I’m finally returning to my roots and re-invigorating some previous work that involves the Cluster Variation Method. In the course of this, I’ve just learned (as a Janie-come-lately) about the major evolution in thinking about entropy, largely led by Constantino Tsallis. He has an excellent review…

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Equilibrium and Utility: Two Different Realms

Equilibrium and Utility: Two Different Realms

Continuing with Beinhocker’s Origin of Wealth, it is important to distinguish carefully between some of the ideas that Beinhocker is expounding. While overall, he is doing a good job of bringing in many related thoughts and ideas, there is a slight tendency towards “mushing.” In that note, I’d like to suggest that we discern carefully between ideas involving utility (Origins, hardcover; pp. 34 & 37), and equilibrium. On pg. 34, Beinhocker begins a discussion of how utility is an underlying…

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