dobro@ulowell.UUCP (Chet Dobro) (02/25/86)
I have a question/observation/assumption that may be totally invalid, and I fully expect to get jumped all over about, but here it is: One of the biggest problems AI'ers seem to be having with there machines is one of data access. Now, a human [or other sentient life-form :-)] has a large pool of experience (commonly refered to as a swamp) that he/she/it has access to. It is linked together in many obscure ways (as shown by word-association games) so that for any given thought (or problem) there are a vast number (ususally) of (not-necessarily) connected replies. Thinking of that swamp as a form of data-base, does the problem then boil down to one of finding a path-key that would let you access all of the cross-referances quickly? Thoughts, please? (Hopefully constructive...) Gryphon