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2014 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

4. Knowledge Science

Author : Tom Addis

Published in: Natural and Artificial Reasoning

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Abstract

Once we have defined and implemented a simple version of intelligence, the problem now arises as to how this might be extended to be useful. One way is to use it in conjunction with the expert knowledge of some professional. To capture this expertise on a computer is particularly important when it comes to rare, expensive or vanishing skills. Intelligence itself is of no real value unless it can be used in the world of human affairs; it is this view that stimulated the idea of an ‘Expert System’. An Expert System is intended to capture the knowledge and skills of an expert in a computer program so that such a program can either replace an expert or amplify a novice’s knowledge to the point of being equivalent to an expert. The questions then arise of how we might harvest this knowledge and represent it in a computer, and how we can use such knowledge.

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Footnotes
1
It is not clear to the author if the process of Abstraction is necessary for some kind of ‘pure’ intelligence where the elements of the world are given or predefined.
 
2
A version of Clarity is available through the author or from http://​www.​clarity-support.​co.​uk/​.
 
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Metadata
Title
Knowledge Science
Author
Tom Addis
Copyright Year
2014
Book
Natural and Artificial Reasoning

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-11285-5

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-11286-2

Copyright Year: 2014

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11286-2_4

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