Comments on: What is symbolic artificial intelligence? https://bdtechtalks.com/2019/11/18/what-is-symbolic-artificial-intelligence/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-is-symbolic-artificial-intelligence Technology solving problems... and creating new ones Wed, 01 Jul 2020 18:15:49 +0000 hourly 1 By: SHAWN RILEY https://bdtechtalks.com/2019/11/18/what-is-symbolic-artificial-intelligence/comment-page-1/#comment-10734 Wed, 01 Jul 2020 18:15:49 +0000 https://bdtechtalks.com/?p=5954#comment-10734 I’m really surprised this article only describes symbolic AI based on the 1950s to 1990s descriptions when symbolic AI was ‘rules based’ and doesn’t include how symbolic AI transformed in the 2000s to present by moving from rules based to description logic ontology based. Description logic knowledge representation languages encode the meaning and relationships to give the AI a shared understanding of the integrated knowledge. Description logic ontologies enable semantic interoperability of different types and formats of information from different sources for integrated knowledge. The description logic reasoner / inference engine supports deductive logical inference based on the encoded shared understanding.

It’s nearly impossible, unless you’re an expert in multiple separate disciplines, to join data deriving from multiple different sources. Accessing and integrating massive amounts of information from multiple data sources in the absence of ontologies is like trying to find information in library books using only old catalog cards as our guide, when the cards themselves have been dumped on the floor.

Ontologies are data sharing tools that provide for interoperability through a computerized lexicon with a taxonomy and a set of terms and relations with logically structured definitions.

Legacy symbolic AI is rules based, modern symbolic AI is ontology based. Pretty significant difference between the two.

]]> By: Yash https://bdtechtalks.com/2019/11/18/what-is-symbolic-artificial-intelligence/comment-page-1/#comment-9734 Sun, 24 May 2020 08:21:41 +0000 https://bdtechtalks.com/?p=5954#comment-9734 Very well written article. The only doubt I have regarding symbolic AI is that the reasoning process reflects the reasoning process of the creator who makes the symbolic AI program. It is not the reasoning process created by the program itself. If we are working towards AGI this would not help since an ideal AGI would be expected to come up with its own line of reasoning (which we expect to be better than the reasoning capacity of us human beings).

]]> By: Rasika https://bdtechtalks.com/2019/11/18/what-is-symbolic-artificial-intelligence/comment-page-1/#comment-7332 Thu, 05 Dec 2019 05:48:36 +0000 https://bdtechtalks.com/?p=5954#comment-7332 well written article…an increase in the amount of attention, education and awareness associated with these fields is a clear indicator for the need of artificial intelligence

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