The Cognitive Computer: On Language, Learning, and Artificial Intelligence

The authors explain how artificial intelligence involves seeingsomething familiar in a new light. The challenge is to emulatescripts built up over time and experience. There are significantproblems with programs which do not change as the result ofnew knowledge. In addition, there are problems in computerlearning from failure. In practice, it is impossible toarticulate every possible error condition. Even if the knowledgeengineer could articulate every possible error, the next problemis programming the computer system to do a multiplicity ofvalidations. Too many validations built into a system, can causethe throughput to degrade substantially . When throughputsuffers, the overall efficiency of the system collapses.This work is an important advance in artificial intelligence andexpert systems.