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MSG: *MSG 936
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Date: 12/13/81 22:51:03
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From: KRD at MIT-AI
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The following notice appeared on the SAIL bboard, and is posted here
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without comment.
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-- KRD
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Special AI Seminar
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Tuesday, November 16, 1:15pm
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Margaret Jacks 252
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Speaker: John Harwood
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University of California at Orland
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Title: IMMANUEL: A Wisdom Based System for Discovering
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Deep Philosophical Ideas
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Abstract:
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It has been widely recognized that AI programs require expert knowledge in
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order to perform well in complex domains. But knowledge alone is not
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sufficient for some applications; wisdom is needed as well. Accordingly,
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we have developed a new approach to artificial intelligence which we call
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"wisdom engineering". As a test of our ideas, we have written IMMANUEL, a
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wisdom based system for the task domain of western philosophical thought.
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IMMANUEL was supplied initially with 200 wisdom units which contained
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wisdom about such elementary concepts as mind, matter, being, nothingness,
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and so forth. IMMANUEL was then allowed to run freely, guided by the
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heuristic rules contained in its heterarchically organized meta wisdom
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base. IMMANUEL succeeded in rediscovering most of the important
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philosophical ideas developed in western culture over the course of the
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last 25 centuries, including those underlying Plato's theory of
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government, Kant's metaphysics, Nietzsche's theory of value, and Husserl's
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phenomenology. In this seminar, we will describe IMMANUEL's achievements
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and internal architecture. We will also briefly discuss our recent
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efforts to apply wisdom engineering to oil exploration.
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